.ht

.ht is the ccTLD for Haiti. It is managed by the Consortium FDS/RDDH.

Rules and Restrictions

In general, the assignment of a domain name within the ".ht" namespace is open to any Applicant, whether they are Haitian or not, and whether they have a legal presence in the country or not. The use of the domain name, the management of administrative actions, and the associated sites and content are primarily subject to Haitian law and then to any regulations and procedures of Latin American and Caribbean Association of ccTLDs (LACTLD) and ICANN.

A number of terms cannot be registered as domain names, regardless of the extension considered, without presenting the appropriate justification. Terms that are synonyms or have a common etymological root with these terms will also be rejected. This includes fundamental terms:

• related to public order or good morals;
• related to the functioning of the Internet;
• names of international organizations and countries or territories listed in the ISO-3166-1 standard of the International Standards Organization,
• related to historical and cultural heritage.

The same restriction applies to the term "Haiti," the names of Haitian territorial communities, cities, municipalities, or national heritage buildings reserved for them, as well as the names of professions, public and private companies, and regulated titles (both singular and plural), except as otherwise provided in the nic.ht Charter.

Second-level Domains

The Naming Zone is subdivided into four sectoral categories:

• category I: Commercial or professional entities, for-profit;
• category II: Entities with a public service character or civil society organizations, non-profit;
• category III: Individuals, families.

Category I

.ht: for large companies wishing to register directly under the .ht root; .com.ht: for for-profit companies in general; .shop.ht: for businesses offering products for sale on the Web, online stores; .info.ht: for entities providing information services: radio, print media, television, etc.; .firm.ht: for companies offering professional services, firms, consulting companies, etc.; .adult.ht: for websites with content suitable only for adults; .net.ht: for entities providing network services or Internet access, etc.; .pro.ht: for professionals and consultants; .art.ht: for entities involved in cultural, artistic, or tourism-related activities;

Category II

.asso.ht: for associations of individuals and legal entities; .edu.ht: for schools, universities, and any other entity offering educational services; .rel.ht: for religious entities; .gouv.ht: for central government entities. Decentralized services, agencies, and administrative entities will use the geopolitical structure; .org.ht: for non-profit organizations, NGOs; .med.ht: for institutions in the healthcare sector, clinics, hospitals; .pol.ht: for political parties and any other politically oriented organization; .coop.ht: For cooperatives of all kinds.

Category III

.perso.ht: for personal or family websites.

Characters

The following are permitted:

• letters of the alphabet from "A" to "Z" (upper or lower case without distinction), numbers from "0" to "9", and the symbol "-" (hyphen), excluding any other symbols;
• domain names with a maximum length of 255 characters (63 characters between each "." or "label");
• domain names directly under the ".ht" root consisting of at least one letter ("a.ht") or one number ("2.ht");
• domain names under the ".ht" extensions consisting of at least one character (a.perso.ht/2.asso.ht).

The "." (dot) is used as a separator for subdomains in sectoral domain categories and naming conventions.

The following are prohibited:

• domain names starting or ending with the "-" (hyphen) character;
• accented characters. Note that only the letter will be retained in cases where a letter is associated with accented characters (e.g., ñ, ë will be registered as n and e, respectively).