How Schools and Universities Register a .edu.bd Domain

An educational institution's domain does a job that a business domain doesn't: it authenticates. When a parent receives an email about admissions, or a student downloads a result sheet, the address itself is evidence that the message came from the real institution rather than an impersonator.

That's why .edu.bd is restricted, and why the registration process asks for institutional credentials rather than a trade licence. Here's how it works.

Who is eligible

.edu.bd is reserved for recognised educational institutions in Bangladesh. In practice that means:

You'll also submit the NID of the head of institution or an authorised contact — the person acting on the institution's behalf.

.edu.bd vs .sch.bd

Both exist, and schools can often qualify for either:

For most schools, .edu.bd is the better choice: it's cheaper in year one and instantly legible to parents, who read "edu" as an educational institution without needing to think about it. .sch.bd makes sense mainly if your preferred name is already taken on .edu.bd.

Choosing the name

Institutional domains have a different naming logic from commercial ones. A few principles that hold up over decades:

• Use the institution's actual name, not a marketing phrase. Parents search for the school by name.
• Include a location where the name is generic. "Ideal School" exists in many districts; idealschoolctg.edu.bd disambiguates.
• Avoid the founding year unless it's genuinely part of the institution's identity.
• Keep it typable by a parent on a phone. Long acronym strings are harder to relay over the phone than a plain name.
• Don't encode the current principal or a specific programme — the domain will outlast both.

The registration process

1. Search the name. Use the domain search to check availability across .edu.bd and .sch.bd.
2. Gather documents. Scan the EIIN certificate (or UGC approval) and the authorised contact's NID.
3. Register and pay. Use an institutional email address for the account, not a personal one — staff change, institutions don't.
4. Upload within three days. Unverified domains are suspended after that window.
5. Verification. Typically 24–72 hours on business days.

What to do with it once you have it

The domain is worth more than the website sitting on it. Three things to set up early:

Staff email addresses

Move official correspondence off personal accounts. admissions@yourschool.edu.bd is verifiable in a way that yourschooladmission@gmail.com is not — and that matters when fee-related fraud is a live risk. See setting up professional email, and pay particular attention to the SPF, DKIM and DMARC section: those records are what stop someone impersonating your institution.

A notice and results channel

Even a simple page for notices, routines and results is more reliable than a Facebook post that disappears down the feed within hours.

Subdomains for departments

Rather than separate domains, use subdomains: library.yourschool.edu.bd, results.yourschool.edu.bd. One registration, one renewal, unlimited structure — the mechanics are in the DNS setup guide.

Long-term custody

Institutional domains fail in a predictable way: the ICT teacher who registered it leaves, the renewal reminder goes to an address nobody reads, and the domain lapses. Guard against it:

• Keep the account email on an address the institution owns and monitors.
• Record the expiry date in the office calendar, not just one person's inbox.
• Renew multi-year — .edu.bd allows up to 10 years.
• Keep a copy of the account credentials with the administration, not only with the IT staff member.

More on the failure mode and how to recover from it in how to renew a .bd domain and what happens when a .bd domain expires.

Ready to start? Check your institution's name or review the full document requirements.