Buy .sr Domain Name

No. Telesur's registration regulations state that a domain name may be applied for on behalf of anyone domiciled or residing anywhere in the world, so a company abroad, a sole trader and a private individual all apply on the same terms. No local partner, trustee or Surinamese entity is required, and measurement bears this out: .sr names held by foreign owners have been registered for years. One condition sits in a separate clause. An applicant not resident or domiciled in Suriname must designate an address in Suriname where written documents can be delivered and a summons, if any, issued. That address does not affect ownership; it only fixes where legal service lands.

Three characters. The technical requirements appendix to the regulations states plainly that a domain name must consist of at least three characters, and it gives the reason: to prevent confusion with top-level domain names. The same clause caps the maximum at sixty-three. A caution is worth adding. Some lookup screens will report a two-letter .sr name as available, because the query layer does not enforce this length rule, but such a name is refused at registration. The appendix adds two more prohibitions: a name may not consist only of figures, and a hyphen may appear only between two letters or figures, never at the start or end.

Yes, and that is the default position of the contract. Telesur's terms state that the agreement is each time renewed automatically for the term you selected when applying. If you do not want that, you have to say so: the cancellation notice must reach Telesur at least one month before the registration period ends, must quote your customer number, and must be sent by you personally by letter, fax or email. Cancelling early gives no right to a refund of amounts already paid. In practice this means that without a reminder set about six weeks before expiry, an invoice for a new term on a name you had abandoned is entirely normal.

At least two: one primary and one or more secondary servers. The technical requirements appendix asks that they preferably sit on different networks and insists they be reachable from the entire internet. The text states explicitly that the servers are checked before the domain is registered, and that SOA, NS and MX records may point only to hosts that have an A record, never to a CNAME. The obligation runs for the whole term. Where a name no longer meets the technical requirements, the registry may deny its use and delete the registration, so servers that go dark put the name itself at risk, not merely the website.

No. In the registry's whois and RDAP responses every personal field, including the holder's name, address, city, country, email and telephone, comes back as REDACTED FOR PRIVACY, and the answer closes with a note directing enquirers to the registrar. This is not a privacy service you buy; it is the registry's default behaviour, so no extra product is needed. There are two practical consequences: your own details never appear on public lookup screens, and identifying the holder of somebody else's .sr name through whois is not possible either. You can review your own records on the whois search page.

A registrar transfer in the sense generic extensions use does not exist here. The regulations contain no clause on authorisation codes, transfer locks or a procedure for moving a name between providers, and measurement shows a single registration channel: every name examined sits with the same operator. What can change hands is ownership, and that follows its own route. The Modification of Domain Name Holder form prescribed by Telesur is signed by both the current and the new holder, and the new holder additionally submits a signed registration contract. Write to us through the contact page for the details of that procedure.

Not through the UDRP, but through arbitration governed by Surinamese law. The regulations provide that disputes are settled by arbitration under articles 500 and following of the Suriname Code of Civil Procedure: within fourteen days of the notification the parties agree on a three-member tribunal, and failing agreement the tribunal is appointed by the sub-district judge. A complainant must prove three things together: that the name closely resembles a mark or trade name protected under the laws of Suriname, that the holder has no right or legitimate interest in it, and that it was registered or is used in bad faith. The name is frozen while proceedings run.

No. The technical requirements appendix lists the permitted character set as a closed set: letters, figures and the hyphen only. Nowhere in the regulations is there a clause on local scripts, punycode or internationalised domain names, and the registry publishes no character table. Accented or non-Latin characters therefore cannot be registered under this extension. In practice the restriction bites lightly, because the official language of Suriname is Dutch and Dutch is written in plain ASCII letters, so names in the local market are built from the same set. If your brand carries accents, register the ASCII form of the name.