Enter Seychelles market with a .COM.SC Domain

No. The rules describe this space as being for companies and commercial business organisations, but no paperwork is attached to that description: the registration agreement states plainly that the registry does not screen applications, and no published text asks for a company register extract, a tax number or a trading licence. An identifiable individual over the age of eighteen may register, as may any legally recognised entity; there is no establishment requirement in Seychelles, no local address and no trustee. The registry asks only for correct registrant details: your legal name, a postal address that reaches you, an email address you actually read, and a phone number carrying its country code. Accuracy is an absolute condition, and false details are grounds for suspending the name without notice.

It depends on the length of the name and what you want it for. .sc is registered directly at the second level, and short names there run through a separate channel: one and two character strings are either taken or routed into the registry's premium tier. Under .com.sc the same strings come back plainly available in an ordinary lookup, so a short, memorable name is easier to secure here. On the other hand .sc is the busier and more recognisable form. The two levels are separate objects: you can take one, the other, or the same name at both, and neither blocks the other.

Yes. com.sc is not an ordinary name served from inside the parent zone but a zone delegated in its own right and signed with its own key. The registry's whois server returns a full record for names in it: registrar, creation and expiry dates, status codes and name servers. Registration runs through accredited registrars in the standard way. The practical consequence is that sitting at the third level does not turn your name into an intermediary's subdomain service — renewal, transfer and name server changes work as they do under any extension, and your record stands as a separate object in the registry's own database.

Only the letters a-z, the digits 0-9 and the hyphen. The rules set out that character set and forbid a hyphen at the start or the end of a name; measurement confirms it, since queries carrying a leading or trailing hyphen were rejected by the registry as malformed. Local alphabets are not supported — accented, Cyrillic and other non-Latin characters cannot be used here, so the name has to be written in Latin script. One further detail matters commercially: the hyphenated and unhyphenated forms are two separate names. The rules say so and measurement bears it out, as the hyphenated version of a registered name can still be free, so brand protection means taking both spellings.

Yes. The com.sc zone is signed and carries its own chain of keys, separate from the one used by the parent zone, so validation for names here works independently. The registry accepts the signature record submitted by your registrar and writes it into the zone, which means your own name can be signed. In the August 2026 measurement every record examined in this zone came back unsigned, so DNSSEC is not switched on by default — you have to ask for it explicitly through your registrar or your domain control panel. A signed zone makes it markedly harder for forged answers to send your name to another server.

The registrant's personal details are not shown. In the registry's whois output the fields of the registrant, admin and technical contact blocks come back redacted; what stays public is the domain itself, the registrar's details, the abuse contact, the creation and expiry dates, the status codes, the name servers and the dnssec flag. There is one exception, for names held by a legal entity: the organisation and country fields can remain visible. This masking is not a privacy product you buy but the operator's default data regime, and access to the withheld data runs through a reasoned request procedure. See what your own record exposes on the whois search page.

Two grounds stand out. The first is the accuracy of your contact data: the registration agreement treats correct details as an absolute condition of registration and names false information as a reason to suspend without prior notice. The second is the acceptable use policy; on a complaint, the registry may suspend or terminate the service at its own discretion. A suspension stops the name from resolving — your site and mail go dark in practice even though the name is still yours. In the August 2026 measurement a share of the current records in this zone sat in exactly that state, so the mechanism is not merely on paper. Keep your details current and answer mail from the registry.

Trademark disputes run under the UDRP, and this space is covered: the registration agreement states that the policies apply to all domains and sub-level domains ending in .sc, and it adopts the UDRP and the WIPO supplemental rules by reference. The complaint procedure familiar from generic extensions therefore applies here too, and a decision can go as far as transferring or cancelling the name. Abuse claims that are not about trademarks take a different route, through the registry's own acceptable use policy: a complaint form is filed, a remedy is sought first where the matter is not urgent, and the name may then be suspended or deleted. Because applications are never screened in advance, a claim can only surface after registration.

One year at minimum, and longer terms are possible: single registrations running as long as seven years were measured in this zone. The registration agreement does not fix the term to one number — the assignment lasts for whatever period the accepted application specifies. When the term ends the name is not released at once. A grace window runs first, the name then passes into a redemption period, and at that stage it no longer resolves but can still be recovered. Once redemption ends the name is deleted and returns to general availability. The registry does not publish the day counts, so do not work them out yourself: renew before the expiry date.