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.nrw domain name
Register or transfer your .nrw with WebOké. Below you can see what it costs, who can register a .nrw and what to look out for when transferring.
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Specifications
The key details of .nrw
- Registry
- nic.nrw
- Registration period
- 1 to 10 years
- Renewal period
- 1 to 10 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: no
- Trustee: yesIf you don't meet the local address requirement, you can use a trustee service.
Requirements
Who can register a .nrw?
- As an individual, you can register a .nrw domain name if you live in the postcode area of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
- If you're self-employed or a freelancer, you can register if your business premises are in the postcode area of North Rhine-Westphalia.
- Organisations and businesses can register if they have a branch in the postcode area of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Good to know when registering
- After a successful registration, the registry places a 60-day transfer lock on the domain name. During this period, you can't transfer it to another registrar.
- To register a premium name, you need a code issued by the registry specifically for that name.
Transfer
Transferring a .nrw
- You start the transfer with the transfer code. The request goes to the registry, which automatically notifies the current registrar.
- The current registrar sends an email to the registrant, and sometimes also to the administrative contact, possibly with the option to approve or reject the transfer.
- If you don't explicitly approve or reject the transfer, it will be completed automatically after 5 days.
- Check beforehand that there's no transfer lock on the domain name. You can see this in the WHOIS details.
- If your current registrar has set a transfer lock, you as the registrant can ask for it to be removed.
- You can't transfer a domain name that was registered less than 60 days ago.
The transfer code
- You always need a transfer code to transfer a domain.
- You request the code from your current registrar via the registrant or the administrative contact of the domain name.
- The code is 8 to 32 characters long and contains at least one letter, one number and one special character.
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Owner
Change of registrant
- When transferring a .nrw domain name to a different owner, ICANN's transfer rules apply.
More information
Registry rules and links
- Registry website nic.nrw
- Registry whois whois.nic.nrw
- Dispute resolution policy nic.nrw
- Registry terms and conditions nic.nrw
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