Country code for Spain   Use Companies or private entities that are located in Spain mainly use this TLD.   Legal requirements When registering a .es domain name you should have a trademark that is registered at the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office. European and World trademarks are also accepted.   Technical requirements No special requirements   Naming conventions All letters (a-z) and numbers (0-9) are allowed; hyphens (-) are also allowed, however not at the beginning or at the end of the domain name. A domain name should be between 3 and 63 characters long.   Registration term 1 to 20 years

General information .es domain names transfers to UniNames are possible. The transfer itself is free, but is considered as a new registration; therefore a 1-year fee will be charged (or more years on request). Exactly 1 year after you have transferred your domain name, it will expire. Keep in mind that any remaining registration time at your former agent will be lost.

Updates The following domain name information can be updated through your UniNames domain control panel.     Processing Owner contact Within 12h Admin contact Within 12h Technical contact Within 12h Billing contact Within 12h Name servers Within 12h*   * Changes are processed in real-time but due to the nature of the domain name system it might take 24 to 48 hours before the changes are propagated worldwide. The Portuguese registration office can always reject a requested change whenever this is not compliant with their rules. The .es WHOIS zone files are updated every 24 hours. Updates can be done by any UniNames account having edit permissions on the domain name.

Renewal The billing contact of the domain name will automatically receive an invoice to renew the domain name. If the invoice is paid before the domain name expires, the domain name will be renewed. Note the importance of correct billing information! UniNames must have received the payment at least 10 days after the expiration date. Otherwise the domain name will be deleted. If the owner or the billing contact asks us to let the domain name expire: the domain owner will be notified by e-mail the domain billing contact will be notified by e-mail the accounts with permissions on the domain name will be notified by e-mail