I am looking for a domain name registrant. Where can I look it up?
The Whois is an easy-to-use tool for checking the availability of a .nl domain name. If the domain name is already taken, you can see who has registered it.
On the page looking up a domain name you will find more information about what a domain name is, how the Whois works and how the privacy of personal data is protected. Alternatively, you can go straight to look for a domain name via the Whois.
I would like to transfer my domain name to another registrar. What is the procedure?
To get your domain name transferred, you need the token (unique ID number) for your domain name. Your existing registrar has the token and is obliged to give it to you within five days, if you ask for it. The procedure for changing your registrar is described on the page transferring your domain name.
The details registered about me/my company are incorrect or out of date. How can I get them updated?
To update the contact details associated with your domain name, you need to contact your registrar. Read more about updating contact details.
Why is my domain name in quarantine?
When a domain name is cancelled, we aren't told the reason, so we can't tell you. You'll need to ask your registrar. The advantage of quarantine is that, if a name's cancelled by mistake, you can always get it back.
One common reason is that the contract between you and your registrar says you've got to renew the registration every year. If you haven't set up automatic renewal and you don't renew manually, the registration will expire.
Ik heb een klacht over mijn provider/registrar. Kan ik daarvoor bij SIDN terecht?
Wanneer je een klacht hebt over of een geschil met je registrar dan zijn er verschillende mogelijkheden om tot een oplossing te komen. Hierover lees je meer op pagina klacht over registrar. SIDN heeft geen formele klachtenprocedure voor het behandelen van een klacht over jouw registrar.
What conditions do I have to meet as a registrar?
Would you like to be able to register domain names for customers or for your own organisation by dealing directly with SIDN? If so, you can become a .nl registrar. Read more about the conditions and how to apply for registrar status on the page becoming a registrar.
The .nl domain enjoyed a relatively positive quarter. Net growth in the second quarter was 25,448, bringing the total number of registered .nl domain names up to 5,643,201. Underlying the net growth figure were 204,048 new registrations and 182,405 cancellations. The number of DNSSEC-secured domain names rose to 2,502,619.
Growth was higher than expected because the number of cancellations was not as high as anticipated. The cancellation rate appears to be slackening throughout the registrar community. For some time now, the registration and cancellation numbers have followed near-parallel courses. That is in contrast to the pattern in the period up to the middle of 2014, during which registrations were falling while cancellations were rising, as can be seen in the following graph.
Figure 1 Numbers of creates and deletes and net growth of .nl per quarter
Number of registrars
The number of .nl registrars continues its linear decline. We now have a total of 1,398 registrars: about the number we had at the end of 2002.
Figure 2 Number of registrars
Growth in the number of DNSSEC-secured domain names has levelled off. Just under three thousand more domain names were secured with DNSSEC at the end of the quarter than at the start. The total number at the close was 2,502,619, or 44.3 per cent of the .nl zone.
New gTLDs
In order to maintain a good overview of the global market for domain names, we keep statistics on about 1,200 cc, g and nTLDs. Unfortunately, registries vary a lot in the frequency and consistency with which they publish data. We are currently without up-to-date figures for .cn (China), making it impossible to say much about how the market as a whole developed last quarter. This summary of developments therefore considers the new gTLDs more closely instead.Over the last four quarters, the new gTLDs have been growing rapidly. The following graph shows the net quarterly growth of all new gTLDs collectively, since the first ones came on line in early 2014.
Figure 3 Number of nTLD domain names
In the last quarter, the lead was taken by .xyz, which grew by 3.7 million names, .top (900,000) and .vip (400.000). The growth was driven almost entirely by demand from China, where there has been a whirlwind of registration activity. Huge numbers have been registered, partly because of the (extremely) low prices. A .top domain name costs the equivalent of about € 0.55 and, during a promotional period, .xyz domain names were available for € 0.02 or less. It remains to be seen how long the growth will continue and what will happen after a year, when domain names registered at bargain process come up for renewal (probably at higher prices). When other domains, such as .berlin and .info, adopted similar marketing strategies, a high proportion of the domain names registered at introductory prices were not subsequently renewed.
