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The new Norwegian .co.no domain will be launched on November 1, 2010.
.CO.NO domain opens registration possibilities of a Norwegian domain name to parties that can’t at the moment:
• private persons in Norway
• companies without an entity in Norway
• Norwegian companies that already have registered 20 .no domains Continue reading ‘.CO.NO domains launch on November 1st’
The new Norwegian CO.NO domain will be launched on November 1, 2010.
CO.NO domain opens registration possibilities of a Norwegian domain name to parties that can’t at the moment: Continue reading ‘.CO.NO domains launch soon’
A domain name must consist of at least 2 and at most 63 characters. The characters permitted in the domain name are a z, digits (0 9), as well as national characters described in the table below.
Name of letter
- a with acute accent
- A with grave accent
- A with umlaut
- C with caron
- C with cedilla
- D with crossbar
- E with acute accent
- E with grave accent
- E with circumflex accent
- ENG (sometimes written as N with acute accent)
- N with acute accent
- N with tilde
Unicode
- á 00E1
- Ã 00E0
- ä 00E4
- ç 010D
- ç 00E7
- d 0111
- é 00E9
- è 00E8
- ê 00EA
- ? 014B
- n 0144
- ñ 00F1
Name of letter
- O with acute accent
- O with grave accent
- O with circumflex accent
- O with umlaut
- S with caron
- T with crossbar
- U with umlaut
- Z with caron
- Æ
- Ø
- Ã…
Unicode
- ó 00F3
- ò 00F2
- ô 00F4
- ö 00F6
- Å¡ 0161
- t 0167
- ü 00FC
- ž 017E
- æ 00E6
- ø 00F8
- å 00E5
The domain name must include at least one letter or hyphen. The first and the last character in the domain name must be a letter or a digit.
The domain name must not be identical to a registered domain name.
Certain domain names are reserved or prohibited and may not be registered.
Requirements for the applicant
The applicant must be an organization registered in Norway’s Central Coordinating Register for Legal Entities (Enhetsregisteret). The organization must have a Norwegian postal address.
At any time, each organization may have up to 20 domain names, directly under .no. An organization may also have up to 5 domain names under each geographical domain to which the organization belongs, as well as 5 domain names under each generic domain to which the organization belongs.
Individuals may not register domain names under any of the domains that the Registry manages. Individuals can however register domain names under priv.no.
Requirements for the name server
A condition for registration is that at least two name servers must be specified. All specified name servers must be correctly set up for the domain applied, and must function at the time that the application comes to the Registry. Only delegated domains can be registered.
The name servers for the domain must be identified by the domain name and the corresponding IP address. There are also certain technical requirements.
The name servers may be run by someone other than the applicant.
Requirements for the application
The application must be submitted by a registrar who has a contract with the Registry.
Registry’s forms must be used.
A separate application must be submitted for each domain name. An organization that satisfies the registration requirements under several domains may apply for registration in one or more of these. The application must clearly state the domain to which it applies. A declaration form must be signed before the application is submitted.
The form must be completed and submitted according to the Registry’s guidelines. The registrar should assist the applicant with this.
General rules for the procedures
The Registry’s procedures must follow basic principles of independence and equitable treatment. Parts of the procedures are automatic.
If the application is approved, the registrar is automatically notified of this by e mail. The registrar must forward the message to the applicant within 14 calendar days.
Any rejection by the Registry of an application for a domain name must always state the grounds for the decision. The Registry’s decision is communicated by e mail to the registrar who forwarded the application. The registrar must forward the message to the applicant within 14 calendar days.
The Registry can change its decision on its own initiative, but will normally not change it to the disadvantage of the applicant domain name holder.
Notification of change
The Registry must be notified of all changes in registered information (notice of change). This applies to changes in both technical and contact information.
Any substitution or modification of the domain name is not regarded as a change, but as a new registration. This means that a normal application for the new domain name must be submitted.
The Registry sends an e mail message confirming that the change has been made to the party that submitted the notice of change, the ISPs concerned and the domain’s legal contact.
Transfer, suspension or deletion
Any application for transfer must be accompanied by the written approval of the domain name holder. The organization designated by the holder for a transfer of the domain name must satisfy the applicant requirements for a new application. A domain name may however be transferred without the written approval of the holder if there is a final judgment regarding the transfer of the domain to another organization and this organization satisfies the domain name policy requirements for the transfer, including a signed declaration form.
The holder may require a temporary suspension of the domain name (hold). This does not mean that the registration is changed or lost. While suspended, the name will not function, but nobody else will be able to register it. Suspension may be requested for up to 6 months. At any time, the holder may request that the suspension be lifted. Suspension may not be requested again within 2 years of being lifted. In the event of a legal conflict where the holder’s right to the name and its use is challenged, the holder may request suspension regardless of any previous suspensions and until final judgment in the matter. Suspension has no effect on the obligation to pay the ordinary fees.
The holder may request deletion of a domain name. Any application for deletion must be accompanied by the written approval of the holder. Deletion does not entail any right to a refund of the fees paid.
The Registry will confirm any transfer, suspension or deletion by e mail to the registrar and the domain’s legal contact.
