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.wien domain name
What you need to know about .wien: who can register it, which details are required and how transferring works.
Specifications
The key details of .wien
- Registry
- nic.wien
- Registration period
- 1 to 10 years
- Renewal period
- 1 to 10 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: no
- Trustee: yesIf you don't meet the local address requirement, you can use a trustee service.
Requirements
Who can register a .wien?
- Any individual, legal entity, organisation or association can register a .wien domain name, provided you want to show an economic, cultural, tourist, historical, social or other connection with Vienna, the Austrian capital.
- Whether you have that connection with Vienna isn't checked at registration. However, someone can have this reviewed later through a registry dispute procedure concerning the registration conditions.
Good to know when registering
- After a successful registration, the registry places a 60-day transfer lock on the domain name.
- Premium names and reserved names are sold by the registry itself. You can only register them with an authorisation code that you buy from the registry.
Transfer
Transferring a .wien
- The transfer is requested from the registry using the transfer code. The registry automatically notifies the current registrar that the domain name is being transferred.
- The current registrar sends the registrant, and sometimes also the administrative contact, an email about the transfer. In some cases, you can approve or reject the transfer in 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 name. You can check this in the WHOIS.
- If your current registrar has set a transfer lock, you as the registrant can ask for it to be removed.
The transfer code
- To transfer a domain, you need a transfer code. As the registrant or administrative contact, you request it from your current registrar.
- The code is at least 8 and at most 32 characters long.
- The code must contain at least one letter, one number and one special character, such as ! $ % ? & @ * + - or ~.
Owner
Change of registrant
- ICANN's transfer policy applies to a change of registrant.
More information
Registry rules and links
- Registry website nic.wien
- Registry whois whois.nic.wien
- Dispute resolution policy icann.org
- Registry terms and conditions nic.wien
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