.ma
.ma
Internet country code top-level domain for Morocco
.ma is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Morocco (French: Maroc). A local registrar with a local Moroccan company as administrative contact is needed to register a .ma or .co.ma domain name. Further restrictions are imposed on the registering of other second-level domains (such as .net.ma or .gov.ma).
| Introduced | 26 November 1993 |
|---|---|
| TLD type | Country code top-level domain |
| Status | Active |
| Registry | Agence Nationale de Réglementation de Télécommunications |
| Sponsor | Agence Nationale de Réglementation des Télécommunications |
| Intended use | Entities connected with  Morocco |
| Actual use | Popular in Morocco |
| Registered domains | 112,432 (2022-12-17)[1] |
| Registration restrictions | Must have a local contact |
| Structure | Registrations are made directly at the second level or at third level beneath second-level categories |
| Documents | Reglementation |
| Dispute policies | Complaints and Claims |
| Registry website | registre.ma |
| TLD type | Internationalized country code top-level domain |
|---|---|
| Status | Active |
| Actual use | Only by ANRT itself as of Nov 2016 |
In 1993, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) approved a request for delegation of the .ma ccTLD for administrative and technical contact to École Mohammadia d'ingénieurs.
In 1995 the technical management of the .ma domain was taken over by Maroc Telecom, who is still the (not formal) technical maintainer.
On 12 May 2006 IANA redesignated the administrative and technical contact for the domain, and made the Agence nationale de réglementation des télécommunications (ANRT) the only official registrar for the .ma ccTLD.[2]
Within some years the ANRT will request the market to bid on a "Technical maintainer" license which is valid for five years. The new party will get 12 months to implement a provisioning system based on Extensible Provisioning Protocol. Automatic provisioning of .ma domains cannot be expected until 2013.
March 2015 the ANRT takes official control of .ma and launches new automatic provisioning.
Registration can be done directly at the second level, or at the third level beneath these names:
- المغرب.: Arabic Right-to-left TLD for Morocco, General use
- .ma: General use
- net.ma: Internet providers
- ac.ma: Educational institutions
- org.ma: Organizations
- gov.ma: Governmental entities
- press.ma: Press and publications
- co.ma: Commercial entities
A second top-level domain will be used for Morocco intended for domain names in the local language using Arabic characters. The string المغرب. has been registered and approved for this purpose, and was delegated to Morocco in April 2011,[5] but it is not yet active (2015) and second level domains have not been granted yet.
- "registre.ma". registre.ma. 2022-12-17. Archived from the original on 2022-12-17. Retrieved 2022-12-17.
- "IANA Report on the Redelegation of the .MA Top-Level Domain". Retrieved 2008-05-03.
- "The CIA World Factbook (2012)". 22 March 2023.
- "ANALYSE DE L'EVOLUTION DU SECTEUR DES TELECOMMUNICATIONS POUR L'ANNEE 2007" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-22. Retrieved 2008-05-03.
- "IANA — .المغرب Domain Delegation Data". www.iana.org.
