New extension
.now domain name
What you need to know about .now: who can register it, which details are required and how transferring works.
Specifications
The key details of .now
- Registry
- nic.now
- Registration period
- 1 to 10 years
- Renewal period
- 1 to 10 years
- Domain name length
- 2 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: no
Requirements
Who can register a .now?
- There are no registration requirements for .now: anyone can register a domain name.
Good to know when registering
- After a successful registration, the registry places a 60-day transfer lock on the domain name. During this period you can't transfer it to another registrar.
Transfer
Transferring a .now
- Request the transfer code from your current registrar and pass it on to the new registrar, which requests the transfer from the registry.
- The registry notifies your current registrar of the transfer. Your current registrar then emails the registrant, and sometimes the administrative contact as well, about the transfer, often with the option to approve or refuse it.
- If you neither approve nor refuse 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 your current registrar has set a transfer lock, ask that registrar to remove it.
The transfer code
- You always need a transfer code to transfer a domain. As the registrant or administrative contact, you request it from your current registrar.
- The code must be 8 to 32 characters long and contain at least two letters, two digits (1 to 9) and two special characters. Permitted special characters are ! @ % $ . : ; ,
Owner
Change of registrant
- ICANN's transfer policy applies to a change of registrant.
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