.ws domains

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’95
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Oceania: Samoa

Even being the territorial domain of Western Samoa, the .WS extension is interpreted by many as the abbreviation of the word "Web Site", but it was created in year 1995 as an abbreviation of Western Samoa. It's currently being operated by SamoaNIC.

Premium Domains

Some .ws 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 .ws search results will automatically reflect premium names fees.

.ws domain rates and features

Domain rates .ws

Action Periodes Price
Registration 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 year(s) 24,95 €
Renewal 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 year(s) 24,95 €
Transfer 1 year(s) 24,95 €
Restore Does not include renewal 80,00 €

Features

  • Domain length between 2 and 63 characters
  • IDN characters are permitted
  • Allows DNS modification
  • DNSSEC not allowed
  • Whois Privacy
  • The domains, once the transfer ends, extend they expiration date for one year
  • Possibility to block transfers

.ws 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

.ws domain regulations

Residency requirements

This extension doesn't have any residency requirements.

Technical requirements

This extension doesn't have any technical requirements.

Registrations

.ws domain registrations are immediate.

Transfers

To complete .WS 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 .WS domain transfers.

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

Renewals

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

Cancellations

It's possible to request a cancellation of your .WS 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.

Domain owner change

.WS domains permit automatic owner changes, you'll be able to change this data from your client area.

Permitted characters / IDN

.ws 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 .ws domains.

Permitted IDN character table for .ws 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)
Croatian Yes Yes
Greek, Modern Yes Yes
Russian Yes Yes
Serbian Yes Yes
Korean Yes Yes Yes
Azerbaijani Yes Yes
Macedonian Yes Yes
Bulgarian Yes Yes
Moldavian Yes Yes
Kurdish Yes Yes
Japanese Yes Yes Yes
Danish Yes Yes Yes
German Yes Yes Yes
Latvian Yes Yes Yes
Swedish Yes Yes Yes
Portuguese Yes Yes Yes
Icelandic Yes Yes Yes
Catalan Yes Yes Yes
Finnish Yes Yes Yes
Hungarian Yes Yes Yes
Lithuanian Yes Yes Yes
Spanish Yes Yes Yes
Chinese Yes Yes Yes
Emoji Yes 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.

Official documentation

In this section you will find links to official documentation of the extension.

  • .WS don't have extra documentation.

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