New extension
.lotto domain name
What you need to know about .lotto: who can register it, which details are required and how transferring works.
Specifications
The key details of .lotto
- Registry
- afilias.info
- Registration period
- 1 to 10 years
- Renewal period
- 1 to 9 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
- 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 .lotto?
- Only members of recognised lottery organisations worldwide can register a .lotto domain name.
- If you're eligible, you'll receive a personal verification code made up of letters and numbers. This code is needed to verify your right to the domain name.
Additional details for registration
- You provide the verification code that Afilias issues to approved applicants.
- Along with the usual contacts, you also provide an additional contact for the lottery organisation membership.
Good to know when registering
- Without a valid verification code and the details of the membership contact, the domain name can't be registered.
Transfer
Transferring a .lotto
- You need a transfer code to start the transfer.
- Check beforehand that there's no transfer lock on the domain name. You can see this in the WHOIS details.
- If your current registrar has set a transfer lock, ask that registrar to remove it.
- After you submit the request, the registry notifies your current registrar that the domain name is being transferred.
- Your current registrar sends the registrant an email about the transfer. Sometimes this email also goes to the administrative contact, and sometimes you can approve or reject the transfer in it.
- If you neither approve nor reject the transfer, it will be completed automatically after 5 days.
The transfer code
- A transfer requires a transfer code. The registrant or the administrative contact requests it from the current registrar.
- The code is at least 6 and at most 16 characters long.
- The code contains at least one letter, one number and one special character, such as ! $ % ? & @ * + - . / : or ~.
Owner
Change of registrant
- ICANN's transfer policy applies when transferring the domain name to a different owner.
More information
Registry rules and links
- Registry website afilias.info
- Registry whois whois.afilias.net
- Dispute resolution policy afilias.info
- Registry terms and conditions afilias.info
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