.org.es Domain: Spain's Zone for Organisations
.org.es is the zone inside .es, Spain's country namespace, where associations, foundations and community projects settle. It has no separate registry: the same registry, the same rule set and the same network of registrars apply. That registry is Red.es in Madrid — a public business entity answering directly to the state. The zone is small: by the registry's July 2026 report .org.es held 9,015 registrations, against 83,763 in com.es and 2,126,526 directly under .es in the same month.
Starting a name with «org» creates no eligibility condition: no document showing that you are non-profit is required, and an available name is assigned automatically — the only zones excluded from automatic assignment are .gob.es and .edu.es. The applicable test is the same as for .es: any natural or legal person with interests in or links to Spain may obtain the name. The registry defines that link through three situations, one of which is wanting to direct services wholly or partly at the Spanish market.
The zone offers two practical advantages. The first is density: with 9,015 registrations it makes up barely four names in a thousand across the namespace, so short and meaningful names stand a good chance of still being free. The second is level: because .org.es counts as third level, the rules allow shorter names here. Term options are the same across the namespace: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 10 years. For a commercial face compare .com.es, and for an address that speaks to the whole country compare .es.
.ORG.ES Domain at a Glance
- Registry Red.es — public business entity, Madrid
- Position of the zone A third-level zone within the .es namespace
- Founding rules Plan Nacional de nombres de dominio bajo el «.es»
- Selectable terms 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 10 years (nothing in between)
- Names registered 9,015 in July 2026 — 0.41% of the namespace
- Dispute threshold An entity name registered in Spain also counts as a «Prior Right»
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .org.es domain
- Country Spain
- Character Length 2 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.org.es 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
$20.00 /year -
Transfer
$0.00 /year -
Renewal
$22.00 /year -
Restore
$74.90 -
Late Renewal
$4.00
Included With Every .org.es 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 forwarding
Point the domain at your existing site, a campaign page or a social profile — at no extra cost.
.org.es Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: for .org.es 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.es, 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.es 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.
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.es Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.org.es Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .org.es domain
- Country Spain
- Character Length 2 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.org.es Domain Support
- IDN Support Yes
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .org.es Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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No. Starting a name with «org» does not require any document showing that you are non-profit, and an available name is assigned automatically; the only zones excluded from automatic assignment are .gob.es and .edu.es. The applicable test is the same as across the namespace: any natural or legal person with interests in or links to Spain may obtain the name. The registry defines that link through three situations, one of which is wanting to direct services wholly or partly at the Spanish market.
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The zone is sparse, so the odds are good. By the registry's July 2026 report .org.es held 9,015 registrations, against 83,763 in com.es and 2,126,526 directly under .es that same month. That makes this zone about four names in a thousand across the namespace. Being a third-level zone, it also allows shorter names under the rules. The quickest way to check a candidate is the domain name search screen.
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A registered trademark is not required. To enter the registry's out-of-court procedure you must hold a Prior Right, and the first item on that list is «entity names validly registered in Spain». So you can run the procedure on the strength of your registered association or foundation name even without a trademark. The list also covers designations of origin, trade names, registered trademarks, well-known civil names and the official names of Spanish public administrations. You must additionally prove the registration is speculative or abusive.
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The options are discrete across the whole namespace. The registry writes that renewal may be taken for 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 10 years; 6, 7, 8 and 9 years cannot be selected, and the only step beyond five years is straight to ten. For a long-running association site that means jumping from five years directly to ten. Renewal can be done at any point in the year; the single condition is that the term in force must not exceed ten years.
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The administrative contact. The registry states that if the name is managed by a registrar and that registrar has not requested renewal five days before expiry, it notifies the administrative contact directly; where the name is managed through the registry itself, that notice goes out ten days before expiry. The administrative contact is, in the registry's own definition, the individual the holder has chosen with sufficient power of representation to manage the name. In associations and foundations, that person leaving creates a risk the notice never lands.
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Anyone who can show a legitimate interest may start the procedure. The six published grounds are: no interests in or links to Spain; a name composed only of surnames whose holder has no direct connection to it; false or incorrect data in the record whose accuracy cannot be proven; failure to observe the technical rules; breach of the syntax rules; and a name declared to be of general interest by decision of the President of Red.es. The holder is given a right of reply.
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Yes, and the rule is the same across the namespace. The Plan Nacional expressly lists multilingual characters among those permitted: á, à, é, è, í, ï, ó, ò, ú, ü, ñ, ç and the Catalan geminated l·l. To these are added the letters a-z, the digits 0-9 and the hyphen, which may be neither the first nor the last character; case is not distinguished. For organisations working in regional languages, that means the name can be spelled correctly.
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