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.scot domain name
Register or transfer your .scot with WebOké. Below you can see what it costs, who can register a .scot and what to look out for when transferring.
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Specifications
The key details of .scot
- Registry
- nic.scot
- 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
- 2 to 12
- 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 .scot?
- A .scot domain name is intended for the Scottish community online, wherever in the world it may be.
- You belong to that community if your online activities contribute to Scottish social, cultural, business or academic life.
- You also belong to it if you use the spoken or visual languages of Scotland, explore Scottish heritage or have chosen Scotland as your home.
Additional details for registration
- When you register, you state what you want to use the domain name for, in no more than 256 characters.
- If the domain name isn't the name of your organisation, explain why you're entitled to that name.
- If the domain name matches a trademark, you provide the trademark number.
Good to know when registering
- After a successful registration, the registry places a 60-day transfer lock on the domain name. During that period, you can't transfer it to another registrar.
Transfer
Transferring a .scot
- Check the WHOIS beforehand to make sure the domain name isn't locked. If it is, the registrant can ask the current registrar to remove the lock.
- After the transfer request, the registrant or the administrative contact listed in the WHOIS receives a confirmation email. The transfer only starts once you confirm that email.
- This confirmation counts as the mandatory ICANN consent of the current registrant. Without that consent, the transfer can't be started.
- The transfer then goes through the registry. The current registrar sends the registrant or the administrative contact an email that lets you reject the transfer.
- If you don't respond to the current registrar's email, the transfer is completed after 5 days.
- If the email address in the WHOIS is incorrect, the transfer can't go ahead. In that case, ask your current registrar to update the WHOIS details.
- After a successful transfer, the registry places a 60-day transfer lock on the domain name.
The transfer code
- You need a transfer code to transfer a domain. The registrant or the administrative contact requests it from the current registrar.
- The code is 8 to 32 characters long and contains at least one letter, one number and one special character.
Want to transfer your .scot to WebOké? Start the transfer and enter your transfer code.
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Change of registrant
- ICANN's transfer rules apply when changing to a different registrant.
More information
Registry rules and links
- Registry website nic.scot
- Registry whois whois.nic.scot
- Dispute resolution policy icann.org
- Registry terms and conditions nic.scot
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