.org.ps Domain Registration: Palestine's Non-Profit Zone
.org.ps is one of the namespaces under Palestine's country code extension .ps, and in practice it is where the names of associations, foundations, professional bodies and local authorities gather. In the root zone record the manager is the Government Computer Center of the Ministry of Telecommunications & Information Technology in Ramallah; the zone is operated by the Palestinian National Internet Naming Authority, PNINA, and registrations run only through its certified registrars. The oldest measured registration is wac.org.ps from 20 April 2004, with ppc.org.ps dating from the same year.
Despite the name, you do not have to be a registered association or foundation to hold one. The registry's registration policy defines .org.ps in the same sentence as .com.ps and .net.ps, covering commercial companies, service providers, non-governmental organisations and individuals together; proof of organisation type is asked for only in the education, school and government namespaces. The non-profit association is therefore a convention rather than a requirement — but a strong convention, and it shapes how the namespace reads.
The zone is small, which makes your odds of finding a free label good. On 15 August 2026 certificate transparency logs held 40 distinct names under .org.ps against 133 under its sibling .com.ps. On the same day generic words such as news, shop, help, charity, aid and health were all free here, and the shortest registered names measured three letters. Try your organisation's acronym on the domain name search page and complete the registration there.
.ORG.PS Domain at a Glance
- Registry PNINA — root zone manager MTIT, Ramallah
- Scope in the registration policy No non-profit requirement; defined in the same sentence as .com.ps and .net.ps
- Measured active name count 40 distinct names (15 August 2026, certificate logs)
- Oldest measured registration wac.org.ps — 20 April 2004
- Dispute procedure UDRP-based; panel run by the registry, final word with Palestinian courts
- Lookup channel whois.registry.ps; no RDAP service
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .org.ps domain
- Country Palestine
- Character Length 3 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.org.ps Domain Prices — No Surprise Fees
Registration, transfer and renewal fees are listed separately. The renewal price can differ from the first-year price, so you see both up front.
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New Registration
$49.90 /year -
Transfer
$49.99 /year -
Renewal
$54.99 /year -
Restore
$119.90
Included With Every .org.ps Domain
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Free DNS management
Change A, MX, TXT and CNAME records yourself from the panel — no waiting on anyone when you move a site or mailbox.
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Domain lock
While the lock is on, nobody can move your domain to another registrar without your approval.
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Domain forwarding
Point the domain at your existing site, a campaign page or a social profile — at no extra cost.
.org.ps Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: for .org.ps the post-expiry timeline is set by the registry, so it differs from one extension to the next. The diagram below shows the windows that actually apply to .org.ps, day by day. One thing never changes, whichever extension you hold: renewing before the expiry date is always the cheapest and safest route.
Domain Is Available (Available)
A .org.ps address at this stage has not been taken yet, and it goes to whoever registers first. Check the name you have in mind — if it is free, it can be yours within minutes.
Domain Is Active (Active Period)
Once registration is complete, the domain is registered to you for the term you selected. You can renew at any point before it expires to keep it active, or switch on auto-renewal so you never have to watch the date.
Redemption Period (Redemption Period)
The domain is not released the moment it expires — during this window it is still yours and can be recovered. Some extensions charge an extra restore fee at this stage, so renewing before expiry is always the cheaper route.
Domain Is Available Again
Once deletion completes, the domain leaves the system and anyone can register it — popular names are often taken the same minute by someone watching. Keep auto-renewal on so a name you care about never gets this far.
.org.ps Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.org.ps Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .org.ps domain
- Country Palestine
- Character Length 3 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.org.ps Domain Support
- IDN Support No
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support No
Frequently Asked Questions About .org.ps Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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No. The registry's registration policy defines .org.ps in the same sentence as .com.ps and .net.ps, covering commercial companies, network companies, internet service providers, non-governmental organisations and individuals together. No articles of association and no charitable status document are asked for; proof of organisation type matters only in the education, school and government namespaces. Measurement confirms it: on 15 August 2026 many holders in this zone were private individuals with the organisation field left empty — even a municipality's name is held by a natural person.
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On paper there is none: the registration policy defines both in a single sentence, and the same dispute procedure and the same expiry chain apply. The difference lies in scale and convention. On 15 August 2026 certificate transparency logs held 40 distinct names under .org.ps and 133 under .com.ps. Usage separates them too: associations, foundations, chambers and municipalities sit on .org.ps, while .com.ps carries defensive brand registrations alongside local commerce. The choice is therefore about identity and perception rather than law.
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The registry rulebook sets a minimum of one and a maximum of sixty-three alphanumeric characters and defines no separate floor for .org.ps; the permitted set is a–z and 0–9, with the hyphen allowed only in the middle. As for practice: on 15 August 2026 the shortest registered names measured in this zone were three letters, and every one- and two-letter label queried came back free with no reservation notice attached. Short labels here are not blocked, they simply have not been claimed yet.
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On the expiry date the name enters a thirty-day holding period. The registry is explicit: the name stays reserved during that time but is not written into the zone file, so the website stops loading and any e-mail on the domain stops working. The outage begins on day one, not on day thirty. To renew you first have to restore the name through your registrar and pay a separate reactivation fee; miss the window and the name is deleted and released again. For association names that run on annual renewals, tying that calendar to an organisational mailbox rather than one person is the safer arrangement.
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Almost all of them. The registry offers no privacy service and states directly that information about who is responsible for a domain name is publicly available. A lookup returns the creation date, the last update, the expiry date, the registrar, the status codes, the name servers, and the name, address, telephone and e-mail of the registrant plus the administrative, technical and billing contacts. In the 15 August 2026 measurement local records in this zone returned that data in the clear. You can check how your own record appears from the whois search page.
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A change of registrar works in both directions. The rulebook recognises two routes: either the gaining registrar starts the request and the holder confirms within seven days of the registry's notification, or the holder starts it and the gaining registrar confirms within seven days. Miss the window and the request lapses. A change of owner is a separate matter: the rulebook treats the delegation as personal and does not allow the name to be sold on its own. If you are taking over an association's name, start the process from the domain transfer page.
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