{"id":657,"date":"2021-06-08T01:17:34","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T01:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.capconnect.com\/blog\/?p=657"},"modified":"2021-06-08T16:36:32","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T16:36:32","slug":"ma-domain-name-morocco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.capconnect.com\/blog\/en\/ma-domain-name-morocco\/","title":{"rendered":"Growth of .MA Domain Name Market in 2020 in Morocco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2020, The Moroccan ccTLD <\/span><b>.<\/b><a title=\"ma domain name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.capconnect.com\/en\/morocco-domain-name\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><b>ma domain name<\/b><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">witnessed an unprecedented increase of new registrations \u00a0 with 19.37% more compared to 2019 and with an average monthly increase of 2,506 domain names.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_38 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\">Table de mati&egrave;res<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" style=\"display: none;\"><label for=\"item\" aria-label=\"Table des mati\u00e8res\"><span style=\"display: flex;align-items: center;width: 35px;height: 30px;justify-content: center;\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"item\"><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.capconnect.com\/blog\/en\/ma-domain-name-morocco\/#Impact_of_COVID-19_on_ma_domain_name_in_2020\" title=\"Impact of COVID-19 on .ma domain name in 2020\">Impact of COVID-19 on .ma domain name in 2020<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.capconnect.com\/blog\/en\/ma-domain-name-morocco\/#How_to_register_a_ma_domain_name\" title=\"How to register a .ma domain name?\">How to register a .ma domain name?<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Impact_of_COVID-19_on_ma_domain_name_in_2020\"><\/span>Impact of COVID-19 on .ma domain name in 2020<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Registry statistics published by ANRT, the Moroccan administrator for the<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/.ma\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"> .MA country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD)<\/a>, highlighted the extent to which businesses and individuals have pivoted online through the COVID-19 pandemic and associated restrictions.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> ANRT <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">reported that the .MA registrations increased by 19.37% compared to 2019 to reach 93,506 domain names being registered by the end of 2020. 30,559 additional .ma domains were registered last year, with an average of 2,506 registrations per month. However these figures are very minimal compared to the world market which represents around 370.7 million domain names\u00a0 under various extensions (the .com and others .net).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-660 size-full\" title=\".ma domain name\" src=\"https:\/\/www.capconnect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/evolution-of-.ma-portfolio-1.jpg\" alt=\".ma domain name\" width=\"784\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.capconnect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/evolution-of-.ma-portfolio-1.jpg 784w, https:\/\/www.capconnect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/evolution-of-.ma-portfolio-1-300x134.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.capconnect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/evolution-of-.ma-portfolio-1-768x342.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.capconnect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/evolution-of-.ma-portfolio-1-585x260.jpg 585w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 784px) 100vw, 784px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Evolution of .ma domain registration in 2020<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is believed that COVID-19 was behind the spike of .MA new registrations\u00a0 in 2020. For instance, since the declaration of the World Health Organization COVID-19 as a pandemic on March 11, 2020 the market of domain names skyrocketed around the world, being online was a necessity for every individual and business to survive during this difficult unprecedented crisis.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"How_to_register_a_ma_domain_name\"><\/span>How to register a .ma domain name?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.MA domain name can be registered by an individual or a company residents of Morocco as well as to individuals and companies abroad, with the condition that they should designate an administrative contact established in Morocco. The request for a <\/span><b>.MA domain name registration<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> can be done through an accredited registrar such as CAP CONNECT, which is one of the major .ma registrars and <\/span><a title=\"web hosting\" href=\"https:\/\/www.capconnect.com\/en\/web-hosting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><b>web hosting providers in Morocco<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The registrar is in charge of maintaining and managing the registration of the domain names and providing an online interface through which the owner of the domain name can easily manage his domain name and its related services such as<a title=\"change name servers .ma\" href=\"https:\/\/support.capconnect.com\/knowledgebase\/changer-serveurs-dns-nom-de-domaine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> changing the name servers<\/a> and updating the DNS zone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The majority of .MA domain registrations and renewals are done for a period of one year only, for instance in 2019, 95.3% of domain names were registered for a period of one year and 93.6% were renewed for one year. Obviously, domain names that are not renewed are automatically deleted from the registry 30 days after their expiration.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2020, The Moroccan ccTLD .ma domain name witnessed an unprecedented increase of new registrations \u00a0 with 19.37% more compared to 2019 and with an average monthly increase of 2,506&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":671,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212,210],"tags":[214,218,216],"class_list":["post-657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-domain-names","category-news","tag-ma-domain-name","tag-domain-name-morocco","tag-morocco-domain-name"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.capconnect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.capconnect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.capconnect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.capconnect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.capconnect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.capconnect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1172,"href":"https:\/\/www.capconnect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions\/1172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.capconnect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.capconnect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.capconnect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.capconnect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}