Yes, there are and The domain name must be registered to a business or individual with a local presence in Kenya.

Yes it is available. It also involves extra cost for this (Contact our Support department for details on this)

This domain name is purely restricted to entities connected with Kenya. Individuals or companies.

The minimum period to register the .me.ke domain extension is 1 year.

During general availability i.e, when it is generally available for registration, the registration time frame is 2 days.

Once the domain expires, it will be in Renewal Grace Period (0-42 days) when the domain name can only be renewed but not transferred to another registrar, followed by a 30 day Redemption Period (also known as Pending Delete Restorable) when all services associated with the domain name (eg. DNS, website, emails) will automatically not be available but the domain can still be renewed. At the end of the Redemption Period, it enters into a 5-day Pending delete period and the domain name can no longer be renewed or recovered. After this period, the domain is available to the general public for registration.

"Domain Names must: -have minimum of 2 and a maximum of 63 characters; -begin with a letter or a number and end with a letter or a number; -not contain a dash in the third and fourth positions (e.g. www.ab- -cd.me.ke); and -not include a space (e.g. www.ab cd.me.ke). -use the English character set and may contain letters (i.e., a-z, A-Z),numbers (i.e. 0-9) and dashes (-) or a combination of these; -neither begin with, nor end with a dash

The registry is KeNIC

The maximum period it can be registered for is 1 year.