Buy .vn Domain Name

No. The rules keep .vn open to «agencies, organisations, enterprises and individuals», so registration by a private person is not an exception here but the core of the rule. There is no local presence, local address or trustee requirement. The only split concerns where you file: an applicant with an address in Vietnam may use a domestic registrar only, while an applicant based abroad may use domestic and foreign registrars alike. By the registry's own count the system holds 10 domestic and 6 foreign accredited registrars, so a route from outside the country is open. The allocation principle is stated plainly: equality, non-discrimination and first come, first served.

From one year upwards. The registry states that a .vn name must be maintained for at least 1 year and that the upper end depends on your own needs; its English country-code page puts the range at 1 to 50 years. On renewal the new expiry is calculated from the current expiry date rather than from the day you pay, so renewing early costs you nothing, and you may renew before the term runs out. Maintenance fees already paid are not refunded. The registry also advises checking in its lookup how many years were actually processed — a channel that renews fewer years than you ordered is a genuine cause of loss.

The rules start at one character: a .vn name needs «at least one character or one string of characters», and no provision imposes a three-character minimum. Measurement agrees — two-character .vn names are delegated and in use. The commercial side reads differently, though: one- and two-character names sit in separate items of the registry's fee schedule, and two-character names have been distributed through the government auction portal since 2026. So a two-letter name is legally possible but cannot be bought from a registrar as an ordinary order; names of three characters and more face no such barrier.

Yes. Vietnamese-script names are part of the definition of .vn itself: the rules split the national extension into «unaccented names and Vietnamese names» and define the Vietnamese ones not as a separate zone but across every level beneath .vn. The name enters the zone file in punycode form, and the 63-character ceiling applies to that converted ASCII string. Measurement shows it working in production: Vietnamese-script names are delegated at both the second and the third level, and some of them are hosted on the registry's own name servers. In practice this lets you hold a Vietnamese brand in its accented and unaccented forms together.

Both sit with the same registry under the same legislation; the difference is level and positioning. .vn is registered directly at the second level and asks the applicant for no particular capacity. .com.vn is a shared second-level name allocated to nobody: registration happens at the third level beneath it, and the rules mark that space as suited to trade and services. One detail matters — the two levels are independent registrations, so the holder of example.vn cannot stop example.com.vn going to someone else. Taking both is the direct way to close your name in the Vietnamese market.

The thirty days after expiry are yours. Throughout that window the name is switched off — the website and email stop working — but you can still pay the renewal and get it back; once the payment is processed the name returns within about half an hour, and up to a day for fully stable operation. At the end of the thirtieth day the name moves into withdrawal processing and the holder can no longer renew it. Release is random and automatic, and the registry's procedure caps that moment at fifteen days from the end of the renewal period. The redemption period of generic extensions does not exist in this zone.

For a change of registrar your current provider first unlocks the name and issues the authorisation code; you pass the code to the new provider and the move completes within 5 working days at most. The old provider cannot obstruct you once your obligations are met, and a refusal has to be given in writing with reasons. Transfer is closed in five situations: within 60 days of a new registration, in the last 30 days before expiry, while an infringement case is running, while the name is suspended, and while a dispute is pending. A change of holder is a separate procedure that the registrar concludes within 10 days. Verify the result on the whois search page and start the move on the domain transfer page.

Not through the UDRP but through Vietnamese law. The basis is the Luật Viễn thông 2023 telecommunications act together with decree Nghị định 147/2024/NĐ-CP, and the registry states its own lack of competence plainly: VNNIC does not decide disputes, it only applies a decision of the competent authority, a court judgment, an arbitral award or a legally valid settlement record. Three routes exist: conciliation, commercial arbitration and the people's court. The substantive test has three elements much like the UDRP — confusing similarity with the claimant's mark, no legitimate interest on the respondent's side, and bad-faith use. The registry also warns that .vn names fall outside the Intellectual Property Law, so a trademark alone creates no automatic protection.