Compulsory deletion of domain names
The following circumstances may result in deletion of the registration of a domain name and making the domain name available to others:
- A claim for deletion in accordance with a final judgment regarding deletion of the domain name.
- The registration was based on incorrect information provided by or on behalf of the applicant. Lack of a signed declaration form is regarded as incorrect information. The holder of the domain name shall be given an opportunity to respond before deletion takes place.
- The holder of the domain name is no longer registered in Norway’s Central Coordinating Register for Legal Entities, or has ceased to exist.
- Insufficient payment of registration fees or annual fees after the deadline specified in the late payment notice has elapsed.
- The domain is not technically operative.
- The designated contact for the holder of the domain name cannot be reached.
- Any situation that involves non fulfillment of the applicant’s responsibility or duties in accordance with the domain name policy or the declaration form.
Unless otherwise stated, notice will be sent by e mail to the holder of the domain name at least 60 days before a reversal or deletion is implemented.
Why register your own domain name?
The domain name is your organization’s identity on the Internet, that is, the name of your organization’s web pages. The domain name is also a part of the e mail addresses for your organization. In addition, the domain name is used for naming the organization’s servers on the Internet.
It is not required for you to have a domain name in order to have web pages. Search engines on the World Wide Web search for titles and content in documents, not for domain names. If you simply want to publish something on the web this can easily be solved by a catalogue structure on your Internet Service Provider’s (ISP) web server. It could be of the form: http://www.isp.no/your_organization/.
Is it possible to register domain names with Norwegian national characters?
You may register domain names with characters from all official Norwegian written languages, that is bokmail, nynorsk, nordsamisk (North Sa¡mi), sa¸rsamisk (South Sa¡mi) and lulesamisk (Lule Sa¡mi).
Domain names with Norwegian national characters will not be as robust as domain names containing standard characters only. As the domain name system is international, it will necessarily raise problems when exchanging addresses containing national characters. All characters can not be entered from all keyboards and a certain amount of software both mail clients and browsers are not yet developed to handle national characters in the addresses. For this reason, it is recomended that those who chose a domain name containing national characters to add a standard character version of the name as well.
To allow national characters (for instance a/a¸Ã¥) to be handled by browsers and mail clients, it is decided upon an international standard for translating them, ACE. The translated domain name will not by itself be readable. For instance: the domain name blAibA_rsyltetAi¸ no will in the ACE format be translated to xn blbrsyltety y8ao3x.no.
Why must I maintain registered data?
All registrations of domain names are done in accordance with current domain name policy. In order for Norway Registry to be able to ensure that the requirements set in the name policy are pursued, all given data in registering must be maintained. This applies to both administrative data, such as the name of the administrative contact person, and technical data, for example name server information.
The Registry is dependent on being able to reach the administrative contact person when necessary. Such a need can arise when solving technical or administrative problems, or when conflicts regarding domain names arise.
It is the organization itself, through the administrative contact person, which is responsible for keeping the Registry’s registered information on its domain name up to date and correct.
How do I get an IP address?
Today one has the following three alternatives to get an IP address:
- Ose of RFC 1918 addresses:
- Get IP addresses through a service provider:
- Act as own local registration authority for IP addresses:
If several firms are going to communicate with this type of address, they must naturally ensure that they are coordinated internally, in order for them to avoid address conflicts. One way of reducing the probability of such address conflicts, is to use a randomized address distribution inside of RFC 1918 blocks, so that not everyone starts on for example 192.168.1.1. This is a relationship which does not concern those connected to the global Internet.
Service providers will be able to allow various requirements for distribution of IP addresses as long as they follow the rules from RIPE.
One can set up an own local registration authority, and get allocated for further distribution of a block with IP addresses from RIPE. This depends on the willingness to cover the costs to RIPE, and furthermore follow the rules regarding distribution.
What is DNS?
DNS (Domain Name System) is the Internet service which connects different names together with machine numbers from the Internet and thereby makes it possible to send information to the right place on the net. DNS functions purely as a distributed database spread over many machines, so called name server machines.
For problem free use of all Internet services, it is important that all machines in the local net which serve Internet users are correctly registered in DNS.
What is ACE?
It is only possible to register domain names containing the letters a z, the figures 0 9 and hyphens, in DNS. IDN is a technique which makes it possible to use national characters (for instance æøå) in domain names by translating them into a version called ACE format which only uses the original characters. It is this version that is registered in DNS. Domain names consisting of regular characters do also have an ACE form, but this form is identical with the domain name.
The ACE format can be used by programs that support IDN, and by older programs that don’t. Programs that support IDN will be able to translate between the two versions so that the user will be able to see and write domain names with national characters in addition to the ACE format.
What is PGP?
PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) is an application for exchanging files or messages with confidentiality and authentication. The Registry and its registrars use PGP to ensure that the messages come from registrars and that the messages are unaltered.
Which kinds of software handle domain names with national characters?
Netscape 7.1 or newer, Mozilla 1.4 or newer and Opera 7.20 or newer have made versions with built in support for domain names with national characters.
In order to upgrade Internet Explorer 5.0, 5.5 or 6.0 to make it support domain names with national character, you have to download a plugin called i Nav from Verisign. Verisign have also made plugins for Outlook and Outlook Express so that you can send and receive e mail with national characters.
