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.boats domain name
What you need to know about .boats: who can register it, which details are required and how transferring works.
Specifications
The key details of .boats
- Registry
- domains.boats
- Registration period
- 1 to 10 years
- Renewal period
- 1 to 10 years
- Domain name length
- 1 to 63 characters
- Time to registration
- up to 5 working days
- 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: no
Requirements
Who can register a .boats?
Good to know when registering
- After a successful registration, the registry places a 60-day transfer lock on your domain name. During that period you can't transfer it to another registrar.
Transfer
Transferring a .boats
- You start the transfer with the transfer code you request from your current registrar.
- Check beforehand that there's no transfer lock on your domain name. You can see this in the WHOIS details.
- Is there a lock set by your current registrar? As the registrant, ask your current registrar to remove it.
- Once you've submitted the request, the registry automatically notifies your current registrar of the transfer.
- Your current registrar sends the registrant, and sometimes the administrative contact as well, an email about the transfer. You can often approve or reject the transfer in that email.
- If you neither approve nor reject the transfer, it's completed automatically after 5 days.
The transfer code
- You need a transfer code to transfer your domain name.
- You get the code from your current registrar. The registrant or the administrative contact of the domain name can request it.
- The code is at least 8 and at most 32 characters long.
- The code contains at least one letter, at least one number and at least one special character, for example ! $ % ? & @ * + - . / or :.
Owner
Change of registrant
- Moving your domain name to a new owner follows ICANN's transfer policy.
More information
Registry rules and links
- Registry website domains.boats
- Registry whois whois.nic.boats
- Dispute resolution policy icann.org
- Registry terms and conditions domains.boats
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