New extension
.voting domain name
What you need to know about .voting: who can register it, which details are required and how transferring works.
Specifications
The key details of .voting
- Registry
- nic.voting
- 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: yesYour details can be hidden in the public Whois.
- Trustee: no
Requirements
Who can register a .voting?
- On a .voting domain, you may only publish content centred on polls, surveys, reviews, petitions or discussions. This can be public or limited to a closed group of users.
- Other content isn't permitted and counts as a breach of the terms. You can find the full eligibility policy on the registry's website.
Good to know when registering
- After registration, your domain name is subject to a 60-day transfer lock from the registry.
- Reserved names are sold by the registry itself. You can only register such a name with a code you've received directly from the registry.
Transfer
Transferring a .voting
- You can only transfer a .voting domain once the 60-day transfer lock after registration has ended.
- Make sure there's no transfer lock on the domain name. You can see this in the WHOIS. If the lock has been set by your current registrar, ask them to remove it.
- You need the transfer code to start the transfer.
- After the request, the registry notifies your current registrar that the domain name is being transferred. They send an email to the registrant, and sometimes to the administrative contact too.
- In that email, you can often approve or reject the transfer. If you do nothing, the transfer is automatically completed after 5 days.
The transfer code
- You always need a transfer code for a transfer. The registrant or administrative contact requests it from the current registrar.
- The code is 8 to 32 characters long. It must contain at least one letter, one number and one special character, such as ! $ % ? & @ or *.
Owner
Change of registrant
- A change of registrant falls under ICANN's transfer policy for generic extensions.
More information
Registry rules and links
- Registry website nic.voting
- Dispute resolution policy icann.org
- Registry terms and conditions nic.voting
Related extensions
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