Buy .com.qa Domain Name

A licence or a trademark — one of the two is required. Article 17.2.1 of the registration policy asks the applicant to hold either a valid trade licence issued in the State of Qatar by the Ministry of Business and Trade or the competent authorities, or to be the registered holder of a trademark registered in the State of Qatar; article 17.2.1.3 then requires that proof to be provided to the registrar. A trade registry record or a trademark from another country does not satisfy the article.

In practice, no. The policy ties the zone to Qatar in three places: the documents must be Qatari, the application may be filed only through accredited registrars whose principal place of business is in Qatar (article 17.2.2), and the registered name must be hosted inside Qatar (article 17.2.3). If you are applying from abroad, the open door in the Qatari namespace is second-level .qa, where article 17.1 asks for no documents and no eligibility.

Yes. Article 17.2.3 is a single sentence: any registered third-level domain name ending in com.qa must be hosted locally within the State of Qatar. The condition does not exist for the sibling second-level .qa — no article of the policy imposes a server location there. So if your current infrastructure sits abroad, com.qa is the one zone that requires a move, and that is worth planning before you order.

No. Article 17.2.1 reserves com.qa for «commercial entities duly registered in the State of Qatar». Individuals have their own zone: article 17.4 opens name.qa to natural persons who are citizens or residents of Qatar, and asks for a valid passport, a Qatari ID or a residency permit. An applicant with none of those documents still has second-level .qa, which is open to everyone.

Articles 5 and 24.1 give every zone the same five options: one, two, three, four or five years, and renewals use the same set. Article 24.3 allows early renewal as long as the resulting total licence period does not exceed five years plus ninety days. After any registration or renewal there is a three-calendar-day correction window, and a transaction cancelled inside it is refunded to the registrar.

Yes, you have a 30-day window. Under article 25, once the expiry date passes the name enters «Expired Hold»: it is removed from the DNS and cannot be updated, but it can be renewed and transferred to another registrar. That state lasts exactly 30 calendar days; the name then enters a non-recoverable state and is deleted a day later. Since site and email stop the moment the hold begins, tracking the expiry date beats relying on the window.

Yes, and this detail is easy to miss. Article 19.3 requires applicants to meet the registry's requirements both when submitting the application and for the term of the licence, while article 19.2 obliges the registrar to check compliance before submitting anything to the registry system. If your trade licence or trademark lapses during the licence period, that can become grounds for suspending or cancelling the name.