The following country-codetop-level domains (ccTLD) have residency requirements or other registration restrictions. Domains which do not follow these criteria can been de-activated by that country's registration authority.
| .at |
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No residency requirements, but the DNS of each .at domain name must be configured at the time of registration (the website needs to be 'live'). Vividign nameservers should be used to meet these criteria. |
| .be |
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No location or nameserver restrictions. No grace period for domains not renewed by the expiry date. |
| .ca |
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Registrants must meet 'Canadian presence' requirements (citizen, landed immigrant, registered trade mark, organization incorporated in a Canadian jurisdiction, etc). |
| .cc |
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No location or nameserver restrictions. |
| .ch |
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No location or nameserver restrictions. Domains must be renewed one month prior to expiry. Deletion requests must be made in writing. |
| .cn |
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No location or nameserver restrictions. No grace period for domains not renewed by the expiry date. |
| .de |
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The Registrant OR the Administrative Contact must reside in Germany and the two name servers associated with the registration must be authoritative, active (website must be 'live') and on different subnets to avoid a single point of failure. Vividign nameservers should be used to meet these criteria. |
| .dk |
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No residency or nameserver requirements, but .DK hostmaster sends a confirmation letter by snail mail to verify the registrant's physical address. |
| .es |
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No location or nameserver restrictions. |
| .eu |
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Only such natural persons, companies and organisations as meet at least one
of the eligibility requirements set out in Article 4(2)(b) of the .eu Regulation are
eligible to apply for registration of a .eu Domain Name. |
| .fr |
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Any adult with a postal address in France will be eligible to register a .FR domain name. |
| .it |
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Highly complicated... it's probably easier to build a nuclear facility in your back yard. Only entities residing in or belonging to a European Union member state can register an .it domain. The administrative contact must be from the same entity applying for the domain. All DNS zones must be pre-configured beforehand.
Individual registrants must suppply date and place of birth, taxpayer code, and residential address.
Corporate registrants must supply VAT registration, date and place of birth of the admin contact, corporate head office address, residential address of admin contact, taxpayer code of admin contact.
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| .mx |
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Domains registered as ".COM.MX". No location or nameserver requirements. |
| .nl |
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Every .nl domain name sale requires a form stating the purchaser’s place of residence (.nl domain names are only available to residents and businesses with a valid address in the Netherlands).
Prior to a domain being registered, the NL zone file manager checks all name servers. This check includes name servers that have not been stated, but are (evidently) incorporated in the zone file of the domain concerned. |
| .tv |
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No location or nameserver restrictions. |
| .uk |
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No location or nameserver restrictions. Domains are only registered as 'second-level': co.uk, net.uk, .org.uk, .me.uk, .plc.uk, or ltd.uk.
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| .us |
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Nexus Category 1:
A natural person (i) who is a US citizen, (ii) a permanent resident of the US or any of its possessions or territories, or (iii) whose primary place of domicile is in the US or any of its possessions.
Nexus Category 2:
US entity or organization that is (i) incorporated within one of the fifty US states, DC, or any of the US possessions or territories
Nexus Category 3: An entity or organization (including a federal, state, or local government of the US, or a political subdivision thereof) that has a bona fide presence in the US or any of its possessions or territories.
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