| Country: | Portugal |
| Continent: | Europe |
| Capital: | Lisbon |
| Location: | 38°46'N 9°9'W |
| Area: | 92090 |
| Population: | 10561614 |
| Time Zone: | WET (UTC+0) / Summer WEST (UTC+1) |
| Calling Code: | 351 |
Zone Info
.PT is the official country code Top-Level-Domain (ccTLD) of Portugal.
Zone Use
The registration of a *.PT domain name depends on below policies for the single .PT zone.
Characters
- Minimum: .PT 3 all other 3rds 2
- Maximum: 63
- Letters and numbers
- Hyphens ("-"), however not at the beginning or directly in front of the TLD
- Allowed IDN characters: á à â ã ç é ê í ó ô õ ú
IDN info
Registering a domain with special characters does not imply any changes to the way the registration is carried out. For the time being, only the following special characters in the Portuguese alphabet have been considered: (`) grave accent, (´) acute accent, (^) circumflex accent and (~) tilde. These characters only make sense when applied to the Portuguese language (à; á; â; ã; ç; é; ê; í; ó; ô; õ; ú).
Restrictions
- The tech-contact for the domain will be validated by the registry.
- Name-servers have to be pre-configured before the registration. The configuration can be checked here.
- The domains registered in. PT may not:
- Correspond to words or expressions contrary to law, public order or morality
- Correspond to any top level Internet domain name in existence or in the process of being created
- Correspond to names that would mislead or cause confusion about their ownership, namely, by coinciding with notorious or prestigious trademarks that belong to another
- Correspond to any protocols, applications or terms of the Internet
- Correspond to a geographical name
