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.nexus domain name
What you need to know about .nexus: who can register it, which details are required and how transferring works.
Specifications
The key details of .nexus
- 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 .nexus?
- Websites on a .nexus domain only work over a secure HTTPS connection, so you'll need an SSL certificate for a working website.
- .nexus is on the HSTS preload list. This means browsers enforce encryption and won't load a .nexus website properly without HTTPS.
Good to know when registering
- You can register a .nexus domain straight away. You don't need to buy the SSL certificate at the same time or beforehand, because the HTTPS requirement is only enforced in the browser.
- Even without an SSL certificate, you can use a .nexus domain for email and other uses outside the browser, or simply to secure your name.
Transfer
Transferring a .nexus
- Once you've requested the transfer, the registry automatically lets the current registrar know that the domain is being transferred.
- The current registrar sends the registrant, and sometimes the administrative contact too, an email about the transfer. You can often approve or reject the transfer from that email.
- If you neither approve nor reject the transfer, it's completed automatically after 5 days.
- Make sure there's no transfer lock on the domain. You can check this in the WHOIS.
- If your current registrar has set a transfer lock, ask that registrar to remove it.
The transfer code
- You need a transfer code to transfer a .nexus domain.
- The registrant or the administrative contact requests the transfer code from the current registrar.
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