New extension
.new domain name
What you need to know about .new: who can register it, which details are required and how transferring works.
Specifications
The key details of .new
- 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 .new?
- .new is a restricted extension: every domain name must be used to prompt visitors to take action or to create online content.
- Your domain name must be actively in use within 100 days of registration.
- If your domain name doesn't meet these usage rules, the registry can suspend or delete it.
- Websites on .new only work over a secure HTTPS connection, so you'll need an SSL certificate.
Good to know when registering
- You can register a .new domain name before you have an SSL certificate. However, you'll need to set up HTTPS first for your website to work in browsers.
- Browsers enforce HTTPS because .new is on a list that makes encrypted connections mandatory.
- Without an SSL certificate, you can still use your .new domain name for email and other non-browser applications, or simply to secure the name.
- For a premium name, you need a special code issued by the registry.
Transfer
Transferring a .new
- Check beforehand that there's no transfer lock on your domain name. You can see this in the WHOIS.
- If there's a lock set by your current registrar, ask that registrar to remove it.
- Your new registrar requests the transfer from the registry, which automatically notifies your current registrar.
- Your current registrar sends the registrant, and possibly the administrative contact, an email about the transfer. In it, you can often approve or reject the transfer.
- If you neither approve nor reject the transfer, it will be completed automatically after 5 days.
The transfer code
- You need a transfer code to transfer a domain.
- The registrant or the administrative contact can request the transfer code from the current registrar.
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