New extension
.insurance domain name
What you need to know about .insurance: who can register it, which details are required and how transferring works.
Specifications
The key details of .insurance
- Registry
- register.insurance
- 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
- 0 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: no
- Trustee: no
Requirements
Who can register a .insurance?
- Only recognised banks and related organisations may register a .insurance domain name. The conditions are set out in fTLD's Registrant Eligibility Policy.
- Eligible are local, regional, provincial and national banks and savings institutions that are licensed by a government regulator and supervised by it.
- Associations whose members are mainly such banks or savings institutions may also register, as may groups of such associations.
- Service providers that are largely owned by such banks or mainly work for them may only register if the registry's board approves it.
- Government regulators of banks and savings institutions, and organisations whose members are mainly such regulators, may also register if the registry's board approves it.
- Holding companies aren't eligible as registrants, because they aren't banks and don't provide banking services. A holding company can, however, be listed as the administrative contact.
- Services such as mortgage brokerage, leasing or investments may only fall under .insurance if the bank provides those services itself. If this is done through a separate legal entity that isn't eligible, registration isn't allowed.
- The domain name must be related to your organisation.
- Mandatory security requirements apply to .insurance. For example, DMARC is required for email, and encryption must be used for websites, email traffic and file transfers.
- Read fTLD's Registrant Eligibility Policy and security requirements carefully before you apply. That way you avoid your application being rejected.
Additional details for registration
- You need a registration code that fTLD gives you once your application has been approved. Without this code, the domain name can't be registered.
Good to know when registering
- You first apply for the domain name yourself through the .insurance website. After review, fTLD sends you a registration code.
- WebOké then registers the domain name for you using that registration code.
- For premium names, you also need a code issued by the registry.
- Mandatory two-step verification is set up on registration and you can't turn it off. Every change to the domain requires a valid code, which is sent by email to the registrant's address.
Transfer
Transferring a .insurance
- Request the transfer code from your current registrar.
- Check the WHOIS to make sure there's no transfer lock on the domain. As the registrant, you can have a lock set by the current registrar removed.
- After the transfer request, the registry notifies your current registrar that the domain is being transferred.
- Your current registrar sends the registrant, and possibly the administrative contact, 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 a .insurance domain. As the registrant or administrative contact, you request it from your current registrar.
- The code is at least 8 and at most 32 characters long.
- The code must contain at least one letter, one number and one special character, such as ! $ % ? & @ * + - or ~.
Owner
Change of registrant
- A change of registrant is subject to the rules of ICANN's transfer policy.
- The new registrant must also meet the .insurance eligibility requirements.
- Because every change to the domain has to be confirmed with two-step verification, you need the code that's sent to the registrant's email address.
More information
Registry rules and links
- Registry website register.insurance
- Dispute resolution policy register.insurance
- Registry terms and conditions ftld.com
Related extensions
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