New extension
.bio domain name
What you need to know about .bio: who can register it, which details are required and how transferring works.
Specifications
The key details of .bio
- Registry
- identity.digital
- Registration period
- 1 to 10 years
- Renewal period
- 1 to 9 years
- Domain name length
- 1 to 63 characters
- Time to registration
- immediately
- Transfer time
- 5 days
- Renewal on transfer
- yes, transferring renews the domain
- Transfer lock available
- yes
- Number of nameservers
- 1 to 13
- Renewable after expiry date
- 35 days
- Quarantine after deletion
- 30 days
Features
- DNSSEC: yesYou can secure your domain name with DNSSEC.
- IPv6: yesThe nameservers for this extension can also be reached over IPv6.
- Special characters: yesDomain names with letters such as é, ü or ø (and sometimes other scripts) are possible.
- Whois privacy: yesYour details can be hidden in the public Whois.
- Trustee: no
Requirements
Who can register a .bio?
- Anyone can register a .bio domain name.
- If your website is about the organic sector, the content must be in line with the Principles of Organic Agriculture of IFOAM Organics International.
- This applies, for example, to certified organic producers, farmers and distributors, providers of organic textiles or skincare, organic restaurants and venues, and certification bodies in the organic sector.
- It also applies to publications, journalists and bloggers focusing on the organic sector, and to non-profit and trade organisations that mainly represent the organic sector.
- Read the .bio domain name policy before you register.
Good to know when registering
- After a successful registration, the registry places a 60-day transfer lock on the domain name. During this period, you can't transfer the domain name to another registrar.
Transfer
Transferring a .bio
- You start the transfer with the transfer code from the current registrar. The new registrar submits the request to the registry, which automatically lets the current registrar know that a transfer is in progress.
- The current registrar sends an email to the registrant, and sometimes also to the administrative contact. In it, you can often approve or reject the transfer.
- If you neither approve nor reject the transfer, it will be completed automatically after 5 days.
- Check the WHOIS beforehand to make sure there's no transfer lock on the domain name.
- If the current registrar has set a transfer lock, you can ask for it to be removed as the registrant.
The transfer code
- To transfer a domain, you need a transfer code. As the registrant or administrative contact, you request it from the current registrar.
- The code is at least 6 and at most 16 characters long.
- The code contains at least one letter, one number and one special character, such as ! $ % ? & @ * ^ + - , . / : ~ or brackets.
Owner
Change of registrant
- A transfer to a new owner follows ICANN's transfer policy.
More information
Registry rules and links
- Registry website identity.digital
- Registry whois whois.donuts.co
- Dispute resolution policy identity.digital
- Registry terms and conditions identity.digital
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