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.esq domain name
What you need to know about .esq: who can register it, which details are required and how transferring works.
Specifications
The key details of .esq
- 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 .esq?
- Websites on a .esq domain name must be accessible via HTTPS. Without an SSL certificate, your website won't work in browsers.
Good to know when registering
- You can register a .esq domain name straight away. Before you register it, you agree to the requirement to use HTTPS.
- There's no fixed order: you can also sort out the SSL certificate later. Browsers enforce the HTTPS requirement because .esq is on a list that makes encrypted connections mandatory.
- Without an SSL certificate, you can still use the domain name for email and other uses outside the browser, or register it purely to protect your name.
Transfer
Transferring a .esq
- You start the transfer with the transfer code. The registry passes the transfer on to your current registrar.
- Your current registrar sends the registrant an email about the transfer. In it, you can sometimes approve or reject the transfer.
- If you neither approve nor reject the transfer, it's completed automatically after 5 days.
- Check the WHOIS beforehand to make sure there's no transfer lock on the domain name.
- If your current registrar has set a transfer lock, ask your current registrar to remove it.
The transfer code
- You need a transfer code to transfer a .esq domain name.
- You request the transfer code from your current registrar. This is done by the registrant or the administrative contact for the domain name.
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