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.dad domain name
What you need to know about .dad: who can register it, which details are required and how transferring works.
Specifications
The key details of .dad
- Registration period
- 1 to 10 years
- Renewal period
- 1 to 10 years
- Domain name length
- 2 to 63 characters
- Renewal on transfer
- yes, transferring renews the domain
- Transfer code length
- 8 to 32 characters
- 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 .dad?
- HTTPS is mandatory for .dad. A website on a .dad domain will only work properly in browsers if you've set up HTTPS with an SSL certificate.
Good to know when registering
- Before registering, you must agree to the HTTPS requirement for .dad.
- You don't need to buy the SSL certificate before or at the same time as the domain. The HTTPS requirement is enforced by browsers, not by the registry.
- .dad is on the HSTS preload list. This means browsers will only open your site over an encrypted connection. You can get an SSL certificate from Let's Encrypt, for example.
- Without an SSL certificate, you can still use the domain for email and other uses outside the browser, or just to secure the name.
Transfer
Transferring a .dad
- To transfer the domain, you'll need its transfer code.
- The domain mustn't have a transfer lock. You can check the WHOIS to see whether a lock is in place.
- Has your current registrar set a transfer lock? Then ask that registrar to remove it.
- Once you've submitted the request, the registry notifies your current registrar.
- Your current registrar sends an email to the registrant and, where applicable, to the administrative contact. Sometimes you can approve or reject the transfer in that email.
- If you neither approve nor reject the transfer, it will be completed automatically after 5 days.
The transfer code
- You can only transfer a .dad domain with a transfer code.
- The registrant or the administrative contact requests the transfer code from the current registrar.
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