Enter the Sudan market with a .COM.SD Domain

The registry's registration policy asks for one of two things. Either you produce a valid trade licence issued by a competent authority in Sudan, or you evidence a trademark registered in Sudan. The evidence goes not to the registry itself but to the accredited registrar handling the order, which must see it before forwarding the application. The same policy describes com.sd names as «official domain names for commercial enterprises in Sudan», so the space is deliberately reserved for trading activity. If you hold neither document, looking at the second-level .sd space before you order will save you time.

Both sit with the same registry under the same rulebook; the difference is level and eligibility. .sd is registered directly at the second level, and there the rules ask for no documents and no qualifying conditions at all. .com.sd sits at the third level and is reserved for commercial enterprises in Sudan: a trade licence or a trademark certificate is required. Technically the two are not separate zones; measurement shows com.sd carries no delegation of its own and that names are served straight from the .sd zone file. Because the rules treat the levels as independent, you may hold the same name at both.

The eligibility condition attaches to the country, not to your registrar. The rules require the trade licence to be issued by a competent authority in Sudan, or the trademark to be registered in Sudan, and they also expect the application to go through a registrar in the area of your workplace and main activity. Against that, the registry's own published list of accredited registrars holds five firms, three of them established outside Sudan, so ordering from abroad is possible in practice. What decides the case is this: without a Sudanese trade licence or trademark to show, your registration will be refused or can be deleted later.

Yes, because eligibility runs for the whole term. The registry's complaints policy states that the holder must be able to prove eligibility throughout the licence period and that the data must be current at renewal. Where the registrar cannot verify that the company or the trademark still exists, it must ask the registry to delete the name; the registry does give you a fair opportunity to update your details before any deletion. Beyond that, a registration can also be cancelled for false or incomplete statements, for breaching the reserved-word list, or for conflicting with Sudanese law. Track your licence and trademark renewals alongside the domain.

There are two separate operations. For a change of registrar you request the name's authorisation password; you choose it at registration, and if you do not, the registrar sets one, must tell you immediately, and on request must hand it over within two working days. A change of holder is a separate, documented procedure: a written or signed online application is required, telephone requests are not accepted, the new holder signs an undertaking form and inherits the remaining term. The rule specific to com.sd is strict: only a party who also meets the eligibility conditions may take the name over. Start on the domain transfer page.

No. The registry's whois and RDAP output shows only the domain name, the registry domain identifier, the creation, update and expiry dates, the status codes, the name servers and the registrar's details; the holder's name, address, telephone and email do not appear at all, not even as a redacted field. Do not read that as a guarantee: the registrant agreement gives the registry the right to disclose information about the name to third parties, and in eligibility-restricted spaces the registry collects additional data from you. Check your own record on the whois search page.

The registry maintains a separate conflict resolution policy and names the default forum outright: the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center. The policy tests three elements: whether the name is identical or confusingly similar to a mark in which the complainant has rights, whether the holder lacks rights or a legitimate interest in it, and whether the name was registered or is being used in bad faith. The provider sets the fee and the complainant pays it up front; if the panel decides for the complainant, the costs are split equally. Separately, the registry itself examines complaints about eligibility under its own procedure and can delete the name.