About . AUTO Domains – Cheap Domain Registration

XYZ is the sponsor and Uniregistry is the backend provider for the .auto extension.

Registration periods

Phase Dates
Sunrise December 22, 2015 at 16:00 UTC to January 12, 2016 at 16:00 UTC
Early Access Begins January 12, 2016 at 16:00 UTC
General availability Begins January 20, 2016 at 16:00 UTC

These domain names can have up to 63 characters, with a minimum of 1 character, and can contain letters (a-z), numbers (0-9) and hyphens (except in the 3rd or 4th characters of the domain name). You cannot register domain names with special characters such as & and #.

Features Availability
Registration length 1 – 10 years
Renewal length 1 – 10 years
Transfers to
Transfers away
Private Registration
Protected Registration
Backorders
Bulk Registration ✓ (not supported during Sunrise)
Account change
Contact updates
IDNs Cyrillic, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish

Who can register .auto domains?

Anyone can register .auto domain names on a first-come, first-served basis.

Renewals

We’ll attempt to auto-renew your .auto domain on its expiration date. We’ll park .auto domain names after the first failed billing attempt. If the domain isn’t renewed within 40 days following expiration, we cancel it and remove it from your account.

Nameserver requirements

One nameserver is required for .auto domains to resolve, and a maximum of 13 nameservers is allowed. DNSSEC, IPv4 and IPv6 are supported.