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.moscow domain name
What you need to know about .moscow: who can register it, which details are required and how transferring works.
Specifications
The key details of .moscow
- Registry
- nic.moscow
- Registration period
- 1 year
- Renewal period
- 1 year
- 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
- 2 to 7
- Renewable after expiry date
- 35 days
- Quarantine after deletion
- 30 days
Features
- DNSSEC: yesYou can secure your domain name with DNSSEC.
- IPv6: no
- Special characters: yesDomain names with letters such as é, ü or ø (and sometimes other scripts) are possible.
- Whois privacy: no
- Trustee: no
Requirements
Who can register a .moscow?
- A domain name under .moscow may only contain regular letters, digits and characters from the standard Latin character set.
Additional details for registration
- You provide your tax identification number.
- If you're registering as an individual, you must also provide your date of birth.
- As an individual, you also provide the name of your identity document in English and the document number.
Good to know when registering
- Premium domain names under .moscow can't be registered at the moment.
- After registration, you can't transfer the domain name to another registrar for 60 days.
Transfer
Transferring a .moscow
- First check that your domain name doesn't have a transfer lock or any other lock. You can see this in the WHOIS. If there's a lock, you can ask as the owner for it to be removed.
- After your transfer request, the owner or the administrative contact listed in the WHOIS receives a confirmation email. The transfer only starts once you confirm it.
- The transfer can only begin once the current owner has confirmed the ICANN transfer authorisation form.
- Your current registrar then receives the request. They also send an email you can use to reject the transfer. If you don't respond, the transfer is complete after 5 days.
- If the email address in the WHOIS is incorrect, the transfer can't go ahead. In that case, ask your current registrar to update the details first.
- After a successful transfer, you can't transfer the domain name again for 60 days.
The transfer code
- To transfer a domain, you need a transfer code. The owner or administrative contact requests it from the current registrar.
- The code is 8 to 32 characters long and contains at least one letter, one digit and one special character.
Owner
Change of registrant
- ICANN's transfer rules apply when moving the domain name to a different owner.
More information
Registry rules and links
- Registry website nic.moscow
- Dispute resolution policy icann.org
- Registry terms and conditions faitid.org
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