Top level domain is the rightmost part of a domain name. For example, .com, .edu, .net, .org, .gov, .mil, .info are some of the most commonly used top level domains.

A Top Level Domain is assigned for every country to represent the country in the Internet world. For example .uk, .jp , .bd , .au are the ccTLD of United Kingdom, Japan, Bangladesh and Australia respectively. [ccTLD list] . A two letter country code specified by the ISO 3166-1 standard is used for this purpose.

Visit www.btcl.gov.bd or, www.btcl.net.bd and download the application form and a copy of agreement form. For details, Subscribers can contact the Administration and Co-ordination Division Office, BTCL, Mogbazar Telephone Bhaban, Moghbazar, Dhaka-1217.

Ministry of Post, Telecommunications and ICT, Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh, is the sponsoring organization of .bd ccTLD. Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Ltd. (BTCL) has been delegated to maintain the registration service.

Prescribed .bd domain Registration form and a .bd Agreement form must be filled up, signed and sent to The Office of the Divisional Engineer(Administration and Co-ordination), 5th Floor, Moghbazar Telephone Bhaban, Moghbazar, Dhaka-1217. A Demand Note will be issued, clearly mentioning the amount to be paid and the place of payment. One paid copy of the demand note must be returned to the same office to expedite the procedure. After receiving the paid copy, the registration will be completed.

Visit www.btcl.gov.bd or, www.btcl.net.bd to download the application form and a copy of agreement.

Can’t. Online application is not offered till now.

Registration fee with Service charge for two years is 1500 Tk. Renewal fee from 3rd year is 800 Tk. per year. 15% VAT shall be applied for all case.

To get updated details visit the link http://www.btcl.gov.bd/rate/rate.htm and have a look at the Domain Registration (.bd).

No, a domain directly under .bd is not allowed. For example “abc.bd” for a certain company “abc” is not allowed. But a domain of the form “abc.com.bd” or, “abc.net.bd” etc. is valid.

Presently .com, .edu, .ac, .net, .gov, .org, .mil are available. But “.gov” and “.mil” are reserved for “Government” and “Defense” organizations respectively. Registration of domains under such categories should be initiated by concerned authority.

You can select any name other than generic terms, name of professions, services, products, sports etc. as a domain name. For example, “Doctor”, “Lawyer”, “Rice”, “School” etc. are not acceptable. Any domain name offending our social practices, culture, religions, and respected personalities will not be accepted.

No, providing IP or, e-mail account is not relevant to domain registration service.

To activate the domain name, you must provide the Names and IP addresses(In case of same domain) of Primary and Secondary Domain Name Server (DNS).

Domain names are held in a distributed database. Your “Domain Name Server” holds the name and IP address of all the machines in your domain. Whenever any machine in the internet tries to locate a machine in your domain, (that is under .bd domain), the request is first forwarded to .bd name server. The .bd name server then looks up the name of your domain’s name server in its database. Then it responds mentioning the name of your “Domain Name Server” as the ultimate authority to give that information. Your “Domain Name Server” is then queried about that machine and the IP address is obtained from it.

In that case the domain name will be reserved for you but it will be inoperative.

Administrative contact must be from the registrant organization. Technical contact may be anybody authorized by the registrant.

Changes in information should be conveyed in written to the office of the Divisional Engineer(Administration and Co-ordination), 5th Floor, Moghbazar Telephone Bhaban, Moghbazar, Dhaka-1217. Fax: 9357877. It must be signed by the registrant or, administrative/ technical contact personel of the domain.

Network utility tools like “nslookup” or “dig” and browsing whois.btcl.net.bd can be helpful for this purpose, making .bd Domain name server “dns.bd” as the default server.

It is a general practice to separate two types of activities associated with the control of a domain. “Administrative contact personnel” is the ultimate authority of a domain. “Technical contact personnel” deals with the technical aspects of that domain. If the two contacts are not same, in that case, particulars of both contacts personnel must be mentioned.