New extension
.nyc domain name
What you need to know about .nyc: who can register it, which details are required and how transferring works.
Specifications
The key details of .nyc
- Registry
- nic.nyc
- Registration period
- 1 to 10 years
- Renewal period
- 1 to 10 years
- 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
- 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: no
Requirements
Who can register a .nyc?
- You can only register a .nyc domain name if you have a genuine and lawful connection with the city of New York.
- As an individual, your primary residence must be a valid physical address in the city of New York.
- As a business or organisation, you must have a physical office address in the city of New York.
- A PO box in New York does not count as a valid address.
- You must also comply with the other conditions of the .nyc policy regarding the connection with the city.
- Registering through an intermediary, privately or anonymously is not allowed. Your own details must be listed with the domain name.
Good to know when registering
- After registration, the registry places a 60-day transfer lock on your domain name. During that period, you cannot transfer it to another registrar.
Transfer
Transferring a .nyc
- You cannot transfer a .nyc domain name in the first 60 days after registration.
- Check the WHOIS beforehand to make sure there is no transfer lock on the domain name.
- If the lock has been set at your current registrar, ask your current registrar to remove it.
- Request the transfer code from your current registrar and use it to start the transfer at your new registrar.
- The registry notifies your current registrar of the transfer. They send an email to the registrant and sometimes also to the administrative contact, possibly with the option to approve or reject it.
- 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 requests the code from the current registrar.
- The code consists of 8 to 32 characters, including at least one letter, one number and one special character.
Owner
Change of registrant
- When the registrant changes, ICANN's rules on transferring and reassigning generic domain names apply.
More information
Registry rules and links
- Registry website nic.nyc
- Dispute resolution policy icann.org
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