: Do websites that use the .com tld need to represent a commercial company? It’s well known that most top level domains set requirements for their subscriber, even if there’s several registrars.

@Heady270

There are very few restrictions on registering .com domains. 101domain.com has a page listing them. The only restrictions are:


Violating rights of third parties, illegal activities including viruses and hacking tools, obscene and abusive materials, and any names contrary to the government of the United States.

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Domain Names must:


have minimum of 3 and a maximum of 63 characters;
begin with a letter or a number and end with a letter or a number;
use the English character set and may contain letters (i.e. , a-z, A-Z), numbers (i.e. 0-9) and dashes (-) or a combination of these;
neither begin with, nor end with a dash;
not contain a dash in the third and fourth positions (e.g. ab--cd.com); and
not include a space (e.g. ab cd.com).

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@Courtney195

The .com TLD is very popular. You don't have to be a business to register a .com domain name. As you already noted, there are restrictions for domain names with a country TLD.

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