Generic extension
.name domain name
Register or transfer your .name with WebOké. Below you can see what it costs, who can register a .name and what to look out for when transferring.
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Specifications
The key details of .name
- Registry
- verisigninc.com
- Registration period
- 1 to 10 years
- Renewal period
- 1 to 10 years
- Domain name length
- 1 to 63 characters
- Transfer time
- 7 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 .name?
- There are no registration restrictions for .name. Anyone can register a .name domain name.
Additional details for registration
- When you register, you can enter an email address that email for your .name domain name will be forwarded to. If you don't want forwarding, just leave this blank.
Transfer
Transferring a .name
- You start the transfer with the transfer code. The request goes to the registry, which automatically notifies your current registrar.
- Your current registrar sends an email to the registrant and sometimes also to the administrative contact. In it, you may be able to 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 see whether your domain name has a transfer lock. If it does, the transfer can't go ahead.
- If your current registrar has set a transfer lock, you can ask them to remove it as the registrant.
The transfer code
- To transfer a .name domain name, you need a transfer code. The registrant or the administrative contact can request it from the current registrar.
- The transfer code is 8 to 32 characters long.
- The code contains at least one letter, one number and one special character, such as ! $ % ? & @ + - or :.
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Owner
Change of registrant
- Transferring a .name domain name to a different owner is subject to ICANN's transfer policy.
More information
Registry rules and links
- Registry website verisigninc.com
- Dispute resolution policy icann.org
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