.pt domains

Portugal

.PT domains are managed by FCCN (Fundação para a Computação Científica Nacional) since year 2001, from this date more than 1.000.000 .pt domains have been registered.

Until May 2012, the registration of .PT domains was restricted to Portuguese companies or trademarks registered in Portugal, since then the .pt domain registration has been released. .pt domain names can be registered by any person or company, no matter in which country they live.

Rates and features

.pt

13,95 €

There are no restrictions for such domains.

Registration period doesn't change

Action	Price/year	Periodes	Dominitis
Registration	13,95 €	1,3,5 year(s)	2 dominitis
Renewal	13,95 €	1,3,5 year(s)	2 dominitis
Transfer	13,95 €		-

Features
Domain length:	3 - 63 characters
Transfer system:	When the transfer ends, the expiration date doesn't change. .PT domain transfers are free of charge if done at least 180 days before the expiration date.

.com.pt

13,95 €

There are no restrictions for such domains.

Registration period doesn't change

Action	Price/year	Periodes	Dominitis
Registration	13,95 €	1,3,5 year(s)	2 dominitis
Renewal	13,95 €	1,3,5 year(s)	2 dominitis
Transfer	13,95 €		2 dominitis

Features
Domain length:	3 - 63 characters
Transfer system:	When the transfer ends, the expiration date doesn't change. .PT domain transfers are free of charge if done at least 180 days before the expiration date.

Regulations

.pt domain life cycle

				30 days
	Domain registration		Expiration date		Deletion date
Domain available		Domain active		Redemption period		Domain available

Redemption Period

Permitted characters / IDN

.pt 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 .pt domains.

Permitted IDN character table for .pt 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 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 ACUTE
í	U+00ED	í	í	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

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

.PT domains require the DNS to be active on different subnets and to be authoritative for the domain at the time of registration. You can check if they pass these minimum requirements using our Zone Check tool.

Registrations

.pt domain registrations are immediate.

Transfers

To be able to complete .PT 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 .PT domain transfers

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

Renewals

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

Cancellations

It's not possible to cancel a .PT domain registration, in any case you can request its removal, please note that the .pt domain removal does not involve the refund of the registration rate.

DNS modifications

DNS modifications are immediate, note that they must be propagated through the network, this process usually takes between 6 and 12 hours to complete, till then the domain will point to the previous DNS servers.

DNSSEC

We allow the usage of DNSSEC on .pt 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

.pt domains do not allow automatic owner changes, those changes need to be done directly at DNS.pt. We recommend you to try to edit the owner of your .pt domain on our system in order to obtain the steps to complete that owner change.