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.koeln domain name
Register or transfer your .koeln with WebOké. Below you can see what it costs, who can register a .koeln and what to look out for when transferring.
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Specifications
The key details of .koeln
- Registry
- dotkoeln.de
- Registration period
- 1 to 10 years
- Renewal period
- 1 to 10 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: no
- Trustee: yesIf you don't meet the local address requirement, you can use a trustee service.
Requirements
Who can register a .koeln?
- There are no restrictions for .koeln: anyone can register a domain name.
Good to know when registering
- After a successful registration, the registry locks the domain name for 60 days. During that period, you can't transfer it to another registrar.
Transfer
Transferring a .koeln
- Request the transfer code from your current registrar. You use it to start the transfer.
- Check that there's no transfer lock on the domain name. You can see this in the WHOIS.
- If there's a lock set by your registrar, ask your current registrar to remove it.
- The transfer request goes to the registry, which automatically lets your current registrar know that the domain name is being transferred.
- Your current registrar sends the registrant an email about the transfer, and sometimes the administrative contact too. You may be able to approve or reject the transfer in that email.
- If you neither approve nor reject the transfer, it will be completed automatically after 5 days.
- You can't transfer the domain name within 60 days of registration.
The transfer code
- You need a transfer code to transfer a .koeln domain name.
- You get the code through the registrant or the administrative contact of the domain name at your current registrar.
- The code is at least 8 and at most 32 characters long.
- The code must contain at least one letter, one number and one special character, such as ! $ % ? & @ * + - or ~.
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Owner
Change of registrant
- ICANN's transfer policy applies to every change of registrant for a .koeln domain name.
More information
Registry rules and links
- Registry website dotkoeln.de
- Dispute resolution policy icann.org
- Registry terms and conditions nic.koeln
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