New extension
.ngo domain name
What you need to know about .ngo: who can register it, which details are required and how transferring works.
Specifications
The key details of .ngo
- Registry
- pir.org
- Registration period
- 1 to 10 years
- Renewal period
- 1 to 9 years
- Domain name length
- 3 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: yesYour details can be hidden in the public Whois.
- Trustee: no
Requirements
Who can register a .ngo?
- .ngo is intended for non-governmental organisations. Your organisation must meet Public Interest Registry's eligibility requirements and declare this itself when registering.
- Your organisation works in the public interest, for example in education, health, the environment or human rights, and must not promote discrimination or intolerance.
- Your organisation is not-for-profit. Commercial activities are allowed if they support the mission, but profits are not distributed or retained.
- Your organisation sets its own policies and activities and is not under the direct control of a government or political party. Government funding for programmes is allowed.
- Political parties and government bodies are not eligible. Participation in the organisation's work is voluntary.
- Your organisation works actively and regularly on its mission.
- Your organisation has a structured set-up, for example with articles of association, a code of conduct or another form of governance.
- Your organisation acts with integrity and within the law.
- You are responsible for checking whether the domain name infringes the rights of others and whether the registration complies with the .ngo registration policy.
Documents
- If your domain name is selected for a check, you must provide documents showing that your organisation meets the requirements for .ngo.
Good to know when registering
- When you register, you declare that you agree to the .ngo registration policy and that your organisation meets the eligibility requirements.
- Your domain name is active as soon as the registration is complete. Prior validation and revalidation every two years are no longer required.
- Public Interest Registry carries out random checks and can cancel, transfer or modify a domain name if it does not comply with the policy.
- A 60-day transfer lock applies after registration.
- Since 1 June 2022, you register .ngo and .ONG separately. Registrants of an existing combination were given a separate .ONG domain name at the time.
Transfer
Transferring a .ngo
- You request the transfer code from your current registrar and pass it on to your new registrar, which requests the transfer from the registry.
- Check the WHOIS beforehand to make sure there is no transfer lock on the domain name. If your current registrar has set one, ask for it to be removed.
- Your current registrar sends the registrant an email about the transfer, often with the option to approve or reject it.
- If you neither approve nor reject the transfer, it is completed automatically after 5 days.
- You cannot transfer the domain name in the first 60 days after registration.
The transfer code
- You need a transfer code to transfer a domain. The registrant or the administrative contact requests it from the current registrar.
- The code is 8 to 32 characters long and contains at least one letter, one number and one special character.
Owner
Change of registrant
- When transferring to a different registrant, ICANN's rules for registrant changes apply. Both the old and the new registrant must approve the change.
- After that approval, the new registrant receives a verification link. You complete the change via that link by validating your details.
More information
Registry rules and links
- Registry website pir.org
- Registry whois whois.nic.ngo
- Dispute resolution policy icann.org
- Registry terms and conditions pir.org
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