New extension
.auto domain name
What you need to know about .auto: who can register it, which details are required and how transferring works.
Specifications
The key details of .auto
- Registry
- uniregistry.com
- 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 10
- 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: yesIf you don't meet the local address requirement, you can use a trustee service.
Requirements
Who can register a .auto?
- There are no restrictions for .auto. Anyone can register a domain name.
Additional details for registration
- You provide three security questions with their answers. These can be used to identify the registrant in an emergency. This is mandatory.
Transfer
Transferring a .auto
- You start the transfer at the new registrar with the transfer code. The transfer then goes to the registry, which automatically lets the current registrar know that the domain name is leaving.
- The current registrar sends an email about the transfer to the registrant and sometimes also to the administrative contact. In that email, you can sometimes approve or reject the transfer.
- If you neither approve nor reject the transfer, it's completed automatically after 5 days.
- Check beforehand that there's no transfer lock on the domain name. You can see this in the WHOIS.
- If the current registrar has set a transfer lock, the registrant can ask for it to be removed.
The transfer code
- You need a transfer code to transfer a domain. You get it from the current registrar, through the registrant or the administrative contact of the domain name.
- The code is at least 8 and at most 32 characters long.
- The code contains at least one letter, at least one digit and at least one special character, such as ! $ % ? & @ * + - . / or :.
Owner
Change of registrant
- ICANN's transfer policy applies to a change of registrant.
More information
Registry rules and links
- Registry website uniregistry.com
- Registry whois nic.auto
- Dispute resolution policy uniregistry.link
- Registry terms and conditions uniregistry.link
Related extensions
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