Country extension · Puerto Rico
.pr domain name
What you need to know about .pr: who can register it, which details are required and how transferring works.
Specifications
The key details of .pr
- Country
- Puerto Rico
- Registry
- nic.pr
- Registration period
- 1 to 10 years
- Renewal period
- 1 to 9 years
- Domain name length
- 3 to 63 characters
- Time to registration
- immediately
- Renewal on transfer
- yes, transferring renews the domain
- Transfer code length
- 6 to 16 characters
- Transfer lock available
- yes
- Number of nameservers
- 1 to 13
- Renewable after expiry date
- 43 days
- Quarantine after deletion
- 30 days
Features
- DNSSEC: yesYou can secure your domain name with DNSSEC.
- IPv6: yesThe nameservers for this extension can also be reached over IPv6.
- Special characters: no
- Whois privacy: yesYour details can be hidden in the public Whois.
- Trustee: no
Requirements
Who can register a .pr?
- There are no registration requirements for .pr: anyone can register a domain name.
Good to know when registering
- After a successful registration, the registry places a 60-day transfer lock on your domain name. During that period, you can't transfer it to another registrar.
Transfer
Transferring a .pr
- Your domain name must be more than 60 days old. If it's newer, the transfer will be refused.
- You need a valid transfer code. If the code is incorrect, the transfer will fail.
- Check beforehand that there's no lock on the domain name. You can see this in the WHOIS. If there is a lock, you as the registrant can demand that your current registrar removes it.
- Start the transfer in good time, not just before the domain name expires.
The transfer code
- A transfer code is required to transfer a domain.
- The registrant or the administrative contact of the domain name requests the code from the current registrar.
Owner
Change of registrant
- If you want to change the registrant's name or organisation, that's not a regular update of the contact details but a change of registrant.
More information
Registry rules and links
- Registry website nic.pr
- Registry whois nic.pr
- Dispute resolution policy nic.pr
Compiled from the registry's rules. Registries sometimes change their rules; if in doubt, the registry's terms take precedence. Updated on 11/11/2026.