.PT domains

This guide details the particularities of the .PT domain extension (for Portugal), including administrative procedures during registration or transfer, rules established by the entity responsible for the management of Portuguese domain names (DNS.PT).

New .pt domain registration

If you are registering for the first time (anywhere, regardless of the Registrar where you do it) a new domain name with the .pt extension from your Manager, we request an ID for the owner and the technical contact.

This ID, which is mandatory, represents for companies:

• their tax ID (intra-community VAT number without the country letters)

and for individuals:

• passport number or identity card number.

Once the order is placed, the domain will then have the status "registered" but will not be actually active until 5 days after its creation date.

It is possible to order additional .pt domains from Infomaniak but if you want to order them elsewhere, with the same contact details, this will no longer be possible (read below).

If you have already registered a .pt domain

DNS.PT only accepts one active contact per ID, regardless of the Registrar.

In practice, this means that if you have already registered a .pt domain elsewhere, we cannot create your contact file with the same ID and register the ordered domains. The only solution is for you to transfer all your .pt domains to Infomaniak.

As mentioned above, it is perfectly possible to order other .pt domain names from Infomaniak.