Domain Name Rules

• .COM - to be used for commercial and personal sites
• .NET - recommended for companies involved in Internet infrastructure
• .ORG - recommended for not-for-profit organizations
• Use only letters, numbers, or hyphen ("-")
• Cannot begin or end with a hyphen
• Must have less than 63* characters, not including .COM, .NET and .ORG

* .com, .net and .org domain names exceeding a total of 26 characters are supported by most web browsers. However, certain web browsers, email programs and other Internet related applications may not support domain names over 26 characters.

• .INFO - to be used for both commercial and personal sites
• Use only letters, numbers, or hyphen ("-")
• Cannot begin or end with a hyphen
• Must have at least 3 characters and less than 63 characters, not including .INFO
• At this time, .INFO does not support multilingual domain names in foreign character sets, but it may in the future.

• .BIZ - to be used for both commercial and personal sites
• Use only letters, numbers, or hyphen ("-")
• Cannot begin or end with a hyphen
• Cannot have two hyphens in a row
• Must have at least 3 characters and less than 63 characters, not including .BIZ

• .CC - Cocos (Keeling) Islands, to be used for commercial and personal sites
• Use only letters, numbers, or hyphen ("-")
• Cannot begin or end with a hyphen
• Cannot contain all numbers
• Must have at least 3 characters, but less than 47, not including .CC