Buy .co.th Domain Name

Yes, but not directly. Clause 7 requires the holder to be of Thai nationality or a legal entity under Thai law, and the fifth limb of the category gives foreign entities and trademark owners a single route: appoint an agent (a grantee of power of attorney) to be responsible for the domain on your behalf. That agent must be a business registered with the Department of Business Development or registered for VAT in Thailand. Clause 14.1 confirms that the rights of use remain with the domain holder.

It depends on the eligibility limb you enter through. Companies incorporated in Thailand present their Department of Business Development record, VAT-registered applicants their Revenue Department registration, and trademark applicants their Department of Intellectual Property certificate. An applicant from abroad needs two: the power of attorney and the agent's own business registration. Clause 14.2 treats the information you submit as a guarantee of its accuracy, and clause 16 allows suspension or revocation without prior notice where information proves false.

No. Clause 3.3 requires the name to be derived from the organisation's name, a project name or a trademark. If you derive it from a company name, it must explicitly imply that name in full or an abbreviation of any part of it, and the clause adds a flat prohibition: «It is not permitted to switch the order or add characters or numerals.» Through the trademark route, clause 3.3.3 requires the name to be identical in all respects to the mark in both letters and numbers. Generic or keyword-led names cannot be registered in this zone.

Clause 10 of the policy states the range plainly: «Annual domain name renewal is for a minimum of one (1) year and up to ten (10) years maximum.» The same clause puts the tracking on you — verifying the expiry date, submitting the renewal request and paying the annual fee before the registration expires are all the holder's responsibility. Clause 8 also refers to a redemption fee after expiry, though the policy does not state how many days the redemption window lasts.

As a rule, no. Clause 11 states that domain name ownership cannot be transferred to another person and allows only four exceptions: a change in trademark ownership; a change in the legal status of a corporate holder through merger or acquisition, or a transfer of the business; a foreign holder changing the local agent; and the death of the holder or a court order of disappearance, incompetence or quasi-incompetence. The third exception keeps the route open for changing your trustee provider.

The registry does not mediate. Clause 15 says so directly: THNIC and the registrar reserve the right not to serve as an intermediary in disputes among domain holders and will settle a dispute only by relying on a court order or a written legal agreement between the parties. If a dispute arises during registration, the process may be suspended. There is therefore no fast administrative route comparable to UDRP under .co.th; claims run through the Thai courts or arbitration.

Each .th category has a Thai-script counterpart, and the one paired with .co.th is .ธุรกิจ.ไทย. Clause 4.4.5 ties them together: a holder of a .th name is entitled to register a .ไทย name in the same category, the two must be consistent with each other, and translations or synonyms must follow the rules of the Office of the Royal Society. .co.th itself uses ASCII characters only — Thai script operates under the separate extension.