Country extension · Portugal
.pt domain name
Register or transfer your .pt with WebOké. Below you can see what it costs, who can register a .pt and what to look out for when transferring.
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Specifications
The key details of .pt
- Country
- Portugal
- Registry
- dns.pt
- Registration period
- 1 year, 3 years or 5 years
- Renewal period
- 1 year, 3 years or 5 years
- Domain name length
- 1 to 63 characters
- Time to registration
- immediately
- Renewal on transfer
- no
- Transfer code length
- 8 to 15 characters
- Transfer lock available
- no
- Number of nameservers
- 1 to 13
Features
- DNSSEC: yesYou can secure your domain name with DNSSEC.
- IPv6: yesThe nameservers for this extension can also be reached over IPv6.
- Special characters: yesDomain names with letters such as é, ü or ø (and sometimes other scripts) are possible.
- Whois privacy: no
- Trustee: no
Requirements
Who can register a .pt?
- Anyone can register a domain name directly under .pt, whether you're an individual, a business or an organisation. The same applies to the sub-extension com..pt.
- Only non-profit organisations and individuals can register under org..pt. The name must match your own name, an abbreviation of it or the name of one of your projects or activities.
- Only public educational institutions and owners of private or cooperative educational institutions can register under edu..pt. The name must match the official designation of the institution or an abbreviation of it.
- Only branches of the Portuguese government can register under gov..pt. This is done through CEGER, the Portuguese government's IT centre, and not through a regular registrar.
- A name must not be contrary to the law, public order or public decency. It also must not match an existing or planned top-level domain name, or an internet protocol or internet term.
- You can't register a name that causes confusion about who the owner is, for example because it matches a well-known trademark belonging to someone else.
- Geographical names can only be registered by the competent administrative authority, such as the state, a regional government, a municipality or a parish council for its own area.
- Registrations that meet conditions expressly set out in the law are also permitted.
- Since 30 June 2026, your contact details must be verifiably checked before a registration, change of ownership or change of contact details can be completed. Both your email address and your phone number are checked.
- If that check fails, the request can't be completed.
Additional details for registration
- You must provide the registrant's tax number, meaning the VAT number or tax identification number of the person or company, without the country code.
- For edu..pt, you state whether you're registering as an organisation or as an individual.
- For edu..pt, you also state what your right to the name is based on: the name matches the designation of the educational institution or an abbreviation of it, or there is a statement from the Ministry of Education.
- Your email address and phone number must be valid and reachable, as they are checked for the registration.
Documents
- In the first five days after your application, the registry may ask you by email for supporting documents. That email explains how and where to upload them via the registry's portal.
- If the registry thinks your details appear incorrect, incomplete or false, it may request additional evidence. You usually have to provide this within 8 days.
- For edu..pt, a statement from the Ministry of Education may be needed as the basis for your registration.
- If you change the company name or contact person while the tax number stays the same, you submit a form with proof of the change, as a PDF of no more than 10 MB.
Good to know when registering
- After your application, there is a five-day period during which the registry can have your details checked. Your domain name isn't final yet during that time.
- If you don't provide the requested supporting documents in time, the registry will cancel the registration.
- The registry also checks the details of the technical contact.
- Two-character domain names are premium names. Separate conditions and a higher price apply to them.
- If you can't provide supporting documents requested later on, the registry may delete the domain name.
Transfer
Transferring a .pt
- To transfer a domain to another registrar, you need a transfer code. As the registrant, you request it yourself from the registry.
- You pass the transfer code on to your new registrar, who uses it to start the transfer.
The transfer code
- You request the transfer code in the registry's portal. You log in with the registrant's login details; if you don't know them, use the forgotten password function.
- In the portal, open the details of your domain name, go to the linked contacts and, under actions, choose to transfer the domain management.
- The registry then sends the transfer code to the registrant's email address.
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Owner
Change of registrant
Change of registrant
- If the registrant's tax number changes, this counts as a genuine change of ownership. This is handled by the registry.
- First, the current registrant must approve the change within 8 days via the link in the registry's email. The new registrant then receives a message and has 8 days to accept the transfer.
- Both the old and the new registrant need an account on the registry's portal. The registry provides the login details and there is a forgotten password function.
- The current registrant can cancel a change of ownership that has been started themselves via the registry's portal.
- If the tax number stays the same and only, for example, the company name or contact person changes, it's a regular change of details. For this, you submit a form with proof. Your domain name isn't renewed in the process and its term doesn't change.
- The new registrant's details must be verified, otherwise the change of ownership can't be completed.
Renewal, cancellation and quarantine
- After cancellation, your domain name first enters a period during which its deletion is pending.
- You can only restore your domain name if it has expired. If you expressly had the domain name deleted, it can't be restored.
More information
Registry rules and links
- Registry website dns.pt
- Dispute resolution policy dns.pt
- Registry terms and conditions dns.pt
Compiled from the registry's rules. Registries sometimes change their rules; if in doubt, the registry's terms take precedence. Updated on 11/11/2026.