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.gay domain name
Register or transfer your .gay with WebOké. Below you can see what it costs, who can register a .gay and what to look out for when transferring.
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Specifications
The key details of .gay
- Registry
- nic.gay
- Registration period
- 1 to 10 years
- Renewal period
- 1 to 10 years
- Domain name length
- 1 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 .gay?
- When you register, you agree not to use the .gay domain name to incite violence, bullying, harassment or hatred.
- Recognised hate groups may not use a .gay domain name.
- The registry has a clear policy against anti-LGBTQIA+ content and enforces it too.
Good to know when registering
- You must explicitly accept the .gay terms of use. Without this confirmation, the registration can't go ahead.
- The registry donates 20 percent of the proceeds from every new registration to LGBTQIA+ organisations, namely GLAAD and CenterLink.
- Separate registry rules apply to .gay to protect rights. These rules are part of the terms you accept.
More information
Registry rules and links
- Registry website nic.gay
- Dispute resolution policy toplevel.design
- Registry terms and conditions toplevel.design
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