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The details registered about me/my company are incorrect or out of date.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.
At the end of the first quarter, the total number of registered .nl domain names was 5,617,753. That equates to a net increase of 13,948. Although the growth was modest by historical standards (the domain grew by about 25,000 names as recently as the first quarter of 2015), it was higher than we had expected. Our forecasts had suggested that new registrations would start to fall gradually, but in fact they remained roughly unchanged.
The number of new domain names registered during the quarter topped 230,000, while the number of cancellations was 222,000. Overall growth includes domain names reinstated from quarantine, of which there were about four thousand last quarter.
Figure 1 Numbers of creates and deletes and net growth per quarter
Figure 2: DNSSEC in .nl
The number of DNSSEC domain names grew more than the total number of registered .nl domain names, by just over 15,000 to 2,499,811. That means that 44.5 per cent of the zone is now signed.
International
The global total number of registered domain names went up by 11.7 million to nearly 291 million. While growth was 10 per cent down on Q4 2015, it was nevertheless the third highest quarterly figure recorded since we started monitoring global numbers (see graph below).
Figure 3 Global net growth per quarter
It was the second quarter in a row that very high growth was recorded. Again, the biggest drivers were .com and .cn. Those domains hit net growth figures of 2.5 and 2.2 million, respectively, and accounted for 40 per cent of the overall increase. However, a number of new gTLDs also grew by several hundred thousand, with eye-catching performances by .xyz (+920,000), .top (+850,000) and .wang (+470,000).
Figure 4 League table of TLDs (asterisked figures are estimates)
