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As a registrar, you are responsible for all procedures involving registration and maintenance of domain names. In this section, you’ll find detailed guides and technical specifications for these procedures. There is also a separate page with a summary of general requirements for holders, domain names and domain subscriptions.

General requirements

As a registrar, you are responsible for all procedures involving registration and maintenance of domain names. In this section, we have collected all of the general requirements that apply to domain holders, domain names and domain name subscriptions, as well as requirements that apply to holder authentication. 

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Change registrar

Domain name subscribers are free to find a new registrar whenever they want. Your responsibility is to make sure the transfer is as smooth as possible, without problems or delays, regardless of whether you are the old registrar or the new.

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What happens with domain names during a complaint to the Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee

As a registrar, you have an important role to play if you get a customer who has succeeded with a complaint to the Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee. When the committee renders its ruling, the customer has 15 business days to have the domain name transferred to them. If this deadline is not met, your customer will lose their rights to get the domain name transferred.

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Norid’s systems: Planned maintenance

About the calendar Planned work that might cause registry service disturbances or outages will be announced in this calendar. The entries will have the ‘REGISTRYOPS’ category. Each entry will also have a tag that signals the anticipated severity level of the service disturbances: Background From time to time Norid staff have to perform maintenance work …

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Procedures for personal IDs

Private individuals must create a personal ID before they can register a domain name. The purpose of this procedure is to protect the domain name holder’s national identity number. The holder must personally create the personal ID using our tool. Personal IDs are used to register and follow up on private domain names, and are stored …

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