.SC Domain Name Rules/Requirements

Domain Name related Rules

Common Domain Name Rules (Anchor: common)

Domain Name Registration (Anchor: reg)

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

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

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

    Additional Information

    Bulk Registration

  • Upon Registering a .SC domain name, you may not Transfer-Away from cxwz, until 60 days.

  • Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) are supported under .SC domain names.

Domain Name Renewal (Anchor: ren)

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

  • Upon Expiry of a .SC domain name:

    • any service such as email, website, etc., configured for this domain name would stop functioning, until the domain name is Renewed.

    • if the .SC domain name is not Renewed until 40 days, the domain name would get Deleted and would slip into Redemption Grace Period.

      Additional Information

      What is Redemption Grace Period?

Domain Name Transfer (Anchor: trf)

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

  • .SC domain names have a 60-Day Transfer Lock placed on them, after they are Transferred.

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

    The length of a Domain (Transfer) Secret Key/Authorization Code may vary between 6 to 16 characters.

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

    Additional Information

    Bulk Transfer

Contact Details related Rules (Anchor: contact)

  • .SC domain names are available for registration to any individual.

  • .SC domain names use the General Contact database in the system.

    .SC domain names use the following 4 Contacts:

    • Registrant Contact

    • Administrative Contact

    • Technical Contact

    • Billing Contact

  • .SC Contacts do not support accented characters.

  • .SC domain names support cxwz's Privacy Protection feature.

    Additional Information

    What is Privacy Protection?

  • The Bulk Modify and Bulk Privacy Protection features are available for .SC domain names.

    Additional Information

    Bulk Modify

    Bulk Privacy Protection

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

  • Each .SC domain name needs to have at least 2 Name Servers and may have upto 13 Name Servers.

  • There is no limitation on the number of Child Name Servers you may create.

  • You may associate upto 13 IP Addresses per Child Name Server.

  • You may associate IPv6 Address in Child Name Servers.

  • You may modify both Name Servers as well as any Child Name Servers associated with your .SC domain name.