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.dev domain name
Register or transfer your .dev with WebOké. Below you can see what it costs, who can register a .dev and what to look out for when transferring.
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Specifications
The key details of .dev
- Registration period
- 1 to 10 years
- Renewal period
- 1 to 10 years
- Domain name length
- 2 to 63 characters
- Renewal on transfer
- yes, transferring renews the domain
- Transfer code length
- 8 to 32 characters
- Transfer lock available
- yes
- Number of nameservers
- 1 to 13
- 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 .dev?
- HTTPS is mandatory for .dev. Websites on a .dev domain only work in browsers if you've set up an SSL certificate.
Good to know when registering
- Before you register, you agree that .dev requires HTTPS. Without an SSL certificate set up, your website won't work properly in browsers.
- You don't need to buy the domain and the SSL certificate in any particular order. The HTTPS requirement is only enforced in the browser.
- .dev is on the HSTS preload list, so browsers force an encrypted connection. You can get a certificate from Let's Encrypt, for example.
- Without an SSL certificate, you can still use a .dev domain for email, for other uses outside the browser or to protect your name.
Transfer
Transferring a .dev
- Request the transfer code from your current registrar and check that the domain doesn't have a transfer lock.
- Your new registrar submits the transfer to the registry, which automatically notifies your current registrar.
- Your current registrar sends the registrant, and sometimes the administrative contact too, an email about the transfer. You can often approve or reject the transfer in that email.
- If you neither approve nor reject the transfer, it's completed automatically after 5 days.
- You can see in the WHOIS whether there's a transfer lock on the domain. If your current registrar has set that lock, you can ask, as the registrant, for it to be removed.
The transfer code
- You need a transfer code to transfer a .dev domain.
- You get the transfer code from your current registrar. The registrant or the administrative contact of the domain can request it.
Want to transfer your .dev to WebOké? Start the transfer and enter your transfer code.
Transfer a domain to WebOké
Owner
Change of registrant
- When you transfer a .dev domain to a different owner, ICANN's transfer policy applies.
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