Network Information Center Mexico, S.C. (NIC-MEXICO), an entity related to the Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, and in charge of managing domain names with country code domain (ccTLD) mx, informed that domain names directly under Top Level Domain (TLD) mx will be available again.

Between 1989 and 1996, the registration of domain names using TLDs with mx only, such as anahuac.mx, were restricted to universities and certain very specific entities. In 1996, NIC MEXICO made the edu.mx TLD available, and closed the registration for new domains under the TLD mx directly, thus the only available TLDs with cc mx were com.mx, gob.mx, net.mx, org.mx and edu.mx.

On January 28, 2009, NIC-Mexico informed that it will allow the registration of domains under the TLD mx directly, starting this year.

The mechanism and rules to register domain names under TLD mx directly are not clear yet, although it seems that there will be different stages, and will start on May 2009. NIC-Mexico stated that it will give priority to the persons that already own a domain name with ccTLD mx, such as com.mx, gob.mx, org.mx, edu.mx and net.mx.

The communication from NIC-Mexico did not clarify if the owners of Mexican trademark registrations without a domain name with ccTLD mx would also have priority to register under the TLD mx directly.

Update: NIC-Mexico set the rules for the TLD’s under mx directly.