Companies located in China, as well as companies or corporations who have business-relations with China can use this domain name.
.com.cn is a Second-Level-Domain of China and is mainly registered for commercial use.
A .net.cn can be used and registered by anyone.
A .org.cn is mainly used by organisations.
Legal requirements
No special requirements, but the domain usage is limited. (The complete China Internet Domain Name Regulations can be found at: http://www.cnnic.cn)
Technical requirements
No special requirements.
Naming conventions
All letters (a-z) and numbers (0-9) are allowed; hyphens (-) are also allowed, however not at the beginning or at the end of the domain name. A domain name should be between 3 and 63 characters long.
.cn domain names transfers to UniNames are possible. The transfer itself is free, but is considered as a new registration; therefore a 1-year fee will be charged (or more years on request).
Exactly 1 year after you have transferred your domain name, it will expire. Keep in mind that any remaining registration time at your former agent will be lost.
Please be aware of the fact that is only possible to transfer the domain name between Neulever Accredited Registrars only.
Procedure
.cn transfers can be requested by sending a transfer request through our website.
The current owner or admin contact will have to provide UniNames with a so-called authorisation code, which can be obtained through the current agent. The owner as well as the admin contact has the right to request this code. If this code is not provided the transfer will not be executed.
UniNames will send you a document that needs to be signed and returned back to UniNames. If not, the transfer will not be executed.
Additional conditions
Please be sure that you provide UniNames with the correct authorisation code, which is unique for each domain. If this is not correct the domain transfer will fail.
Ensure that your domain does not have a lock status (REGISTRAR-LOCK or HOLD). If the domain is locked, then the owner should request his current registrar to unlock it.
The transfer should be initiated some time before the domain name expires. This to avoid that the transfer request is still being processed when the domain has passed its expiration date. If this happens the owner is responsible for the payment of possible fees that may be charged by the current registrar.
Please ensure that the domain is older than 60 days. Otherwise the transfer request will be declined.
The following domain name information can be updated through your UniNames domain control panel.
Processing
Owner contact
Real-time
Admin contact
Real-time
Technical contact
Real-time
Billing contact
Real-time
Name servers
Real-time*
* Changes are processed in real-time but due to the nature of the domain name system it might take 24 to 48 hours before the changes are propagated worldwide.
The .cn WHOIS zone files are updated every 24 to 48 hours.
Updates can be done by any UniNames account having edit permissions on the domain name.
The billing contact of the domain name will automatically receive an invoice to renew the domain name. If the invoice is paid before the domain name expires, the domain name will be renewed.
Note the importance of correct billing information!
If not paid by the end of the month in which the domain name expires
==> the domain name will be deleted
If the owner or the billing contact asks us to let the domain name expire:
the domain owner will be notified by e-mail
the domain billing contact will be notified by e-mail
the accounts with permissions on the domain name will be notified by e-mail
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