.dog domains

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For only
49
’95
€/year

We are a .dog accredited registrar. More information

Generic: .DOG

Worldwide, there are millions of people who have dogs as a pet. They're the most loved pet by, thanks to their high intelligence they are considered "man's best friend".

With .DOG extension, all dog lovers, individuals, groups, businesses, food stores, trainers, dog forums... will be able to create their website with the perfect extension.

Premium Domains

Some .dog domains are premium names with a higher initial registration fee over a standard registration with all subsequent renewals and transfers at a standard rate. All .dog search results will automatically reflect premium names fees.

.dog domain rates and features

Domain rates .dog

Action Periodes Price
Registration 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 year(s) 49,95 €
Renewal 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 year(s) 49,95 €
Transfer 1 year(s) 49,95 €
Restore Does not include renewal 80,00 €

Features

  • Domain length between 1 and 63 characters
  • IDN characters are permitted
  • Allows DNS modification
  • DNSSEC
  • Whois Privacy
  • The domains, once the transfer ends, extend they expiration date for one year
  • Possibility to block transfers

.dog domain life cycle

Domain available
Domain registration
Domain active
Expiration date
42 days
Renew grace period
30 days
Redemption period
5 days
Pending delete
Deletion date
Domain available

.dog domain regulations

Residency requirements

This extension doesn't have any residency requirements.

Technical requirements

This extension doesn't have any technical requirements.

Registrations

.dog domain registrations are immediate.

Transfers

To complete .DOG domain transfer, you'll need your current registrar to provide you the domain's AuthCode or EPP-Key to verify the ownership of the domain.

Transfers can take between 5 and 7 days to complete. Some registrars provide manual transfers allowing transfers to be completed on the same day, contact your current registrar to find out if they offer this service.

More information about .DOG domain transfers.

The domains, once the transfer ends, extend they expiration date for one year

Renewals

Renewing your .DOG domain only takes a minute and can completed at any time.

Cancellations

It's possible to request a cancellation of your .DOG domain, visit the support center to open a support ticket. Please note, cancelling a name does not provide a refund of any registration fees.

DNS modifications

DNS modification is immediate, please note they must propagate through the network, this process can take up to 6-12 hours to complete, until then the domain will still point to the previous DNS servers.

DNSSEC

We allow the usage of DNSSEC on .dog domains. Your domain can take advantage of this additional security layer that DNS servers that are compatible with this technology can provide.
More information is available at: DNSSEC: What is it and how does it work.

Domain owner change

Beginning December 1st, 2016, any ownership changes of .DOG domains requires both the current and new owner to accept any changes. Once the ownership change has been completed, the domain is locked and unable to be transferred for a 60-day period.

More information: https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/transfer-policy-2016-06-01-en.

Permitted characters / IDN

.dog domains permit characters from 'a' to 'z', numbers from '0' to '9' and hyphens '-'.
A hyphen '-' is not permitted in the first or last position of the domain name.
Two consecutive hyphens are not permitted in the 3rd and 4th position.
IDN characters are permitted in .dog domains.

Permitted IDN character table for .dog domains

An Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) is a domain name that can contain non ASCII characters.

Unicode Script Hyphen (-) Digits (0-9) Characters (a-z)
Chinese Yes Yes Yes
German Yes Yes Yes
French Yes Yes Yes
Spanish Yes Yes Yes
Arabic Yes Yes
Cyrillic Yes Yes
Devanagari Yes Yes
Greek Yes Yes
Hebrew Yes Yes
Japanese Yes Yes Yes
Korean Yes Yes Yes
Latin Yes Yes Yes
Tamil Yes Yes
Thai Yes Yes

IDN domains don't permit to mix different Scripts or character sets (for example, Latin, Greek or Cyrillic).
But it's possible to use different character tables for a same script.

  • The Latin Script permits the use of characters of Latin-1 supplement, Latin Extended-A, Latin Extended-B, etc.. tables.
  • The Greek Script permits to combine characters of the Greek, Greek Extended, etc.. tables, doesn't permit combine them with the normal latin characters (a-z), but permits the use of numbers or hyphens.
  • Other script types have their own corresponding tables.

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