Buy .com.tn Domain Name

Only on the basis of a trademark registered in Tunisia. Article 8.1 of the Naming Charter limits eligible parties for all .tn names to three categories, and the one covering foreign companies reads «holders or legal representatives of an international trademark registered in Tunisia». The registry's own registration page repeats that sentence. On top of it sits the category test in article 4.1: com.tn is reserved for companies of a commercial nature, and article 8.2 requires the applicant to verify that membership themselves.

Yes. This is a second hurdle, separate from the trademark test. Article 10.1 requires the applicant to designate an administrative contact who is «obligatorily established in Tunisia and holds an effective address there», and article 10.3 makes failure to do so a ground for rejecting the application. Article 11.1 requires that contact's email address to end in «.tn». The registry's question and answer page describes the representative too: a lawyer or intellectual property management office resident in Tunisia and recognised by the Tunisian government.

Article 9.3 defines the file as the signed registration form, an identity document for the applicant, and the contact details. The registry's question and answer page splits the list by residence and, for applicants not resident in Tunisia, names three items: the registration form, a copy of the commercial register entry and a copy of the trademark registration. The file goes to a service provider in Tunisia rather than to the registry directly. Article 12.1 also lets the registry audit a registrar's records for any registration.

One year is the only option. Article 14.1 makes a registered name valid for twelve months from activation and renews it tacitly unless the registrar sends a termination request to the registry. No rule text offers a multi-year registration. The registry's question and answer page describes the same structure in different words: the contract is not separately renewed, it is created once at registration and extends by itself, which keeps your calendar on a single annual cycle.

No, it is blocked first. Article 17.1 lists non-payment of the registration fee among the grounds for blocking and notes that this happens without the holder's consent; article 17.2 obliges the registrar to inform the holder within three working days. Article 17.3 caps the state: names may not remain blocked for more than two calendar months except by court order, and cannot leave that state until the underlying cause is removed. When the period runs out the name is suspended automatically. While blocked, the address does not resolve.

Selling is prohibited; changing registrar is not. Article 11.3 binds the holder not to «sell, rent or delegate the domain name in whole or in part», and the registry's question and answer page repeats that in two separate places. Article 15 handles registrar change under its own heading: the former registrar undertakes to satisfy the request within three working days of receiving it, and the new registrar must make sure the name's availability is not affected. You can start the steps from our domain transfer page.

Yes, and this is measurable: com.tn carries its own DS record inside the .tn zone and the chain of trust reaches the root. The practical benefit is that a validating resolver can prove the DNS answer for your name was not altered in transit. Carrying a separate DS record is also technical evidence that com.tn is a genuine, separately operated registry zone; the zone's own SOA record names the registry's ns1.ati.tn as its primary server.

Yes. The registry's question and answer page asks this directly and answers in the affirmative: a domain name may be pointed at a server located outside Tunisia. The same page confirms you can host the site on your own premises, and that keeping email with one provider while the website runs with another is possible. Tunisia's restriction is on the person, not the server: hosting is free, but the administrative contact must be in Tunisia with an email address ending in «.tn».