Buy .uz Domain Name

The regulation closes this question in one sentence: any natural or legal person, whatever their nationality and wherever they are located, may register a .uz name. There is no residency requirement in Uzbekistan, no local address, no local contact person and no trustee arrangement. The second level of .uz is open to individuals as well; the zones that restrict registration to organisations are the generic ones such as .com.uz and .co.uz.

The regulation sets no general document requirement. What it asks for is the standard application form in its appendices, filled in completely and accurately: name or company name, identification, postal and email addresses, telephone and DNS server details. Organisations additionally provide bank details and administrative, technical and billing contacts. The registrar keeps the right to seek confirmation that the information is genuine, but that is not a paperwork condition applied up front.

According to the registry's own information page, the term of registration and re-registration runs from one year to ten years. The regulation itself leaves the term to the contract between the registrar and the domain administrator and fixes only the floor: it may not be less than one year. In practice the choice is yours, and a longer term is the simplest way to reduce renewal risk in a zone with a short recovery window.

After registration ends the name stays with its current administrator for only 7 working days; once that additional period closes, it becomes available for others to register. Because that window runs 30 to 90 days in many country extensions, missing a renewal in .uz costs markedly more: you have a few working days to recover the name, not weeks. Plan the renewal at least two weeks before the expiry date rather than on it.

The regulation requires a name to consist of more than one character; the permitted signs are the letters a-z, the digits 0-9 and the hyphen. A name may neither begin nor end with a hyphen. Names outside the Latin alphabet are registered through IDN encoding with the «XN--» prefix, and the registry publishes its own converter for the purpose. Registering a brand written in Cyrillic or in the Uzbek alphabet is therefore technically possible.

The regulation defines priority explicitly: for a name that is not on the reserved list and does not conflict with the law or with international agreements to which Uzbekistan is party, priority belongs to whoever files the application first. Applications reach the registrar through its web systems, by email or in writing. A name showing as free in a search is not held in your name until you complete that application.

The regulation points first to negotiation: «стороны могут регулировать отношения путем переговоров». A dispute that cannot be settled that way goes to court. This differs from many country extensions — .uz has no UDRP-style arbitration procedure — so a trade mark claim proceeds through the judicial route rather than through an expedited administrative one. If trade mark protection is critical for you, build that difference into your plan.

The registry's special domain names page lists the zones and who each is open to: ac.uz for research organisations, higher education and cultural institutions; com.uz and co.uz for commercial organisations; edu.uz for holders of an educational licence; int.uz for international organisations; net.uz for organisations running internet development projects; org.uz for non-commercial organisations; and pp.uz for individuals.