.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).

History

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'Ing nieurs.

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.

Practical information

• Total hosts of .ma: 36,669 (04/10/2010)^[2]

• Total internet users in Morocco: 7,300,000 (2006)^[3]

• Total ADSL connection in Morocco: 550,000 (2007)^[4]

Second-level domains

Registration can be done directly at the second level, or at the third level beneath these names:

• .ma: General use
• net.ma: Internet providers
• ac.ma: educational institutions
• org.ma: organizations
• gov.ma: governmental entities
• press.ma: the press and publications
• co.ma: commercial entities

Second top-level domain

A second top-level domain will be used for Morocco intended for domain names in the local language using Arabic characters. The string . has been registered and approved for this purpose, but it is not yet active (April 2011) and lower level domains have not been granted yet.

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External links

• IANA .ma whois information
• DotMaroc Official .ma Domain Registrar

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