About .ISTANBUL Domains – Cheap Domain Registration

Istanbul Dijital Medya Tic A.S is the sponsor and Afilias is the backend provider for the .istanbul extension.

We offer cheap domain registration, cheap domain hosting and domain transfer, domain renewal services with 24/7 customer supports.

Registration periods

Phase Dates
Landrush March 24, 2016 at 18:00 UTC to May 5, 2016 at 16:00 UTC
General availability Begins May 10, 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
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Who can register .istanbul domains?

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

Renewals

We’ll attempt to auto-renew your .istanbul domain on its expiration date. We’ll park .istanbul 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

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

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