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.ma

.ma is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Morocco (French: Maroc). A local registrar with a local Moroccan company as administrative contact is needed to register a .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).

For the Maya ASCII file format, see Maya (software).

Introduced

26 November 1993

Active

Entities connected with  Morocco

Popular in Morocco

112,432 (2022-12-17)[1]

Must have a local contact

Registrations are made directly at the second level or at third level beneath second-level categories

Active

Only by ANRT itself as of Nov 2016

History[edit]

In 1993, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) approved a request for delegation of the .ma ccTLD for administrative and technical contact to École Mohammadia d'ingénieurs.


In 1995 the technical management of the .ma domain was taken over by Maroc Telecom, who is still the (not formal) technical maintainer.


On 12 May 2006 IANA redesignated the administrative and technical contact for the domain, and made the Agence nationale de réglementation des télécommunications (ANRT) the only official registrar for the .ma ccTLD.[2]


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. Automatic provisioning of .ma domains cannot be expected until 2013.


March 2015 the ANRT takes official control of .ma and launches new automatic provisioning.

Total hosts of .ma: 112,432 (2022-12-17)

[1]

Total internet users in Morocco: 19,021,000 (2016)

[3]

Total ADSL connection in Morocco: 550,000 (2007)

[4]

المغرب.: Arabic TLD for Morocco, General use

Right-to-left

.ma: General use

net.ma: Internet providers

ac.ma: Educational institutions

org.ma: Organizations

gov.ma: Governmental entities

press.ma: Press and publications

co.ma: Commercial entities

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

Second top-level domain[edit]

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, and was delegated to Morocco in April 2011,[5] but it is not yet active (2015) and second level domains have not been granted yet.

IANA .ma whois information

ANRT Registry website

List of .MA Domain registrars

.MA Domain whois