Search for your .hk domain


Click on the items below for infoRegistrationTransfer
Required Documentation See below See below
Timing few minutes max 5 days
DNS Service FREE for life FREE for life
URL Redirect FREE for life FREE for life
Min/Max years 1/10 1/9
NS Verification No No
Local Presence See below See below
Restrictions No No

General info about .hk Domains

  • .hk domain names can only contain letters A-Z (case insensitive), digits 0-9 and hyphens (-);
  • Hyphens cannot be the first or last character; you cannot put 2 consecutives hiphens (--);
  • .hk domain must have minimum 2 and maximum 63 characters (extension excluded);
  • .hk domain must not include spaces;

Required Documentation

.com.hk ((show details)) Required Documentation .com.hk

- copy of the Business Registration Certificate (BR) document issued by Inland Revenue Department (IRD) of HKSARG (the company name must be that of the head office and not that of the branch)
- copy of the document Certificate of Registration of Overseas Company issued by Company Registry (CR) of HKSARG.

Registration times for .hk domains

Few minutes after the payment reception.

Free DNS management for .hk domains

Full control to manage the DNS records of the associated domains. DNS servers are globally distributed with a highly redundant structure. you can edit SOA, A, AAAA, MX, CNAME, and NS records.

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Free Url Redirect for .hk domains

Visitors who will type the domain name will be redirected to another web space / URL. URL redirects are of two types:

  1. Forwarding URLs : Redirects the domain name to another web address; in the address bar the destination address will be shown;
  2. Alias: Makes the domain name point to a hosting plan already purchased on ormag.com; the address bar will continue to show the domain name
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Maximum period of registration for .hk domains

.hk domains can be registered for minimum 1 year and maximum 10 years and, of course, always be renewed by the owner.

Maximum number of .hk domains registered per owner

No limits.

NS check for .hk domains

It is not needed to set Nameservers before registering the domain.
Nameservers must be between 2 and 13; it's not necessary for Nameservers to reside in different subnets. If you don't insert the Nameservers in the Profile, during the Registration Process, the Ormag ones will be used. You will be able to change them anytime.

Local Presence

.com.hk ((show details)) Local Presence .com.hk

.com.hr domains can only be applied for by companies that are duly registered and present in Hong Kong.
Ormag offers the Local Presence service for each domain name to be registered / transferred click here
This service will be renewed annually
With the purchase of the domiciliation service, however, the following documentation must be produced:
- copy of the Chamber of Commerce Visura in English;
- copy of the identity document of the legal representative.

Restrictions about .hk domains

  • .hk domain names are not subject to particular restrictions; they can be registered by both legal persons and natural persons even if not resident in Hong Kong;
  • legal persons will have to state their registration number;
  • for registering .hk domain names containing words such as "public" - "bank" - "guarentee" - "insurance" or similar, it is mandatory to send documentation attesting the right to use those words. Upon this founding concept, the Authority keeps the right to decide if to register a name or not, as stated in article 7.2 (reserved domain names, points 5-6-7);
  • it is right of the Authority to auction .hk reserved domain names, with a notice of eventual future auctions on the website, 30 days before the auction;
  • .hk domain names can be deleted by the Authority if they are not visible online or if nameservers are not well configured, within 30 days since registration.
Third level domains .COM.HK can be requested only by legal persons resident in Hong Kong.

.hk domain transfer

  • both the actual and future domain registrants will have to fill the transfer form with joint signature;
  • further needed documentation:
    1. for legal persons, a copy of the registration certificate of the actual and future registrants' companies;
    2. for natural persons, a copy of an ID (passport or identity card) of actual and future registrants;
  • the transfer procedure corresponds to the domain re-registration. For this reason, the expiration date will be modified after the transfer. For domain management operations (transfer, data modification, etc…) an extra fee will have to be paid.

Restore .hk domains

For information about .hk restore, please contact us.

IMPORTANT: none of our contracts is automatically or tacitly renewed. Two months before the expiration date, you will be contacted by Ormag by e-mail and will be able to decide on the renewal of the expiring services.