Domain name registration .edu (.Educatief) An .edu is the extension for registering a domain name of the type Educatief. Here are our prices, requirements and more information about registering a domain name for the extension .edu.
| General information .edu |
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| Top-level domain: |
.edu |
| Country: |
International |
| Purpose: |
Educational institutions |
| Price a year: |
€ 99.00 |
| Setup fee: |
€ 12.50 |
| Min. registration period: |
1 year |
| IDN Support: |
IDN not available |
| Subdomains (ccSLD): |
No subdomains exist in this top-level domain |
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| Restrictions |
| Min Characters: |
2 |
| Max Characters: |
63 |
| Max registrations: |
1 |
| Local contact: |
No |
| Domain is company name: |
No |
| Allowed characters: |
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| Reserved names: |
Not listed |
| Redemption period: |
30 days |
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| Delegation |
| Nameservers preconfigured: |
No requirements |
| Nameservers on different subnet: |
No |
| Working mailexchanges: |
No |
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| Extra information |
.edu (education) is the generic top-level domain for educational institutions, primarily those in the United States
Created in January 1985 as one of the first top-level domains, .edu was originally intended for educational institutions anywhere in the world. On April 24, 1985 columbia.edu, purdue.edu, rice.edu, and ucla.edu became the first four registered domain names. With few exceptions, however, only educational institutions in the United States registered such domains, while institutions in other countries usually used domain names under the appropriate country code TLD. In some countries a second-level domain is used to indicate an educational institutions (e.g. .edu.mx in Mexico, .edu.au in Australia, .ac.uk and .sch.uk in the United Kingdom) and in others only the country code is used (e.g. in Canada, Germany and France). In Germany, the second-level domain often has a prefix indicating the kind of institution (uni for Universität, fh for Fachhochschule, for instance www.uni-erfurt.de and www.fh-erfurt.de) or, if there are several institutions of the same type, the abbreviation of the institutions name (for instance www.fu-berlin.de, www.tu-berlin.de and www.hu-berlin.de for the three Berlin universities).
Examples of non-US .edu domain is the French polytechnique.edu, the Belgian solvay.edu, the Canadian marianopolis.edu, the Swedish korteboskolan.edu, the Catalonian public university upc.edu, Kosovo uni-pr.edu, the Indian nist.edu or the Thai au.edu. Many institutions whose primary sites are located in local second-level domains run mirror sites in the .edu domain, such as oxford.edu mirroring ox.ac.uk, or monash.edu mirroring monash.edu.au.
The restriction to post-secondary institutions does not apply to the corresponding domains in some other countries. For example, the British .ac.uk second-level domain is also used by Further Education colleges, museums, learned societies and UCAS.
In some countries, .edu.xx is an ordinary domain with no special significance; in others it has been issued to a local Department of Education or has been deliberately reserved and not issued to anyone to prevent confusion. The use of .ac.xx or .edu.xx within individual ccTLD's does not follow one unified international standard.
Institutions may apply for only one name in the .edu domain. |
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