.academy domains
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Education: .ACADEMY
Thanks to the .academy domains new opportunities have been created for websites related with education, wether they’re schools, universities or online/offline teachers that offer services.
Premium Domains
Some .academy 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 .academy search results will automatically reflect premium names fees.
Rates and features of .academy domains
Domain rates .academy
| Action | Periodes | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Registration | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 year(s) | 39,95 € |
| Renewal | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 year(s) | 39,95 € |
| Transfer | 1 year(s) | 39,95 € |
| Restore | Does not include renewal | 60,00 € |
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
.academy domain life cycle
Domain .academy regulations
Residency requirements
This extension doesn't have any residency requirements.
Technical requirements
This extension doesn't have any technical requirements.
Registrations
.academy domain registrations are immediate.
Transfers
To complete .ACADEMY 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 .ACADEMY domain transfers.
The domains, once the transfer ends, extend they expiration date for one year
Renewals
Renewing your .ACADEMY domain only takes a minute and can completed at any time.
Cancellations
It's possible to request a cancellation of your .ACADEMY 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 .academy 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 .ACADEMY 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
- .academy 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 .academy domains.
Permitted IDN character table for .academy 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.
Official documentation
Frequent Questions
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How to check if a .academy domain is available?
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Can I transfer a .academy domain registered with another provider?
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You can transfer your .academy domain from transfer by following the steps provided there.
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