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Regulations on Registration of Domain Names
For International under the Top Level Domain “Kh”
The Minister of Posts and Telecommunications having seen:

  • The constitution of Cambodia    

  • The Decree No NS RKT 1198 72 dated 30 November 1998 on the formation of the Government of Cambodia.

  • The Decree No 02.NS.94 dated 20 July 1994 on the establishment of the Council of Ministers.     

  • The Decree No NS RKM 0196-20 dated 24 January 1996 on the establishment of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications.

  • The Sub-decree No 66  GNRKBK dated 22 October 1997  on the organization and conduct of Posts and Telecommunications

  • The resolution No 154 SSR dated 11 December 1991 by the Council of Ministers on the tariffs.

Decides :

  1. Scope

The purpose of this document is the allow person and other legal entities, or their agents, apply for registration of a new Domain Name.

  1.  Definitions

Top Level Domain Name is the country code name, eg. “kh” for Cambodia that normally appears last in any Internet name.

Second Level Domain Name is the that appears one level to the left of the LTD, eg. com, edu, gov, org, etc,.

Third Level Domain Name is the name  that appears one level to the left of second level  domain name. This is the name that is normally applied for by public, eg. abc.com.kh.

The DNS Administrator is the person in charge of registration of domain names and confirms it on behalf of the Internet community.
  1. Rules and Naming Structure under the Top Level Domain “Kh”

    2. 3-1 Policies for registration of Second and Third Level Domain Names under the
    TLD “kh” are as follows:  

    *  The name must conform to the relevant technical Internet requirements. A domain Name ideally needs to be between 3 and 12 characters(-), but not at the beginning or the end of the name. No spaces are allowed            
    *  A name may be rejected if that name is considered to be offensive or inappropriate. 

    3-2 Second Level Domain Names

     The Current Second  Level Domain Names, in accordance with wide practice in  the Internet world, are listed as follows:

    • .per.kh       Personal.
    • .com.kh     Commercial entities.
    • .edu.kh      Education institutions below the network providers.
    • .gov.kh       Government institutions.
    • .mil.kh       Military institutions
    • .net.kh       Only for the computers of network providers.
    • .org.kh       Organizations of a variety of structure/composition.

    The DNS administrator may further delegate the management of portions of the naming tree..

    3-3 Conflict in Third Level Domain Names

    Third Level Domain Names must conform to the general structure as stated in Paragraph 3.1
    A domain name should resemble the company name or be identical to the company name.

    Each applicant  may find out from the DNNS administrator is not responsible for the name chosen by each applicant if later found unsuitable by other entities. However, if a conflict occurs during the registration procedure, DNS administrator will withhold the process until the case has been settled in a written legal agreement signed by both parties.

    3-3-1      For Domain Names that are identical to trade names the DNS Administrator will
    assign the Domain Name to the company that has registration at the Ministry of Commerce even though that Domain Name had already been assigned to the other Company.

    3-3-2     The same rule applies to Company name

    3-3-3     If there is conflict between trade name and company name, trade name has priority.

    3-3-4     For DNS names that are not identical to trade name or company name, DNS administrator will assign on a first come first served basis

    3-3-5        Certain names are not allowed, e.g. Cambodia

  4- Registration and Fees

  • The application shall be made to the DNS Administrator at the following Address shown in Paragraph 8.
  • The fee for the registration of a Domain Name is US$100. This covers the first 12 months from the date of the Domain Name certified by the DNS Administrator.
  • A new registration fee is payable for any change of Domain Name.
  • Registration fee is non-refundable.

Removal of a domain name is free of charge.

5. Renewal Fees
 The annual renewal fee is US$60
To find out date of expiration, please access our DNS homepage. Fees are non refundable.
The DNS administration will inform the applicant by E-mail 30 days prior to expiry requesting applicant to pay another year’s annual fee to be entitled to continue using the Domain    Name. Penalty fee of 2% per month for late payment shall apply.

   6.  Revocation of a Domain Name

A domain name will be de-registered in the event that the fee is not paid within 60 days of the due date.

   7. Transfer of Domain Name   

Domain name should be used by the designated holder as stated in the application only. Any transfer of name shall be accompanied with a new application with the registration fee payable.

  8. DNS Administrator

The E-mail address of the DNS Administrator is dns-admin@dns.net.kh
The DNS Administrator is located in :

MPTC
Corner of streets Preah Ang Eng and Ang Non,
Sangkat What Phnom,
Phnom Penh

         This regulation supersedes the regulation No 1614 MPTC dated 10th August 1999

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