.com domains

Commercial

Created year 1985, .COM extension was originally administered by the United States Department of Defense, but now they're managed by Verisign Inc.

Domain registrations are processed by ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) and Verisign accredited registrars. Initially created for commercial beings, they're being used for any website type because they don't have any restriction on their usage. Currently there are approximately 95 million .COM registered domains, according to data provided by Verisign. The growth is over one million new registration a month.

Rates and features

.com

9,95 €

There are no restrictions for such domains.

Registration period extension

Action	Price/year	Periodes	Dominitis
Registration	9,95 €	1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 year(s)	2 dominitis
Renewal	9,95 €	1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 year(s)	2 dominitis
Transfer	9,95 €	1 year(s)	2 dominitis
Restore	60,00 €	Does not include renewal	-

Features
Domain length:	2 - 63 characters
Transfer system:	The domains, once the transfer ends, extend they expiration date for one year

Regulations

.com domain life cycle

				42 days	30 days	5 days
	Domain registration		Expiration date				Deletion date
Domain available		Domain active		Renew grace period	Redemption period	Pending delete		Domain available

Renew Grace Period
Redemption Period
Pending Delete

Permitted characters / IDN

.com 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 .com domains.

Permitted IDN character table for .com domains

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

Unicode Script:

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

Character	Unicode	HTML Code	HTML Number	Unicode Table

LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH ACUTE
á	U+00E1	á	á	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE
é	U+00E9	é	é	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 ACUTE
ó	U+00F3	ó	ó	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 domain registrations are immediate.

Transfers

To be able to complete .COM 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 .COM domain transfers

The domains, once the transfer ends, extend they expiration date for one year

Renewals

You can renew your .COM 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 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.

DNSSEC

We allow the usage of DNSSEC on .com domains, thanks to it your domain will be able to take advantage of an additional security layer that DNS servers that are compatible with this tecnology can provide.
You can obtain more information at: What is DNSSEC and how does it work

Domain owner change

Since December 1st, 2016, in order to proceed with an ownership change of .COM domains, it's necessary that both the current and new owner accept this change. Once the ownership change is completed the domain is locked for transfers for a 60-day period, during this time the domain won't be able to be transferred to another registrar.

More information: https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/transfer-policy-2016-06-01-en