.al domains

Albania

The .AL extension is the Albanian territorial extension. This was created on 1992 and it's managed by akep.al. At first it was restricted to Albanian Companies, but now is possible to register albanian domains even for companies and individuals outside the country.

Domain Restrictions

Restricted to Albanian residents and corporations

For Albanian commercial organizations or foreign organizations with a permanent legal representative within Albania. Starting from the day of the registration of a domain name the “possessor” is allowed 15 days to make any possible changes/corrections of a spelling mistake on a registered domain name or information regarding the contacts. After the above mentioned period, the request for changes/corrections of a domain name is considered as a request for a new registration, and as a result has to be accompanied by an application form for a new registration.

Rates and features

.al

61,95 €

It's required that the domain contacts reside in Albania.

Registration period doesn't change

Action	Price/year	Periodes	Dominitis
Registration	61,95 €	1 year(s)	2 dominitis
Renewal	61,95 €	1 year(s)	2 dominitis
Transfer	61,95 €		2 dominitis

Features
Domain length:	3 - 63 characters
Residency requirements / Membership:	It's required that the domain contacts reside in Albania.
Transfer system:	When the transfer ends, the expiration date doesn't change.

.com.al

61,95 €

It's required that the domain contacts reside in Albania.

Registration period doesn't change

Action	Price/year	Periodes	Dominitis
Registration	61,95 €	1 year(s)	-
Renewal	61,95 €	1 year(s)	-
Transfer	61,95 €		-

Features
Domain length:	3 - 63 characters
Residency requirements / Membership:	It's required that the domain contacts reside in Albania.
Transfer system:	When the transfer ends, the expiration date doesn't change.

Regulations

.al domain life cycle


	Domain registration		Expiration/Deletion date
Domain available		Domain active		Domain available

Permitted characters

.al domains permit characters from 'a' to 'z', numbers from '0' to '9' and hyphens '-'.
A hyphen '-' is not permitted in the first or last position of the domain name.
Two consecutive hyphens are not permitted in the 3rd and 4th position.

Residency requirements

It's required that the domain contacts reside in Albania.

Technical requirements

This extension doesn't have any technical requirements.

Registrations

.al domain registrations are immediate.

Transfers

To be able to complete .AL domain transfers you'll need your current registrar to give you the domain's AuthCode or EPP-Key, with it you'll be able to verify your domain's ownership.

Transfers can take between 5 and 7 days to complete. Some registrars allow to accept transfers manually, contact your current registrar and find out if they offer this service, in this case the transfer will complete the same day.

More information about .AL domain transfers

When the transfer ends, the expiration date doesn't change.

Renewals

You can renew your .AL domain at any moment, this process can take between 20 and 30 minutes to complete.

Cancellations

It's possible to ask for the cancellation of your .AL domain, you'll have to do it opening a ticket (support area). Please note the domain cancellation involves no refund of the domain registration fee.

DNS modifications

DNS modification is immediate, please note they must propagate through the network, this process can take up to 6-12 hours to complete, until then the domain will still point to the previous DNS servers.