Domain Names

Provision on the procedure for registration and use of domain names in the "UZ" domain approved by the Order of the General Director of the Uzbek Agency for Communications and Informatization, registered on 23.06.2008, reg. number 1830.

Filing

Country code top-level domain name: .uz 

Sub-domains: available (for a complete list, please consult: https://cctld.uz/specdomain). 

Applicant: individuals and legal entities. 

Restriction as to nationality: none. 

Local presence: not required. 

Domestic trademark right: not required for obtaining domain name registration. 

Domain name can be registered as a trademark: yes.

Registration, Protection

Duration: one to ten years.

Renewal/maintenance: one to ten years, renewable.

Dispute about ownership: to be brought before the court.

Uniform dispute resolution procedure: none.

Prohibited ways of using a domain name: for the purposes of cybersquatting, registration or use of a domain name in violation of the rights of third parties in order to obtain benefits or other type of advantage; identical or confusingly similar to domain names registered or applied for registration in Uzbekistan in the name of another person, as well as protected without registration or having an earlier priority by virtue of international treaties of Uzbekistan, with domain names that are the name of the place of origin of goods, with brand names (except when they are included as unprotected element); for the purposes of domain grabbing, intentional registration by one person of a large number of domain names expressing basic concepts or consisting of basic concepts, in order to resell them to potentially interested parties for a price significantly higher than the actual costs spent on registration and use of the domain name, gaining an advantage over potential competitors, preventing potential competitors from accessing the market of goods and services, hindering the entrepreneurial activity of competing economic entities; exclusively for transferring it to a certain third party, if such an action is caused by the selfish intention of the applicant, aimed at obtaining benefits, calculated on the potential interest of a third party or other potentially interested person.

Registration Authority

Authority name: UZINFOCOM.

Internet address: https://cctld.uz