| Introduced | 1993 |
|---|---|
| TLD type | Country code top-level domain |
| Status | Active |
| Registry | Maroc Telecom |
| Sponsor | Agence Nationale de Réglementation des Télécommunications |
| Intended use | Entities connected with Morocco |
| Actual use | Popular in Morocco |
| 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 | Charter |
| Dispute policies | [1] |
| Website | nic.ma |
.ma is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Morocco. A local registrar with a local Moroccan company as administrative contact is needed to register an .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).
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In 1993, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) approved a request for delegation of the .ma ccTLD for administrative and technical contact to Ecole Mohammadia d'Ingénieurs.
In 1995 the technical management of the .ma domain was taken over by Maroc Telecom is still the (not formal) technical maintainer.
On 12 May 2006 IANA redesignated the administrative and technical contact for the domain, and made ANRT the only official registrar for the .ma ccTLD.[1]
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. It is not expected that before 2013 the provisioning of .ma domains can be made completely automatic.
Registration can be done directly at the second level, or at the third level beneath these names:
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, but it is not active yet (April 2011) and lower lever domains have not been granted yet.