New extension
.voto domain name
What you need to know about .voto: who can register it, which details are required and how transferring works.
Specifications
The key details of .voto
- Registry
- rightside.co
- 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 .voto?
- When you register, you must genuinely intend to use the domain name during the current or relevant election period for a clearly defined political or democratic process.
- Registering domain names for later speculation is expressly prohibited.
- You may not register a domain name with the main aim of preventing someone else from registering and using it in good faith.
- You may not use a privacy service that hides your details in the WHOIS.
Transfer
Transferring a .voto
- You need a transfer code to start the transfer.
- Check the WHOIS beforehand to make sure there's no transfer lock on the domain name. As the registrant, you can have a lock set by your current registrar removed by that registrar.
- Once the request has been submitted, the registry notifies your current registrar.
- Your current registrar sends the registrant, and sometimes the administrative contact as well, an email about the transfer. In it, you can sometimes approve or reject the transfer.
- If you neither approve nor reject the transfer, it will be completed automatically after 5 days.
The transfer code
- You need a transfer code. As the registrant or administrative contact, you request it from your current registrar.
- The code is at least 6 and at most 16 characters long.
- The code contains at least one letter, one digit and one special character, such as ! $ % ? & @ * + - . / or :.
Owner
Change of registrant
- A change of registrant falls under ICANN's transfer policy.
More information
Registry rules and links
- Registry website rightside.co
- Registry whois whois.nic.voto
- Dispute resolution policy afilias.info
Related extensions
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