.mq
Country-code top-level domain for Martinique
- Register
- $209.99first year
- Renew
- $253.99a year
- Transfer
- $209.99to move it
- Registrars
- 1quoting it
- Lookup
- neitherno public service
- DNSSEC
- Unsignedno DS in the root
- Level
- Secondmybrand.mq
Check a name
One command, straight against the registry — no account, no page to load.
ds mybrand --tld mqAdd --where for the registrars and the registry's rules, --registry for the server that answered, or --all-info for everything at once.
What it costs
Every published quote in the bundled table, cheapest registration first. The figure ds prints beside .mq is the mean of the registration column — $209.99, which undercuts 8% of the 881 priced TLDs.
| Registrar | Register | Renew | Transfer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 101domain.com | $209.99 | $253.99 | $209.99 |
Mean — what ds prints | $209.99 | $253.99 | $209.99 |
List prices in US dollars, bundled with the binary and last regenerated 2026-09-09. Promotions, ICANN fees, taxes and premium names all move the real number, and a registry may decline to sell you the name at all. See Prices.
Where to register
One registrar in the bundled table publishes a registration price for .mq, which is evidence it sells it — nobody prices what they cannot sell. Cheapest first, exactly as ds mybrand --tld mq --where prints them.
Put a name in the box above and each link becomes that registrar's search for mybrand.mq, where it publishes one. This list is what the price table knows, not the whole market — see Where to register.
Who can register
No eligibility rule is on file for .mq, which is not the same as a promise that it is open: the list is hand-maintained and covers the restricted TLDs a registrar is likely to offer you. Check the registry's own page before counting on a name. 81 TLDs do carry a rule — see Who can register.
How ds answers for it
Neither an RDAP endpoint nor a WHOIS server is on file for .mq: IANA's bootstrap does not list it and the bundled whois.json has no entry. It is left out of --tld all for that reason, and asking for it by name works only if IANA can name a server for it at the time. Anything ds cannot answer comes back UNKNOWN with the reason attached, never guessed as available.
The registry
From IANA's delegation record for .mq. .mq is a country-code TLD.
- Run by
- CANAL+ TELECOMBased in France. Delegated 1997-03-28, record last updated 2021-10-18.
- Registry site
- www.dom-enic.comWhere the registry documents .mq — its rules, its accredited registrars, and any launch phases. Not a shop: registries sell wholesale to registrars, not to you.
- Published services
whois.mediaserv.netWhat the registry itself tells IANA it runs. They agree with whatdsasks.- Name servers
ns1-fr.mediaserv.netns1-gp.mediaserv.netns1-mq.mediaserv.netThe 3 authoritative servers for the .mq zone — what the root delegates to. Nothingdsqueries directly; they are what makes a registered name resolve.
What it is
Derived from the root zone and ICANN's registry list — each one is a fact with a source.
country-codeIANA Root Zone Database types it "country-code"
In the root zone
The delegation itself, read out of the root zone — serial 2026090900, on 2026-09-09. The registry section above is IANA's record of what .mq was delegated to; this is what the root actually answers with when a resolver asks it where .mq lives.
- Delegated to
ns1-fr.mediaserv.net185.56.51.194ns1-gp.mediaserv.net213.188.172.1ns1-mq.mediaserv.net213.16.20.3
dsqueries: these servers know which names exist, not who registered them.- DNSSEC
- UnsignedThe root publishes no DS record for .mq, so the chain of signatures stops at the root and a resolver has no way to prove an answer under .mq is genuine — it takes it on trust, as all of the DNS did before DNSSEC. 88 of the 1,438 TLDs in the root are in the same position. Names here still work; they are just not verifiable.
Ask the root yourself — no registry involved, and the same records this section was built from: dig +norec @a.root-servers.net mq. NS and dig +norec @a.root-servers.net mq. DS.