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WHAT IS A .PE DOMAIN

.pe Domain: Peru's Official Country Code Extension

.pe is the country code extension of Peru, entered in the root zone on 25 November 1991. Its registry is neither a ministry nor a commercial company but Red Científica Peruana, the civil-society body that ran the country's first internet service; it operates the registry from Lima under the names NIC.PE and Punto.pe. The current policy set took effect on 8 December 2007 and came out of a multi-stakeholder commission created in 2005, where government, industry, academia and civil society drafted the rules together.

Registration is unconditionally open. The policy defines an eligible holder as «any natural or legal person, national or foreign», and asks for no residency, no local agent, no tax number and no documents; there is also no cap on how many names one holder may take. A label may run from one to 63 characters and, besides letters, digits and hyphens, it may contain the Spanish characters á, é, í, ó, ú and ñ. For a commercial signal .com.pe is open, and institutional projects can use .org.pe.

You can register for one to five years, and the contract renews automatically as long as the fee is paid on time. Ownership can change hands, and the registry has capped what that costs: the transfer fee may not exceed one year of maintenance at the moment of the transfer. Switching provider does not touch the name either — a separate clause states that the holder keeps the same domain regardless of which registrar handles it. Check your shortlist on the domain name search page.

Suspended on the expiry date, deleted on day thirty: If the renewal is not paid, the name is suspended on its expiry date, so the website and mail stop that same day. A single 30-calendar-day window then runs: pay inside it and the name comes back, miss it and the name is deleted and returns to the open pool. Unlike many extensions there is no second redemption stage and no separate recovery fee, so the whole calendar is that one window.
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.PE Domain at a Glance

  • Registry Red Científica Peruana — NIC.PE / Punto.pe, Lima
  • Root zone entry 25 November 1991
  • Second level Opened to direct registration on 8 December 2007
  • Dispute providers WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center, Cibertribunal Peruano
  • Lookup channel kero.yachay.pe; the response carries no expiry date
  • Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .pe domain
  • Country Peru
  • Character Length 3 - 63 characters
  • Registration Period 1 - 5 years
  • Name Server Count 2 - 13 servers

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.pe 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.

  • Transfer

    $96.49 /year
  • Renewal

    $76.99 /year
  • Restore

    $175.50
  • Late Renewal

    $13.98

Included With Every .pe Domain

  • 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.

  • Domain lock

    While the lock is on, nobody can move your domain to another registrar without your approval.

  • Domain forwarding

    Point the domain at your existing site, a campaign page or a social profile — at no extra cost.

  • Free WHOIS privacy

    Your name, address and phone stay out of public WHOIS records, which cuts down spam and scam calls.

.pe Domain Lifecycle

Active registration term 1 - 5 years You choose it at registration
Grace period 30 days First window to renew after expiry

What happens day by day after it expires

Day 0 is the domain's expiry date

In short: for .pe 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 .pe, day by day. One thing never changes, whichever extension you hold: renewing before the expiry date is always the cheapest and safest route.

What happens day by day after it expires Lifecycle diagram for .pe, left to right: the name starts out available; once registered it is yours for the term you chose and the site and e-mail work; day 0 is the expiry date, after which the name is open to anyone again. Renewal possible Open to anyone Available Registered 1 - 5 years Open to anyone EXPIRED Day 0 Expiry date Website and e-mail work
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Domain Is Available (Available)

Open-ended

A .pe 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)

1 - 5 years

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.

Domain Is Available Again

Open-ended

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.

.pe Domain Specifications and Registration Rules

Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.

.pe Domain Registration

  • Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .pe domain
  • Country Peru
  • Character Length 3 - 63 characters
  • Registration Period 1 - 5 years
  • Name Server Count 2 - 13 servers

.pe Domain Support

  • IDN Support No
  • Transfer Support Yes
  • Late Renewal Support Yes

Frequently Asked Questions About .pe Domains

The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.

  • No. The policy defines an eligible holder as «any natural or legal person, national or foreign», and asks for no residency, no local agent, no Peruvian tax number and no documents. There is no cap on how many names one holder may take, and applications are handled first come, first served. The registry's only condition is accurate data: it may ask you to confirm your details at any time, and false information is grounds for suspension or cancellation.

  • One to five years. The registry's fee schedule lists all five terms separately, and the registration contract defines the term as «the registration period requested», renewing automatically once payment arrives on time. The practical value of a longer term is that it thins out your renewal calendar: with .pe the expiry date brings immediate suspension, and after that you only have a single thirty-day window.

  • One character. The registry's policy page states it in as many words: minimum 1, maximum 63 characters. Measurement confirms it — the single-letter a.pe is registered, and so is the two-letter ab.pe. Names may use letters, digits and hyphens; a hyphen may not start or end the label, and it may not sit in the third and fourth positions at the same time. A registered name can never be edited afterwards, so a different name means a new registration.

  • Yes. The syntax rule expressly allows á, é, í, ó, ú and ñ, and the registry lists IDN registration among the changes its 2007 reform brought in. Measurement shows this is not just on paper: españa.pe and perú.pe are live registrations, and the lookup response carries a separate Unicode line for them. In technical records the name appears in Punycode form with the xn-- prefix, while browsers show the readable version.

  • The name is suspended on its expiry date, so the website and mail stop that same day. A single 30-calendar-day window then runs: pay inside it and the name is restored, miss it and the name is deleted and becomes available to anyone. There is no second redemption stage and no separate recovery fee. That makes leaving the renewal to the expiry date riskier on .pe than on many other extensions.

  • Ownership changes hands in four ways: at the holder's own request, through a will or a notarial declaration of heirs, by administrative or court order, or by a decision of a dispute resolution centre. The new holder must accept the registration contract. The cost falls on the outgoing holder and the registry has capped it: the transfer fee may not exceed one year of maintenance at the moment of transfer. Changing registrar is a separate operation and leaves the name untouched — start it from the domain transfer page.

  • The registry's lookup server returns the registrar, the status codes, the holder's name, the administrative contact e-mail and the name servers. It has one unusual gap: the response carries no creation or expiry date at all, so you cannot build renewal tracking on WHOIS alone. There is no privacy service either — the policy states that the applicant's name and contact details are freely accessible. You can run the query from the whois search page.

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