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.xin domain name
What you need to know about .xin: who can register it, which details are required and how transferring works.
Specifications
The key details of .xin
- Registry
- donuts.co
- Registration period
- 1 to 10 years
- Renewal period
- 1 to 9 years
- Domain name length
- 2 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: no
- Whois privacy: yesYour details can be hidden in the public Whois.
- Trustee: no
Requirements
Who can register a .xin?
- There are no registration requirements for .xin: anyone can register a domain name.
Good to know when registering
- After a successful registration, the registry places a 60-day transfer lock on the domain name. During this period you can't transfer to another registrar.
- For a premium name, you need a special code issued by the registry.
Transfer
Transferring a .xin
- You request the transfer code from your current registrar. Your new registrar uses it to start the transfer with the registry, which automatically notifies your current registrar.
- Your current registrar sends an email to the registrant, and sometimes to the administrative contact as well. In it, you can often approve or refuse the transfer.
- If you do nothing, the transfer is completed automatically after 5 days.
- There must be no transfer lock on the domain name. You can see this in the WHOIS.
- If your current registrar has locked the domain name, you as the registrant can ask for the lock to be removed.
The transfer code
- You need a transfer code. As the registrant or administrative contact, you get it from your current registrar.
- The code is at least 8 and at most 32 characters long.
- The code contains at least one letter, one digit and one special character, such as ! $ % ? & @ * + - . / : or ~.
Owner
Change of registrant
- ICANN's transfer policy applies to a transfer to a different owner.
More information
Registry rules and links
- Registry website donuts.co
- Dispute resolution policy donuts.domains
- Registry terms and conditions donuts.co
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