.NYC Domain Name Rules/Requirements

Domain Name related Rules

Common Domain Name Rules (Anchor: common)

Domain Name Registration (Anchor: ren)

  • A .NYC domain name may be Registered for 1 to 10 years.

  • A .NYC domain name has a 4 day Money Back Grace Period.

  • The Bulk Registration feature is available for .NYC domain names.

    Additional Information

    Bulk Registration

  • Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) are not supported under .NYC extension.

Domain Name Renewal (Anchor: ren)

  • A .NYC domain name may be Renewed for 1 to 10 years.

  • A .NYC domain name has a Renewal Grace Period of 40 days and a Redemption Grace Period of 30 days.

    Additional Information

    What is Redemption Grace Period?

Domain Name Transfer (Anchor: trf)

  • Upon Transferring a .NYC domain name, the domain name gets renewed by 1 year.

  • The 60 day Registration/Transfer Lock is applicable in case of .NYC domain names.

  • All .NYC domain names have a Domain (Transfer) Secret Key/Authorization Code.

    The length of a Domain (Transfer) Secret Key/Authorization Code may vary between 8 to 32 characters.

  • The Bulk Transfer feature is available for .NYC domain names.

    Additional Information

    Bulk Transfer

Contact Details related Rules (Anchor: contact)

  • .NYC domains are only available for registration by New York City businesses, organizations with an NYC address and individuals with a primary residence in New York City.

  • .NYC domain names use the NYC Contact database in the system.

    .NYC domain names use the following 4 Contacts:

    • Registrant Contact

    • Administrative Contact

    • Technical Contact

    • Billing Contact

  • .NYC domain names do not support MYDO's Privacy Protection feature.

    Additional Information

    What is Privacy Protection?

  • The Bulk Modify features is available for .NYC domain names.

    Additional Information

    Bulk Modify

    Bulk Privacy Protection

Name Servers and Child Name Servers related Rules (Anchor: ns)