dotbazaar.net

What It Is

dotbazaar.net is an informational site built around the .بازار top-level domain. In .بازار, “بازار” is pronounced similarly to the English word “bazaar” and refers to a place for commercial activity and the exchange of goods and services. The site emphasizes that the word is widely understood across regions such as West Asia, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, and North Africa, covering user groups in Arabic, Kurdish, Pashto, Persian, Urdu, and more. Its goal is to provide a more natural internationalized domain platform for e-commerce and local content. The operator is listed as CORE, a Switzerland-based non-profit association of internet domain registrars.

Core Services and Features

Based on the site content, dotBazaar is not primarily a direct-to-consumer domain sales platform. Instead, it introduces the .بازار TLD and provides related supporting resources. The clearest add-on tool is the CORE Virtual Keyboard, which anyone interested in .بازار domains can use free of charge on an “as is” basis. The virtual keyboard supports 100 characters and covers multiple languages that use Arabic script or its variants, including Arabic, Azerbaijani, Jawi Malay, Kurdish Sorani, Persian, and Urdu. For users whose local keyboards lack certain characters, the virtual keyboard can help enter domain names, copy them, and paste them into a registrar control panel. It can also display the A-label length and possible variant domain names. DotBazaar-accredited registrars are also permitted and encouraged to integrate the keyboard into their webpages via iframe.

Pricing, Transfers, and Supporting Capabilities

The site does not disclose .بازار registration prices, renewal prices, premium domain rules, or transfer-in/transfer-out policies. It also does not describe common retail registrar services such as WHOIS privacy protection, DNS hosting, DNS record management, DNSSEC, email, or SSL. Payment methods are not mentioned either. As a result, users who want to actually register a domain will most likely need to do so through a DotBazaar-accredited registrar, with specific pricing and after-sales policies depending on that registrar.

Pros, Cons, and Best-Fit Users

The main advantage is its very clear positioning. It is well suited to e-commerce businesses, content platforms, and brands that want to reach users in the Middle East, Central Asia, South Asia, and North Africa using local scripts. The virtual keyboard also meaningfully lowers the barrier for IDN input and variant identification. The downside is that the site is clearly informational: it lacks direct purchasing, price transparency, DNS capabilities, and payment details, making it less of an all-in-one option for ordinary users. For users in China, the site content does not make it possible to assess access stability, ICP filing compatibility, or payment availability. It is advisable to search for and purchase domains through mainstream registrars that support IDNs, while also paying attention to compatibility with Arabic-script domain names in browsers, email systems, and applications.