About .ac Domains
Nic.ac (operated by Donuts) is the sponsor and Donuts is our backend provider for the country-code top-level domain name (ccTLD) .ac extensions that represents Ascension and Tristan da Cunha Islands.
Who can register .ac domains?
Anyone can register .ac domain names.
Registration restrictions
When registering a .ac domain, you must follow specific requirements.
- Must use: 3 - 63 Characters
- Can use: Letters: a-z, Numbers: 0-9, Hyphens (except in the 1st or last characters of the domain name)
- Cannot use: Special Characters (e.g., & and #)
- IDNs: Not supported
Features
- Registration length: 1-10 years
- Renewal length: 1-10 years
- Your .ac domain renews before its expiration date. If auto-renew is turned on, we'll attempt renewal 35 days prior to the domain's expiration date. If the first attempt fails, we'll continue attempting renewal multiple times prior to the domain's expiration date.
- If we cannot auto-renew the domain name and you do not manually renew it by the expiration date, you can attempt to recover your domain with any applicable fees.
- Due to time zone differences, registry updates to your .ac domain name occur very early in the day. If you decide to manually renew your domain name, we recommend that you do so prior to its expiration date.
- Backorders: Not supported
- Transfers to Secureserver.net Domain Name Web Hosting: Supported
- Transfers away from Secureserver.net Domain Name Web Hosting: Supported
- Transfer Lock: Supported
- Transfers to another Secureserver.net Domain Name Web Hosting account: Supported
- Domain Privacy: Supported
- Domain Protection: Supported
- Contact Updates: Supported
Nameserver requirements
- Must use: 1-13 Nameservers
- Can use: IPv4, IPv6, DNSSEC
Refunds
For details on refunds, review our refund policy
More info
- Check out our most common domain articles to get started with your .ac domain.