New extension
.ong domain name
What you need to know about .ong: who can register it, which details are required and how transferring works.
Specifications
The key details of .ong
- Registry
- pir.org
- Registration period
- 1 to 10 years
- Renewal period
- 1 to 9 years
- Domain name length
- 3 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 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 .ong?
- Only organisations that meet the eligibility requirements of Public Interest Registry (PIR) may register a .ong domain name. When you register, you declare yourself that your organisation meets those requirements.
- Your organisation must work for the public good, for example in education, health, the environment or human rights. It must not promote discrimination or intolerance.
- Your organisation is not-for-profit. Commercial activities are allowed in support of its mission, but profits are not distributed or accumulated.
- Your organisation sets its own policies and activities and is not under the direct control of a government or political party. Government funding for programmes is allowed.
- Political parties and government bodies are not eligible. Participation in the organisation's work is voluntary.
- Your organisation must be active and pursue its mission on a regular basis.
- Your organisation works in a structured way, for example with articles of association, codes of conduct, organisational standards or another governance structure.
- Your organisation acts with integrity and within the law.
- You are responsible for making sure the domain name does not infringe anyone else's rights and complies with the .ong registration policy.
- PIR may cancel, transfer or modify a domain name if it does not comply with the registration policy.
Documents
- PIR carries out random checks. If your domain name is selected, you must provide documents showing that your organisation meets the requirements for .ong.
Good to know when registering
- When you register, you agree to the .ong registration policy and declare that your organisation meets the eligibility requirements. A prior check is no longer required.
- Your domain name works as soon as the registration is complete.
- The former mandatory re-check after two years has been abolished.
- After registration, you cannot transfer your domain name to another registrar for 60 days.
- Since 1 June 2022, .ong and .NGO are no longer registered together. You now register each of them separately.
- Did you have a combined .NGO and .ong registration at that time? Then the registry gave you a separate .ong domain name.
Transfer
Transferring a .ong
- First, request the transfer code from your current registrar. The registrant or the administrative contact of the domain name can do this.
- Make sure the domain name has no transfer lock. You can check this in WHOIS. If your current registrar has set a lock, ask for it to be removed.
- After the transfer request, the registry lets your current registrar know that the domain name is leaving.
- Your current registrar sends an email to the registrant, and sometimes also to the administrative contact. In it, you may be able to approve or reject the transfer.
- If you neither approve nor reject the transfer, it is completed automatically after 5 days.
- A transfer is not possible during the first 60 days after registration.
The transfer code
- You need a transfer code. You get it from your current registrar via the registrant or the administrative contact.
- The code is at least 8 and at most 32 characters long.
- The code must contain at least one letter, one digit and one special character, such as ! $ % ? & @ * + - or :.
Owner
Change of registrant
- When ownership is transferred to a new owner, the ICANN rules for registrant changes apply. Both the current and the new registrant must approve the change.
- After that approval, the new registrant must confirm their details via a verification link. The change of registrant is then complete. WebOké will send you that link.
More information
Registry rules and links
- Registry website pir.org
- Registry whois whois.nic.ong
- Dispute resolution policy icann.org
- Registry terms and conditions pir.org
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