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.NAME Domain

12.98 USD / year 1)
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Do you want to bring your name to the network in an ingenious way? The generic top-level domain (gTLD) .name is the right choice. Its use is intended for the representation of personal names, nicknames, user names, pseudonyms or other types of personal identification marks.

Names in the .name extension can be registered at the 2nd level, such as; "ben.name" and at the 3rd level, how can it be; "ben.smith.name". Take advantage if you want to offer a service related to names or want users to identify your brand with the gTLD .name.

Domain characteristics

General Information for the domain extension .name

Meaning of Extension .name is one of the generic domain extensions (gTLD).
Minimum and maximum length 2 - 63 characters
Time of registration In real-time
Time of transfer 5 days
Registrar Transfer Yes, with Auth-Code
Trade No
Premium Domains No
IDN Yes
Whois Privacy Yes
DNSSEC Supported Yes (DS)
Renewal Period 1Y, 2Y, 3Y, 4Y, 5Y, 6Y, 7Y, 8Y, 9Y, 10Y
Registration Period 1Y, 2Y, 3Y, 4Y, 5Y, 6Y, 7Y, 8Y, 9Y, 10Y
Cancellation Period 1 Day(s)
Supported IDN Tables chinese, japanese, arabic, cyrillic, hebrew, korean, latin, greek, thai, armenian, georgian, javanese, myanmar, sundanese, loa, sinhala, khmer, tibetan, devanagari, bengali, telugu, tamil, gujarati, kannada, malayalam, gurmukhi
Renewal On Transfer Yes
Term transfer on Transfer Yes
No local contact needed
Registry Connection Directly
Transfer lock has to be removed before a transfer can be started
Manual renewal possible
Number of nameservers allowed 0 - 13
The domain terms for .name domains can be found at:
https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/policy-2012-02-25-en

Restrictions

.NAME domains can be registered as second (e.g. smith.name) or third level domains (e.g. joe.smith.name).

Please check the the domain with (for 3rd level) our without (for 2nd level) the dot in the availability check.

If you register a 3rd level domain, you can also register an email forwarding like joe@smith.name. You can enter the desired email address directly into the availability check.
1Email forwarding for 3rd level domains (e.g. joe@smith.name): 21.6294 / 1 year