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    • .ma

    Country-code top-level domainsDNSSEC

    Overview

    • .ma is the country-code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Morocco — the letters "ma" derive from the country's French name, Maroc.
    • Introduced: 26 November 1993.
    • Registry / sponsor: Agence Nationale de Réglementation des Télécommunications (ANRT).
    • Structure: registrations are allowed directly at the second level (example.ma) or at the third level beneath designated second-level categories (example.co.ma).
    • Adoption: described as popular in Morocco.

    History

    • 26 November 1993: IANA approved delegation of the .ma ccTLD and assigned administrative/technical contact to École Mohammadia d'ingénieurs.
    • 1995: Technical management was taken over (informally) by Maroc Telecom.
    • 12 May 2006: IANA redesignated the administrative and technical contact and made ANRT the official registrar for .ma.
    • Plans were made to issue a five-year "technical maintainer" license and move to automated provisioning; ANRT launched automatic provisioning in March 2015.
    • Internationalized ccTLD: the Arabic string المغرب. was delegated to Morocco in April 2011; as of 2015 it was not active for general registrations and, as of November 2016, only ANRT had used it.

    Usage and Audience

    • Intended use: entities connected with Morocco; widely used within the country.
    • Common second-level categories and typical use cases:
      • .ma — general use
      • .co.ma — commercial entities
      • .net.ma — internet service providers
      • .ac.ma — academic and educational institutions
      • .org.ma — organizations
      • .gov.ma — governmental entities
      • .press.ma — press and publications
    • As of 2024-07-03: 118,471 registered .ma domains.

    Registration Rules

    Eligibility

    • A local registrar and a local Moroccan company as administrative contact are required to register a .ma or .co.ma domain name.
    • Any natural or legal person may apply (per registry FAQs), but specific second-level categories (e.g., .gov.ma) impose further restrictions.

    Structure

    • Registrations permitted at the second level (example.ma) and at the third level beneath defined second-level labels (example.co.ma, example.org.ma, etc.).

    Allowed characters

    • Letters: non-accented a–z (case-insensitive; registrations may use lowercase or uppercase).
    • Accented letters allowed: à, â, ç, è, é, ê, ë, î, ï, ô, ù, û, ü, ÿ.
    • Numbers: 0–9.
    • Hyphen (-): allowed but subject to placement rules (see Constraints).

    Constraints

    • A domain cannot consist of a single character.

    • Maximum length: 63 characters.

    • Domain names may not begin or end with a hyphen.

    • Hyphens are not allowed in the 3rd or 4th positions.

    • No spaces are permitted in domain names.

    • Additional restrictions may apply to registrations under specific second-level domains (for example, government or educational labels).

    Operator

    Agence Nationale de Réglementation des Télécommunications (ANRT)

    Whois

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domain:       MA

organisation: Agence Nationale de Réglementation des Télécommunications (ANRT)
address:      Avenue Ennakhil, Complexe d'Affaires
address:      Aile Sud, Hay Ryad
address:      Rabat 10100
address:      Morocco

contact:      administrative
name:         General Director of ANRT
organisation: Agence Nationale de Réglementation des Télécommunications (ANRT)
address:      Avenue Ennakhil, Complexe d'Affaires
address:      Aile Sud, Hay Ryad
address:      Rabat 10100
address:      Morocco
phone:        +212 537 71 86 01
fax-no:       +212 537 20 38 62
e-mail:       ma@anrt.ma

contact:      technical
name:         TLD Technical Contact
organisation: Agence Nationale de Réglementation des Télécommunications (ANRT)
address:      Avenue Ennakhil, Complexe d'Affaires
address:      Aile Sud, Hay Ryad
address:      Rabat 10100
address:      Morocco
phone:        +212 537 71 84 08
fax-no:       +212 537 20 38 62
e-mail:       ma@anrt.ma

nserver:      A.TLD.MA 2001:4288:1800:186:0:0:0:3 81.192.171.131 81.192.171.83
nserver:      B.TLD.MA 2001:4288:1800:186:0:0:0:4 81.192.171.132 81.192.171.84
nserver:      C.TLD.MA 2001:4288:1800:386:0:0:0:3 81.192.171.115 81.192.171.139
nserver:      D.TLD.MA 2001:4288:1800:386:0:0:0:4 81.192.171.116 81.192.171.140
nserver:      DNS.INRIA.FR 193.51.208.13
nserver:      E.TLD.MA 105.73.80.236
nserver:      F.TLD.MA 2c0f:fb20:100:fc:0:0:0:33 41.214.240.4
nserver:      NS-MA.NIC.FR 194.0.9.1 2001:678:c:0:0:0:0:1
ds-rdata:     3254 8 2 a7a6874e207948d079fa7037a7ec89c890cc748c6dddb00523b832991b806aa0

whois:        whois.registre.ma

status:       ACTIVE
remarks:      Registration information: http://www.registre.ma

created:      1993-11-26
changed:      2025-06-08
source:       IANA

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