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.prof domain name
What you need to know about .prof: who can register it, which details are required and how transferring works.
Specifications
The key details of .prof
- 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 .prof?
Good to know when registering
- Websites on .prof only work over a secure HTTPS connection. If you want to use the name for a website, you'll need an SSL certificate.
- You can register the domain name before you've set up HTTPS. Browsers enforce the security, so it doesn't matter in which order you sort out your domain and certificate.
- .prof is on the HSTS preload list. This means browsers only open .prof websites over an encrypted connection.
- Without an SSL certificate, you can still use the domain name for email and other applications outside the browser, or simply register it to secure the name.
Transfer
Transferring a .prof
- First check in the WHOIS whether there's a transfer lock on the domain name. If there is, it needs to be removed before you can transfer the domain.
- If your current registrar set the lock, you can ask that registrar to remove it.
- Once the transfer has been requested, the registry lets your current registrar know that the domain name is leaving.
- Your current registrar sends the registrant an email about the transfer, sometimes to the administrative contact as well. You may be able to approve or refuse the transfer in that email.
- If you neither approve nor refuse the transfer, it's completed automatically after 5 days.
The transfer code
- You need a transfer code to transfer a .prof domain name.
- The registrant or the administrative contact requests the transfer code from the current registrar.
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