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.mov domain name
What you need to know about .mov: who can register it, which details are required and how transferring works.
Specifications
The key details of .mov
- 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 .mov?
- Websites on a .mov domain only work over a secure HTTPS connection. So to make your website reachable in browsers, you need an SSL certificate.
- .mov is on the HSTS preload list, which means browsers enforce an encrypted connection. Without an SSL certificate, you can still use the domain for email, for other applications outside the browser or to protect your name.
Good to know when registering
- Before registering, you must agree to the requirement to use HTTPS.
- You don't need to buy the SSL certificate at the same time as or before the domain. The HTTPS requirement is only enforced by browsers, so the order doesn't matter.
Transfer
Transferring a .mov
- The new registrar submits the transfer to the registry. The registry automatically lets the current registrar know that the transfer has been requested.
- The current registrar sends the registrant, and sometimes the administrative contact too, an email about the transfer. In it, you can usually approve or reject the transfer.
- If you neither approve nor reject the transfer, it's automatically completed after 5 days.
- Make sure the domain doesn't have a transfer lock. You can check whether there's a lock in the WHOIS details.
- Has your current registrar set a transfer lock? As the registrant, you can ask them to remove it.
The transfer code
- You need a transfer code to transfer a domain.
- You get the transfer code from your current registrar. The registrant or the administrative contact of the domain can request it there.
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