com.ye Domain: Yemen's Commercial Registration Zone
com.ye is the Republic of Yemen's zone for commercial use, and it has no separate operator: the sponsoring organisation for the parent zone is TeleYemen in Sana'a, and com.ye is held in its registry system. The zone appears as a registered object in the registry whois, is served by the parent zone's name servers, and resolved cleanly on 11 August 2026; names beneath it opened, and names that do not exist came back plainly as available.
Describing this zone calls for honesty: the registry does not publish a registration policy. No reachable primary text was found for eligibility, required documents, name syntax, registration term, the post-expiry chain or dispute handling; the registry's own hosts did not respond from this environment, and TeleYemen's corporate site lists no domain service. The conditions therefore have to be confirmed through your registrar.
com.ye is not the only option in Yemen: second-level .ye registration is live as well, so you can weigh the same name at two levels. Another distinctive trait of this namespace is that registrant details are never published in whois. Check whether the name is free on the domain search page, and settle the conditions before you order.
.COM.YE Domain at a Glance
- Sponsoring organisation TeleYemen — Sana'a; the sponsor named in the IANA root zone record
- State of the zone Live — a registered object in the registry whois, served by the parent zone's servers
- Published registration policy None found — no reachable primary text on eligibility, documents or term
- Registry services whois.y.net.ye (port 43) and rdap.y.net.ye; both answered on 11 August 2026
- Alternative level Second-level .ye is open too; the same name can be weighed at two levels
- Sibling zones net.ye, org.ye, edu.ye, gov.ye, me.ye and tv.ye; co.ye and info.ye do not exist
- Document Requirement View required documents
- Country Yemen
- Character Length 3 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.com.ye Domain Prices — No Surprise Fees
Registration, transfer and renewal fees are listed separately. The renewal price can differ from the first-year price, so you see both up front.
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New Registration
$199.00 /year -
Transfer
$199.00 /year -
Renewal
$218.90 /year -
Restore
$449.90 -
Trustee Service
$249.00
Included With Every .com.ye Domain
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Free DNS management
Change A, MX, TXT and CNAME records yourself from the panel — no waiting on anyone when you move a site or mailbox.
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Domain forwarding
Point the domain at your existing site, a campaign page or a social profile — at no extra cost.
.com.ye Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: for .com.ye the post-expiry timeline is set by the registry, so it differs from one extension to the next. The diagram below shows the windows that actually apply to .com.ye, day by day. One thing never changes, whichever extension you hold: renewing before the expiry date is always the cheapest and safest route.
Domain Is Available (Available)
A .com.ye address at this stage has not been taken yet, and it goes to whoever registers first. Check the name you have in mind — if it is free, it can be yours within minutes.
Domain Is Active (Active Period)
Once registration is complete, the domain is registered to you for the term you selected. You can renew at any point before it expires to keep it active, or switch on auto-renewal so you never have to watch the date.
Domain Is Available Again
Once deletion completes, the domain leaves the system and anyone can register it — popular names are often taken the same minute by someone watching. Keep auto-renewal on so a name you care about never gets this far.
.com.ye Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.com.ye Domain Registration
- Document Requirement View required documents
- Country Yemen
- Character Length 3 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.com.ye Domain Support
- IDN Support No
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support No
Documents Required for a .com.ye Domain
If you do not meet this requirement, we can register the domain in the name of our local representatives and then make it available to you. This option has an additional cost (Trustee Service)
| Extension | Trustee Service | DNS Update |
| .ye | 249 $ | 69 $ |
| .com.ye | 249 $ | 69 $ |
| .net.ye | 249 $ | 69 $ |
| .org.ye | 249 $ | 69 $ |
Frequently Asked Questions About .com.ye Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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Not anywhere reachable. In a check on 11 August 2026 the registry's own hosts did not answer on ports 80 and 443, TeleYemen's corporate site was up but listed no domain registration service, and the web archive held only old portal pages from 2002-2008. For eligibility, required documents and terms you need to confirm with your registrar before ordering.
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Yes, and that was measured directly. On 11 August 2026 the name server and authority records for com.ye came back, registered names beneath it resolved, and a name that does not exist returned a clean «does not exist» answer. In the registry whois com.ye appears as a registered zone object served by the parent zone's name servers. Technically the zone is in good order; what is missing is a published rule text.
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No. The registry whois server returns only four fields: the domain name, the registrar, the last update date and the name servers. Registrant details, the creation date and the expiry date are never published, and the RDAP endpoint IANA lists states that the record is only a summary. That makes keeping the renewal date in your own calendar more important here than with most extensions.
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Yes. In Yemen second-level registration is live: the registry whois shows names registered directly under .ye, and the free names we tested came back as «not found». So you can weigh the same name at two levels. This is a clear difference from Kuwait, where second-level registration is not offered at all today and the third level is the only route.
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They will not. The registry whois never publishes the registrant's name, address, phone or email. That is an advantage for privacy, but it cuts both ways: you cannot verify from outside who really holds a name, which matters in a trademark dispute or when trying to negotiate a purchase. You can view the existing record on the whois search page.
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The parent zone is not signed: a check on 11 August 2026 confirmed that the root zone holds no DS record for .ye, so no chain of signatures can be built for names under com.ye. There is a positive technical detail, though: every name server serving com.ye publishes an IPv6 address, so the zone resolves without trouble on modern networks.
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