New ccTLD Update | Thailand: Registrations re-open directly under .TH

TH NIC, the registry for .TH domains, is re-opening domain registrations directly under .TH from 1 August to 30 September, 2019. Domain applicants can be any natural person, juristic person, or organisation that is established in Thailand or operates under Thai law.  Furthermore the domain must be based on the name of a business, a Thai registered trademark, or an identical name under a second-level domain. Documentation will be required.

Categories of applications are ranked by highest to lowest priority as follows and applicants must specify the category of the application:

Category 1: Trade Mark name

Category 2: Identical name with name under  a second-level TLD: .CO.TH, .AC.TH, .OR.TH, etc; except for registered domain names under .IN.TH, which will not be included.

Category 3: All types of organisations that do not fall under the above categories.

Qualified applications will be announced on 1 October 2019.
Review of qualified applications will be between 1 October and 7 October 2019.
Approved applications will be announced on 8 October 2019.

Every approved “.TH” second-level name will acquire a privilege right to use one “.ไทย”” (dot thai).