About .so Domains
Nic.so is the sponsor and Hexonet aka 1 Api GmbH is our backend provider for the country-code top-level domain name (ccTLD) .so extension that represents Republic of Somalia.
Who can register .so domains?
Important Note: Effective June 6, 2015, Secureserver.net Domain Name Web Hosting is no longer accepting registrations or incoming transfers for the .so extentions. If you already owned a .so domain with Secureserver.net Domain Name Web Hosting prior to June 6, 2015, you can continue to renew your existing .so domain name. Renewals will be limited to a 1 year term only.
Registration restrictions
When registering a .so domain, you must follow specific requirements.
- Must use: 3 - 63 Characters (.so, com.so, net.so), 2 - 63 Characters (org.so)
- Can use: Letters (a-z characters), numbers (0-9) and hyphens (except in the 1st or last characters or consecutive)
- Cannot use: Special Characters (e.g., & and #)
- IDNs: Not supported
Features
- Registration length: Not supported
- Renewal length: 1 year
- Your .so, .com.so, .net.so, and .org.so domain renews before its expiration date. If auto-renew is turned on, we'll attempt renewal 14 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.
- Backorders: Not supported
- Transfers to Secureserver.net Domain Name Web Hosting: Not 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
- Transfers between accounts may take up to 5 days to complete.
- Domain Privacy: Supported
- Domain Protection: Not Supported
- Contact Updates: Supported
Nameserver requirements
- Must use: 2-13 Nameservers
- Can use: IPv4
- Cannot use: 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 .so domain.