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.NL Specifications and Policies

.nl

.NL is the ccTLD for the Netherlands, and is managed by the SIDN Registry.

Specifications

.NL
Duration (Years) 1
Domain Length 2 - 63 Chars
Required NS 2
60 Day Transfer Lock No
Renewal Grace Period 0 Days
Privacy Protection Not Available
Expiary Extention on Transfer 0 Years
Secret Key Length
Restore / Redemption Grace Period 0 Days
Child Name Servers
Theft Protection / Locks No

Restrictions

To activate a .NL domain the name servers must comply with the registry requirements, these include:

 

  • The domain must have both primary and secondary name servers. The namservers specified should be redundant machines on seperate (sub)netwroks.
  • The name servers should be accessible anywhere on the internet via IPv4 and preferably also IPv6
  • The name servers must also be accessible from anywhere using UDP and TCP port 53. If the domain generates query responses more than 512 octlets long, the EDNS0 protocol (RFC 2671) must also be supported.
Before the domain is added to the .NL zone, the .NL zone file manager checks all the associated nameservers, including nameservers that are not specified, but are (or appear to be) included in the zone file of the domain. The checks will check (but not limited to) the followng:
  • The zone file NS records must include at least the specified nameservers
  • The primary data source specified in the MNAME field of the SOA record must be a valid hostname.
  • The RNAME field in the SOA record must follow the syntax referred to in RFC 1912, section 2.2, and must tield a clear, valid email address which accepts mail.
  • The TTL value of NS records of the nameservers included in the .NL zone must not be less than 7200 (2 hours) to prevent unnecessary querying of the .NL zone in the event of misconfigurations. A default value of 172800 (48 hours) is recommended.
  • The expire value in a zone's SOA record should be between 604800 (7 days) and 3456000 (40 days). SIDN's administrative arrangements (e.g. quarantine periods) assume a value in this range. The expire value of the zone must be at least 7 times the refresh value.
  • Every nameserver host at any subdomain level within the .NL domain, there must be a glue (A and possibly AAAA) record in the .NL zone file.

 

Renewal Requirements

If a domain is not renewed before the expiary it is put into a 40 day quarentine period. To renew a domain after it has entered this period will cost a much higher rate than if renewed prior to expiary. Domains are made available for public registration after this period.

Please note: This information is provided for guidance only. XDnet makes no guarentee of the accuracy of information about TLDs.