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.africa domain name
Register or transfer your .africa with WebOké. Below you can see what it costs, who can register a .africa and what to look out for when transferring.
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Specifications
The key details of .africa
- Registry
- nic.africa
- Registration period
- 1 to 10 years
- Renewal period
- 1 to 10 years
- Domain name length
- 4 to 30 characters
- Transfer time
- 5 days
- Renewal on transfer
- yes, transferring renews the domain
- Transfer code length
- 8 to 32 characters
- Transfer lock available
- yes
- Number of nameservers
- 2 to 5
- Quarantine after deletion
- 20 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: no
- Whois privacy: no
- Trustee: no
Requirements
Who can register a .africa?
- There are no restrictions for .africa: anyone can register a domain name.
Documents
- To transfer a domain, a signed request from the registrant of the domain name is required.
Good to know when registering
- You can only transfer a newly registered .africa domain name once it's more than 60 days old.
Transfer
Transferring a .africa
- You need a valid transfer code. Without the correct code, the transfer will fail.
- After the request, the registrant or administrative contact listed in the WHOIS receives a confirmation email. The transfer only starts once that email has been confirmed.
- The request then goes via the registry to the current registrar. They send the registrant or administrative contact an email that can be used to reject the transfer.
- If you don't respond to the current registrar's email, the transfer is completed automatically after 5 days. Allow 5 days in total.
- If the email address in the WHOIS is incorrect, the transfer won't succeed. In that case, ask your current registrar to update the details.
- The domain name must not have any block on it, such as a registrar lock or a hold. You can see this in the WHOIS, and as the registrant you can demand that the block be lifted.
- A domain name that is less than 60 days old can't be transferred.
- Start the transfer in good time, not just before the domain name expires.
The transfer code
- A transfer code is required.
- You get the code from your current registrar. The registrant or administrative contact requests it there.
- Check beforehand that the code is correct, otherwise the transfer will fail.
Want to transfer your .africa to WebOké? Start the transfer and enter your transfer code.
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Owner
Change of registrant
- Transferring to another owner is possible.
- ICANN's transfer policy applies to a change of registrant.
More information
Registry rules and links
- Registry website nic.africa
- Registry whois whois.nic.africa
- Registry terms and conditions nic.africa
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