Introduced | 10 July 1997 |
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TLD type | Country code top-level domain |
Status | Active |
Registry | GETESA |
Sponsor | GETESA |
Intended use | Entities connected with Equatorial Guinea |
Actual use | Sees relatively rare use, mostly not in Equatorial Guinea. |
Registration restrictions | Free domains available with some restrictions; paid registrations for legal ownership have no activity requirement |
Documents | Registration Agreement (free domains) Registration Agreement (paid domains) |
Dispute policies | UDRP (paid domains only) |
Registry website | www |
.gq is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Equatorial Guinea. Freenom relaunched the TLD on October 1, 2014, and domains became available for free on January 1, 2015.[1][2] Following Freenom's lawsuit with Meta and its settlement in 2024,[3] it is unclear who will take up registration of the domain, as the company announced it would be exiting the domain business.
The .gq registry allows the creation of emoji domain names.