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.protection domain name
What you need to know about .protection: who can register it, which details are required and how transferring works.
Specifications
The key details of .protection
- Registry
- nic.protection
- 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
- 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 .protection?
- There are no registration requirements for .protection. Anyone can register a domain name.
Good to know when registering
- After a successful registration, the registry places a 60-day transfer lock on your domain name. During this period, you can't transfer it to another registrar.
Transfer
Transferring a .protection
- You start the transfer with your domain name's transfer code. The new registrar submits the transfer to the registry, which automatically notifies the current registrar that a transfer is in progress.
- The current registrar sends the owner, and sometimes the administrative contact too, an email about the transfer. In it, you can sometimes approve or reject the transfer.
- If you neither approve nor reject the transfer, it is completed automatically after 5 days.
- Check beforehand that there's no transfer lock on your domain name. You can see this in the WHOIS details.
- If the current registrar has set a transfer lock, the owner can ask that registrar to remove it.
The transfer code
- To transfer a .protection domain name, you need a transfer code. The owner or administrative contact requests it from the current registrar.
- The transfer code is at least 16 and at most 48 characters long.
- The code contains at least two letters (a-z or A-Z), two digits (1-9) and two special characters from this set: -.,:;[]{}_+=@#$^*?!~
Owner
Change of registrant
- ICANN's transfer rules apply to a change of owner.
More information
Registry rules and links
- Registry website nic.protection
- Registry whois whois.nic.protection
- Dispute resolution policy icann.org
- Registry terms and conditions nic.protection
Related extensions
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