.tz

.tz is the ccTLD for Tanzania. It is managed by the Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority.

Rules and Restrictions

Registration directly under .tz is a premium domain name, and it is intended for registered business companies or entities.

The following names and/or uses for .tz have grounds for cancellation:

• it is identical or confusingly similar to a name whose right is recognised or established by national laws;
• it has been registered by a holder who has no rights or legitimate interest on it;
• it was registered primarily for the purpose of being sold to the person whose right is legally recognised or established in Tanzania;
• it has been registered for the purpose of preventing its real holder, who is legally recognized or established in Tanzania from reflecting that domain name in a corresponding domain name;
• it was registered primarily for the purpose of disrupting the business of a competitor;
• it was intentionally registered for attracting the Internet or website users for commercial gains by creating a likelihood of confusion with the domain name corresponding to a rightful holder who is legally recognised or established in Tanzania;
• it is a personal name for which there is no demonstrable link between the holder and the domain name registered;
• the information kept in relation to the domain name in the Central Registry is untrue, incomplete or misleading.

Characters

The registered domain names shall maintain the following conditions:

• the accepted characters are letters (a-z), digits (0-9) and the hyphen (-);
• the maximum length of not more than 63 characters;
• it must not begin or end with the hyphen; or
• contain two characters hyphens (--) in sequence.

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