Enter the Saint Vincent and the Grenadines market with a .VC Domain

No. The registry publishes no eligibility rule, and a measurement on 15 August 2026 found no gatekeeping either: names in this zone are held through international retail registrars including GoDaddy, Tucows, Dynadot, Name.com, Sav.com and Key-Systems of Germany. No residency, local agent, tax number or document is asked for. The only restricted space is the state's own names: entries such as gov.vc sit in the registry's own account behind server locks.

From one to ten years. The registry publishes no fee or term schedule, but the registrations themselves can be measured: abc.com.vc in the same registry was created on 5 July 2024 and expires on 5 July 2034, so a full ten-year term has actually been bought. The practical value of a longer term is a thinner renewal calendar. Because the registry publishes no post-expiry timetable, leaving a .vc renewal to the last day is worth avoiding.

The shortest length proven by measurement is two characters. The two-letter ab.vc was created through GoDaddy in 2021 and is still registered, and certificate logs show 47 separate two-character names in this zone. Single characters look different: eight of them were queried (a, e, o, q, v, x, z and 1) and all eight came back free, while none of the 2,057 names in the logs is a single character. Since the registry publishes no reserved-name list, whether these are genuinely free or held back cannot be told from outside.

The registry's lookup server is whois.identitydigital.services and its answer is thin: it returns the domain name, the registrar and its lookup address, the creation and expiry dates, the status codes, the name servers and a DNSSEC line. There is not a single registrant field — no name, no organisation, no country, no e-mail. Privacy here is therefore not an add-on you buy but the registry's default behaviour. You can run the query from the whois search page.

Transfers run between registrars over the registry's EPP platform; the registry publishes no separate transfer procedure. In practice the name's transfer lock must be lifted and the authorisation code obtained from the current provider: in the 15 August 2026 measurement many names in this zone carried clientTransferProhibited, so the lock is in common use. Names held by the registry itself carry a server-level transfer lock and cannot be moved. Start the process on the domain transfer page.

The registry publishes no post-expiry timetable, so no promise about a number of days can honestly be made. What can be measured is that the chain does operate: on 15 August 2026 names in this zone showed the autoRenewPeriod status, meaning an auto-renew grace period is applied, while names on serverHold or inactive are not published in DNS at all. The practical result: an expired name takes its website and mail down with it, and the length of any recovery window is set by your registrar's terms rather than by a registry text.

No. IANA's IDN Practices Repository is where an extension publishes the scripts it accepts; on 15 August 2026 its 11,116 entries were scanned and not one of them covers .vc. Identity Digital's general IDN policy never names .vc either. Accented or non-Latin letters therefore cannot be used in a .vc name, and a brand containing them has to be written with its plain Latin equivalents.

The registry publishes no dispute resolution procedure. WIPO's list of country extensions it serves does not include .vc either: the list runs straight from Venezuela's .ve entry to the British Virgin Islands' .vg entry. That means a trademark-based claim cannot be settled through the fast arbitration route familiar from generic extensions; it goes through ordinary legal channels and your registrar's contract. If you expect a conflict, describe it to us before registering via the contact page.