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WHAT IS A .TJ DOMAIN

.tj Domain: Tajikistan's Official Country Code Extension

.tj is the country code top-level domain of Tajikistan and entered the root zone on 11 December 1997. The zone is run today by the Information Technology Center (ITC), which sits within the Executive Office of the President of Tajikistan — the registry is an arm of the state, not a private company. For its first years the domain was administered from outside the country; only after an ICANN-approved handover did it pass into Tajik hands, in 2004. The registration policy in force carries the same date, 1 January 2004. The registry takes no applications directly; you register through an accredited registrar.

On eligibility .tj is close to a blank page: the policy states that any natural or legal person, Tajik or foreign, may apply, and it sets no cap on how many names one holder may take. You do not need a company in Tajikistan, a local address or a trustee. One nuance is worth knowing: where two claims are otherwise equal, the registry gives priority to applicants resident in the country. Businesses that want a commercial signal have a second option in .com.tj, which runs under the same registry and the same rules, one level deeper.

Two details are worth settling before you order. The first is length: every two-letter .tj name is held back by the registry as reserved, so in practice the shortest name you can take is three characters. The second is privacy: the registry publishes the holder's name, street address, telephone number and email with no redaction at all, so choose the contact details you submit accordingly. Names may contain only Latin letters, digits and hyphens — Cyrillic .tj names are not possible. Check whether the name you want is free on the domain name search page.

Your registration details are published in full: The Tajik registry's whois output hides nothing: the holder's name or company, street address, city, postal code, telephone, fax and email address all appear exactly as submitted, and that includes private individuals. The policy contains not a single clause on the protection of personal data, and no privacy service is offered for sale. The registry also publishes the purpose of registration you state on the application form. For that reason it is safer to file a .tj application with a business address, a business phone number and a separate email address rather than your home details.
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.TJ Domain at a Glance

  • Registry operator Information Technology Center (ITC)
  • Parent authority Executive Office of the President of Tajikistan
  • Entered the root zone 11 December 1997
  • Passed to national control 2004
  • Rules in force Registration policy dated 1 January 2004
  • Whois privacy None — holder details are published unmasked
  • Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .tj domain
  • Country Tajikistan
  • Character Length 3 - 63 characters
  • Registration Period 1 - 3 years
  • Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers

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.tj 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.

  • Transfer

    $48.00 /year
  • Renewal

    $59.90 /year

Included With Every .tj Domain

  • 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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    Point the domain at your existing site, a campaign page or a social profile — at no extra cost.

.tj Domain Lifecycle

Active registration term 1 - 3 years You choose it at registration

What happens day by day after it expires

Day 0 is the domain's expiry date

In short: for .tj 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 .tj, day by day. One thing never changes, whichever extension you hold: renewing before the expiry date is always the cheapest and safest route.

What happens day by day after it expires Lifecycle diagram for .tj, left to right: the name starts out available; once registered it is yours for the term you chose and the site and e-mail work; day 0 is the expiry date, after which the name is open to anyone again. Renewal possible Open to anyone Available Registered 1 - 3 years Open to anyone EXPIRED Day 0 Expiry date Website and e-mail work
Swipe sideways to see the whole timeline

Domain Is Available (Available)

Open-ended

A .tj 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)

1 - 3 years

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

Open-ended

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.

.tj Domain Specifications and Registration Rules

Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.

.tj Domain Registration

  • Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .tj domain
  • Country Tajikistan
  • Character Length 3 - 63 characters
  • Registration Period 1 - 3 years
  • Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers

.tj Domain Support

  • IDN Support No
  • Transfer Support Yes
  • Late Renewal Support No

Frequently Asked Questions About .tj Domains

The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.

  • No. The policy opens applications to «all individuals and entities, resident and not resident in Tajikistan», so there is no establishment requirement. A company based abroad, a sole trader and a private individual all register on the same terms, and the registry sets no cap on how many names one holder may take. No local address, agent or trustee is required. One nuance applies only to contested cases: where two applications are equal in every other respect, the registry gives priority to an applicant resident in the country. Otherwise priority is chronological, though an incomplete application loses its place to a later complete one.

  • Three characters in practice. The syntax clause of the policy sets the floor at two characters, but that is a formatting rule only. Every two-letter name tested against the registry's own lookup returns either «reserved» or «registered»; not one of them is free. Nor is the restriction limited to country codes: two-letter strings that match no country code at all come back reserved as well. Single-character names have all been allocated to third parties already. From three characters upward you will find names available, and the upper limit is sixty-three characters.

  • No. Although Tajikistan's official writing system is Cyrillic-based, the .tj zone has no support for local scripts. The policy lists the permitted characters one by one and closes the set to the ASCII letters of the Latin alphabet, digits and the hyphen; names are not case sensitive, and a hyphen may not open or close a name. Measurement points the same way: the punycode prefix used by internationalised domain names is held as reserved by the registry, so no name in that form can be registered. For a Tajik-language brand, transliteration into Latin letters is the practical answer.

  • The policy lists names with special status exhaustively. You cannot register names suggesting a link to the government, names that could be tied to religious confessions, «NIC» and its variations, geographical names of Tajikistan, existing and future generic extension names, and technical strings such as «www», «http» and «https». Words contrary to public interest, the principles of humanity and accepted morals are refused as well. Two-letter country codes are reserved at both the second and third level, though an applicant who proves the code is an abbreviation of their own name or trademark may have it considered. The registry may also refuse a name at its own discretion.

  • Both sit with the same registry under the same policy; the difference is the level. A .tj name is registered directly at the second level and states the country identity in the shortest possible form. .com.tj sits beneath the shared space the registry set aside for commercial use, so your name is built one level deeper. Contrary to what you might expect, no declaration of commercial activity and no extra document is required there; the eligibility conditions are identical. If you want to close your brand in the Tajik market, taking both levels is the direct route.

  • Yes, all of them. The registry's lookup shows the holder's name or company, street address, city, postal code, telephone, fax and email address exactly as submitted, and the administrative and technical contact blocks are equally open. There is no exception for private individuals, and the policy contains no provision at all on the protection of personal data. No privacy service is offered for purchase either. Even the purpose of registration you write on the application form is published. You can check records on the whois search page.

  • A change of registrar is expressly guaranteed by the policy: the holder may change registrar at any time. In practice you notify your current registrar of the decision, and if it files no reasoned objection within the set window the move is completed through the new one. One point deserves attention: the text defines no authorisation-code mechanism of the kind familiar from generic extensions, so the process runs on correspondence between the parties and its timing can vary. Transferring the name to a different holder is a separate matter with no published procedure. Start on the domain transfer page.

  • There are two routes. The policy states that disputes are settled under the legislation of the Republic of Tajikistan and under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy approved by ICANN on 24 October 1999, so the procedure familiar from generic extensions applies here too. The registry runs no separate panel, fee schedule or complaint form of its own, and each side bears its own costs. An administrative route exists alongside this: a deletion order from a court in Tajikistan, or a notice of illegality from a competent public authority, can cause the name to be deleted directly.

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