Buy .tm Domain Name

No. For the second level the rules state a single eligibility condition, and it barely counts as one: an applicant may reside in any legal jurisdiction. A company based in Türkiye, a sole trader and a private individual all register on the same terms; no local address, local contact, agent or Turkmen connection is required. No documents are asked for either, because the registry states in its own terms that it has no obligation to verify the information supplied. The only technical expectation is that working name servers exist for the name when the application is filed, and those servers need not sit in Turkmenistan or within any particular address range. Priority goes to whoever applies first.

No, it does not. Because «TM» reads internationally as the shorthand for a trademark, the extension is often chosen for brand work, but none of the registry's published documents asks you to own a mark, produce a registration certificate or declare a commercial capacity. That does not put the name outside trademark law: the registry provides mark owners with a separate dispute route, and a name registered or used in bad faith can be cancelled through it or transferred to the rights holder. The practical upshot is straightforward. You need no paperwork to obtain the name, but choosing something that collides with somebody else's mark puts the name at risk.

You get ninety days. The registry publishes the chain step by step: six weeks before expiry the administrative contact is invited to verify the record, four weeks before the billing contact receives a payment request, and two weeks before a second reminder follows. On the expiry date you are told the name has lapsed. Thirty days after expiry the name is withdrawn and stops resolving, but throughout that window the administrative or billing contact can still renew it. If payment has not arrived within ninety days of the expiry date, the name is released automatically and anyone may register it. A delay beyond three months therefore loses the name for good.

Not unless you choose to publish them. The registry's data policy states the position plainly: for public disclosure of registration data the default is no disclosure, and only the data subject can elect to publish. Phone, fax and email are protected on top of that and never appear in lookup results without further, explicit consent. Control sits in two places, the domain record and the contact record, and the registry applies whichever is more restrictive, so a field is public only if you have exposed it in both. One limit applies: if privacy settings are used to mask inappropriate activity, the registry reserves the right to suspend the name summarily. Check your own record on the whois search page.

A change of registrar needs the name's AuthCode, the authorisation string the industry also calls an EPP or transfer code, and you request it from your current provider. This zone has a detail that saves you when that fails: if the provider will not release the code, you can take the name into your own direct control using the owner password, which can be reset if you no longer have it. The registry also lets a holder manage a name directly rather than through a registrar, so moving between providers usually means taking direct control first and handing the name on afterwards. A change of holder is a separate, chargeable procedure. Start on the domain transfer page.

English law. That is uncommon among country code extensions and follows directly from how the zone is structured: the company that operates it is incorporated in England and based in London. The closing clause of the registration terms says so explicitly — the agreement is governed by English law in every particular, is deemed to have been made in England, and any legal action concerning it is brought in England. The same clause adds a detail worth knowing: only the untranslated English version of the documents has legal standing. Trademark disputes travel a separate road, through a mandatory administrative proceeding before the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center, and those decisions are published in full.

The difference lies both in the level and in who may register. A .tm name is registered directly at the second level and asks the applicant for no capacity whatsoever. com.tm sits at the third level, and there the rules say the opposite: the applicant must be resident in Turkmenistan, and at least one of the name's servers must be physically located in Turkmenistan. The split is measurable in the DNS as well: sub-zones such as com.tm, gov.tm and edu.tm are separate delegations served from the national telecommunications operator inside the country, while .tm itself runs on the London registry's infrastructure. Applying from abroad, the level open to you is .tm.

The restrictions attach to use rather than to the name itself, and they fall under two headings. The first is the appropriate use rule: no .tm domain may be used, directly or indirectly, for any sexual or pornographic purpose, or in a way that breaks the statutory laws of any nation. If the registry receives a formal notification together with an indemnity, it reserves the right to deactivate the registration immediately, and the holder's only route back is a determination by an arbitrator appointed by WIPO. The second is the spam rule: if a name originates unsolicited email or is the address such email points to, the registry sends a cease and desist letter and then suspends the name.