Country extension
.cat domain name
Register or transfer your .cat with WebOké. Below you can see what it costs, who can register a .cat and what to look out for when transferring.
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Specifications
The key details of .cat
- Registry
- fundacio.cat
- Registration period
- 1 to 10 years
- Renewal period
- 1 to 10 years
- Domain name length
- 1 to 63 characters
- Transfer time
- 10 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: yesYour details can be hidden in the public Whois.
- Trustee: no
Requirements
Who can register a .cat?
- Your website must be related to Catalan culture, language or community.
- Within 6 months of registration, a website in Catalan must be online.
Additional details for registration
- When you register, you give a short description of how you intend to use the domain name, of no more than 256 characters.
- If the domain name isn't the same as the name of your organisation, you explain in that description why you're entitled to the name.
- If the domain name matches a trademark, you also provide the trademark number.
Good to know when registering
- After registration, the registry places a 60-day transfer lock on the domain name. During that period, you can't transfer the domain name to another registrar.
Transfer
Transferring a .cat
- To transfer a domain, you need a transfer code, which you request from your current registrar.
- Check the WHOIS beforehand to make sure the domain name isn't locked. If there's a lock, the registrant can ask the current registrar to remove it.
- After the request, the registrant or administrative contact listed in the WHOIS receives a confirmation email. The transfer only starts once you confirm that email; this is also the mandatory consent required under ICANN rules.
- The request then goes via the registry to your current registrar, which sends the registrant or administrative contact an email you can use to reject the transfer.
- If you don't respond to the email from your current registrar, 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 email address first.
- After a successful transfer, a 60-day transfer lock applies.
The transfer code
- You need a transfer code. The registrant or administrative contact requests it from the current registrar.
- The code is at least 8 and at most 32 characters long.
- The code contains at least one letter, one number and one special character, such as ! $ % ? & @ * + - or :.
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More information
Registry rules and links
- Registry website fundacio.cat
- Dispute resolution policy domini.cat
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