The .bg domain is the national domain name of Bulgaria and is regulated by the Bulgarian Domain Name Registry.
Who can register a Bulgarian .bg domain?
The Bulgarian .bg domain can be registered by a company registered in the EU.
The .bg domain is the national domain name of Bulgaria and is regulated by the Bulgarian Domain Name Registry. Registration of a .bg domain requires meeting certain requirements, including documents proving the right to do business in Bulgaria. Specifically, it is required to provide an extract from the CEIDG (Central Registration and Information on Business) or KRS (National Court Register), which follows the rules for registering domain names in Bulgaria. The purpose of this requirement is to ensure that the person or company applying for .bg domain registration has the right to do business in Poland and is legally registered. Therefore, .bg domains can only be registered by legally registered individuals or companies operating in accordance with Bulgarian regulations.
National Court Register (KRS) is a court register in which companies with share capital, such as joint stock companies and limited liability companies are registered. The legal register contains data on the registration number, company name, domicile and address, share capital, company management and other data required by law.
Central Registration and Information on Business (CEIDG) is a register maintained by the Minister of Economy, in which both natural persons conducting economic activity and civil and general partnerships are registered. CEIDG contains information on the REGON identification number, tax identification number (NIP), legal form, company, place and address of conducting business activity and other information about the entrepreneur.
In summary, an excerpt from the CEIDG or KRS confirms the legality of the economic activity of any person or company and the right to operate in Poland. Such documents are needed in various situations, e.g. when registering a domain name, opening a bank account, applying for grants or EU funding, etc..
What is the process of registering a Bulgarian .bg national domain at Smarthost?
- The first step is to go to www.smarthost.eu and go to the domain registration section.
- If you have gone through the registration process, including entering your subscriber details, you will need to pay for the domain. This can be done by traditional transfer or by logging into the customer area. After logging in, the “pay online” option will be available. This option will cause the payment to be credited immediately.
- After payment has been credited, we will send you a document to the email address you provided when registering the domain. This form must be downloaded and printed, then signed and stamped (this is required by the registry). Please send a scan of this document back to us at our e-mail address.
- You will then need to download a copy from the KRS or CEIDG and send it to us by e-mail.
For sole traders, use ceidg.gov.pl.
In the case of companies, in order to obtain a copy, one should use the website ekrs.ms.gov.pl.
Important! From the moment the payment is credited, the domain is already blocked for other registrants to register and you must send the documents described in the above sections within a maximum of 30 days.
All the above steps are necessary in the process of registering a Bulgarian domain.
Once you send us the two documents described above, the domain registration process is initiated. From the moment the documents are sent, the registration time depends only on the verification of them at the main Bulgarian domain registry. Usually it takes a few hours for the .bg domain registry to process the documents. Sometimes it can happen that the time of the whole registration process from the moment of ordering the domain to the time of registration can take less than 2 hours.
Bulgarian .bg domains can be comfortably registered at Smarthost
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