Pre-register Your .SO Domains Early!
dotSO is the Country Code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) for The Republic of Somalia. With this ccTLD being re-delegated to The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (MoPT) in April of 2009, the .SO registry has since been preparing for its worldwide release on March 1, 2011. HEXONET anticipates strong interest in this ccTLD and will start accepting Landrush and Go-Live Pre-registrations on October 1, 2010 @ 10:00 a.m. CEST.
Landrush & Landrush Auction Info:
- Landrush Period: December 16, 2010 - February 9th, 2011
- Domains with multiple Landrush applications go to auction
- Landrush Auction Period: February 10th - February 28th, 2011
- Acceptable Characters: Min. 3, Max. 63, letters, numbers, and hyphens ("-") - however hyphens at the beginning or directly in front of the TLD will not be accepted
- Registration Periods: 1 - 10 Years
- Domain Name Registration Policies: View
- Landrush Pricing: $19.04 (net: 16.00) USD per Domain/Year for ALL PRICE CLASSES
Go-Live Info:
- Go-Live: March 1, 2011
- Allocated on a First-come-First-Served basis
- Characters: Min. 3, Max. 63, letters, numbers, hyphens ("-") - however hyphens at the beginning or directly in front of the TLD will not be accepted
- Registration Periods: 1 - 10 Years
- Domain Name Registration Policies: View
- Go-Live Pricing:
- Reseller: $19.04 (net: 16.00) USD per Domain/Year
- Premium: $17.37 (net: 14.60) USD per Domain/Year
- Platinum: $15.11 (net: 12.70) USD per Domain/Year
Pre-registration Billing: (IMPORTANT)
For Landrush and Go-Live, on December 16, 2010 and February 14, 2011 respectively, HEXONET will attempt to withdraw the total cost of all your .SO Pre-registrations from your reseller account. This deduction is only to reserve funds in case all your Pre-registrations are successful. Reserved funds will be returned back to your account if any Pre-registrations are not successful or if you delete a Pre-registration 24 hours prior to the respective Landrush or Go-Live launch date.
Please note, that for Go-Live only, 24 hours prior to the actual launch, HEXONET will stop accepting Pre-registrations altogether. Additional domain requests will be queued up and submitted to the registry once our main batch-queue has been submitted successfully. As always, if any Pre-registrations should fail, refunds will automatically be applied to your reseller account.
Pre-registration via API
command = AddDomainApplication
class = SO_LANDRUSH | SO_GOLIVE
domain = example.so
period = 1Y | 2Y | 3Y | 4Y | 5Y | 6Y | 7Y | 8Y | 9Y | 10Y
ownercontact0 = (CONTACT)
admincontact0 = (CONTACT)
techcontact0 = (CONTACT)
billingcontact0 = (CONTACT)
nameserver0 = (NAMESERVER)
nameserver1 = (NAMESERVER)
nameserver2 = (NAMESERVER)
Pre-registration via Control Panel
Pre-registrations can be submitted through the Control Panel by logging into your account and navigating to "Manage Products > Domains" and clicking the "Pre-reg Admin" link in the left side menu. From here one can list existing or submit new Pre-registrations. Users can modify or delete any Pre-registrations without charge up to 24 hours prior to the launch date.