Local presence service terms

• The service
• Who the domain belongs to
• What the client must provide
• Data we keep and when we disclose them
• Price and renewal
• Moving the domain to your name, or to another registrar
• End of the service
• Registry rules prevail
• Liability and changes

Some registries require the holder of a domain name to have an address, a company or a contact in the country of the extension. Our local presence service provides it. Depending on the registry rules, Domgate acts as the local administrative contact, as the local address of the holder, or as the registrant of record, through its own entities or through trusted local agents.

Some extensions remain reserved to local companies whatever the arrangement; the extension page says so.

A written agreement records that the domain name is registered for you or your client, who keeps the use of it and the right to have it transferred.

This written agreement is a trustee agreement between Domgate, or the local entity or agent acting for it (the trustee), and the client (the trustor). It names the client and the brand concerned and is signed by both parties. Its main terms:

• the trustee registers the domain names in its own name on behalf of the client, in the countries that require a local presence;
• the trustee strictly follows the client's instructions for every domain name registered under the agreement, and never transfers, abandons or sells a domain name, or takes any other action on it, without the client's prior written consent;
• the trustee consents to the client carrying out, before the registries, any formality needed to modify, transfer or abandon the domain names concerned;
• the client guarantees that it holds prior intellectual property rights over trademarks in at least one country and that, to the best of its knowledge, the domain names will not be used in any offensive way; in case of doubt, it asks for the trustee's prior consent;
• the client holds the trustee harmless against any claim arising from the registration of the domain names on its behalf.

• True, accurate and complete information, kept up to date, and answers to our questions about it, within the deadlines of our Registration Agreement ("Information Accuracy" and "General Requirements").
• The documents the registry asks from the holder, such as a trademark certificate or a company registration when its rules require them. A local presence does not replace them; we tell you which ones before the order.
• Lawful use of the domain name, within the "Right of Refusal, Service Cancellation, Acceptable Use Policy" section of the Registration Agreement.

Where the Registration Agreement gives different deadlines for the same duty, the shorter one applies: report a change, and answer a verification question, within five business days.

Domgate keeps the name and contact details of the actual holder of each domain name for which it provides a local presence, including when a reseller orders it for a client.

We disclose the actual holder only when the law, a court order or a competent authority requires it, or to a person whose request is lawful and duly substantiated, once the holder's rights have been weighed. Other requests are handled as described on our registrant data requests page. For country code domains, the basis is the registry's rules and the General Data Protection Regulation: either a legal obligation (Art. 6(1)(c)) or legitimate interests, after weighing the holder's rights (Art. 6(1)(f)).

The local presence is ordered with the domain name. It is charged per domain and per year, and it covers the registration and each renewal. When an extension needs one and its local presence fee is published, the fee appears on the extension page next to the registration price; for the other extensions, ask us.

Putting the domain name in your own name, or in your client's, is a change of registrant under the "Ownership Transfers" section of our Registration Agreement. The registry's rules for a change of holder apply, with the documents they require; an extension that requires a local presence may refuse a holder who does not meet its condition.

The price is the change-of-holder fee of the extension concerned, and the delay is the one of its registry. Once the domain name is in your name or your client's, the local presence ends for that domain name.

Domgate renews no service without payment in advance. If the client does not pay the renewal in advance, or ends the service, the domain name is not renewed and expires on its expiry date, under the rules of its registry.

The policy of the registry decides who may hold a domain name, which documents are needed and what the public record shows. The local presence service follows it: where these terms and the registry's policy differ, the registry's policy applies.

Where we have them, links to each registry's rules are on our registry policies page and on the extension pages.

Liability is governed by the "Limitation of Liability" section of our Registration Agreement, and changes by its "Modification" section. Our service terms page explains how service terms relate to the agreement.

Under the trustee agreement, the client holds the trustee harmless against any claim arising from the registration of the domain names on its behalf.

These terms supplement the Registration Agreement and the trustee agreement signed for each local presence.

Version 1 of 12 October 2026.

Earlier versions of these terms are kept and sent on request: write to [email protected].

Last updated: 12 October 2026.

Legal position checked on 4 October 2026.