.ar domains

Argentina

.AR domains pertain to Argentina and were created in year 1987. It's use is very popular in Argentina because it's necessary to have a local contact in this country. Since year 2008 .ar domains permit the use of IDN characters, including ñ, á, é, í, ó & ú.

.AR domains are managed by Nic.ar.

Rates and features

.com.ar

19,95 €

There are no restrictions for such domains.

Registration period extension

Action	Price/year	Periodes	Dominitis
Registration	19,95 €	1 year(s)	2 dominitis
Renewal	19,95 €	1 year(s)	2 dominitis
Transfer	19,95 €	1 year(s)	2 dominitis

Features
Domain length:	4 - 19 characters
Transfer system:	The domains, once the transfer ends, extend they expiration date for one year

Regulations

.ar domain life cycle

				45 days
	Domain registration		Expiration date		Deletion date
Domain available		Domain active		Renew grace period		Domain available

Renew Grace Period

Permitted characters / IDN

.ar 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.
IDN characters are permitted in .ar domains.

Permitted IDN character table for .ar domains

An Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) is a domain name that can contain non ASCII characters.

Hyphen (-)
Digits (0-9)
Characters (a-z)

Character	Unicode	HTML Code	HTML Number	Unicode Table

LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH GRAVE
à	U+00E0	à	à	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH ACUTE
á	U+00E1	á	á	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX
â	U+00E2	â	â	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH TILDE
ã	U+00E3	ã	ã	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH CEDILLA
ç	U+00E7	ç	ç	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH GRAVE
è	U+00E8	è	è	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE
é	U+00E9	é	é	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH CIRCUMFLEX
ê	U+00EA	ê	ê	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH GRAVE
ì	U+00EC	ì	ì	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH ACUTE
í	U+00ED	í	í	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH TILDE
ñ	U+00F1	ñ	ñ	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH GRAVE
ò	U+00F2	ò	ò	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH ACUTE
ó	U+00F3	ó	ó	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH CIRCUMFLEX
ô	U+00F4	ô	ô	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH TILDE
õ	U+00F5	õ	õ	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH ACUTE
ú	U+00FA	ú	ú	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH DIAERESIS
ü	U+00FC	ü	ü	Latin-1 Supplement

IDN domains don't permit to mix different Scripts or character sets (for example, Latin, Greek or Cyrillic).
But it's possible to use different character tables for a same script.
- The Latin Script permits the use of characters of Latin-1 supplement, Latin Extended-A, Latin Extended-B, etc.. tables.
- The Greek Script permits to combine characters of the Greek, Greek Extended, etc.. tables, doesn't permit combine them with the normal latin characters (a-z), but permits the use of numbers or hyphens.
- Other script types have their own corresponding tables.

Residency requirements

This extension doesn't have any residency requirements.

Technical requirements

This extension doesn't have any technical requirements.

Registrations

.com.ar domain registrations aren't immediate.

Average duration of the registration process: up to 5 days

Transfers

Once transferred, the domain is renewed for one year but maintaining the original registration day, the new expiration date is calculated following the rules below:

Day: Stays the same
Month: The month where the transfer is completed
Year: One year in the future

Renewals

You can renew your .COM.AR 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 .COM.AR 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 isn't immediate, please note they must propagate through the network, this process can take up to 6-12 hours to complete, once the Registry processes the requested change, this can take up to 6-7 days, until then the domain will still point to the previous DNS servers.