.be domains

Belgium

The .BE extension was launched in 1989 and managed till year 2000 by the Leuven Catholic University, until it became managed by DNS Belgium.

To the date there have been registered more than one million .BE domains.

Rates and features

.be

7,95 €

There are no restrictions for such domains.

New period when transfer completes

Action	Price/year	Periodes	Dominitis
Registration	7,95 €	1 year(s)	2 dominitis
Renewal	7,95 €	1 year(s)	2 dominitis
Transfer	7,95 €	1 year(s)	2 dominitis
Restore	19,95 €	Includes domain renewal for 1 year	-

Features
Domain length:	2 - 63 characters
Transfer system:	The expiration date changes but a new year isn't added. The new expiration date will be created adding a year to the transfer completion date.

Regulations

.be domain life cycle

				40 days
	Domain registration		Expiration date		Deletion date
Domain available		Domain active		Redemption period		Domain available

Redemption Period

Permitted characters / IDN

.be domains permit characters from 'a' to 'z', numbers from '0' to '9' and hyphens '-'.
A hyphen '-' is not permitted in the first or last position of the domain name.
Two consecutive hyphens are not permitted in the 3rd and 4th position.
IDN characters are permitted in .be domains.

Permitted IDN character table for .be domains

An Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) is a domain name that can contain non ASCII characters.

Hyphen (-)
Digits (0-9)
Characters (a-z)

Character	Unicode	HTML Code	HTML Number	Unicode Table

LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S
ß	U+00DF	ß	ß	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH GRAVE
à	U+00E0	à	à	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH ACUTE
á	U+00E1	á	á	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX
â	U+00E2	â	â	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH TILDE
ã	U+00E3	ã	ã	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS
ä	U+00E4	ä	ä	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE
å	U+00E5	å	å	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER AE
æ	U+00E6	æ	æ	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH CEDILLA
ç	U+00E7	ç	ç	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH GRAVE
è	U+00E8	è	è	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE
é	U+00E9	é	é	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH CIRCUMFLEX
ê	U+00EA	ê	ê	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH DIAERESIS
ë	U+00EB	ë	ë	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH GRAVE
ì	U+00EC	ì	ì	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH ACUTE
í	U+00ED	í	í	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH CIRCUMFLEX
î	U+00EE	î	î	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH DIAERESIS
ï	U+00EF	ï	ï	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER ETH
ð	U+00F0	ð	ð	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH TILDE
ñ	U+00F1	ñ	ñ	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH GRAVE
ò	U+00F2	ò	ò	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH ACUTE
ó	U+00F3	ó	ó	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH CIRCUMFLEX
ô	U+00F4	ô	ô	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH TILDE
õ	U+00F5	õ	õ	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS
ö	U+00F6	ö	ö	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH STROKE
ø	U+00F8	ø	ø	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH GRAVE
ù	U+00F9	ù	ù	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH ACUTE
ú	U+00FA	ú	ú	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH CIRCUMFLEX
û	U+00FB	û	û	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH DIAERESIS
ü	U+00FC	ü	ü	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH ACUTE
ý	U+00FD	ý	ý	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER THORN
þ	U+00FE	þ	þ	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH DIAERESIS
ÿ	U+00FF	ÿ	ÿ	Latin-1 Supplement

LATIN SMALL LIGATURE OE
œ	U+0153	&oelig;	œ	Latin Extended-A

IDN domains don't permit to mix different Scripts or character sets (for example, Latin, Greek or Cyrillic).
But it's possible to use different character tables for a same script.
- The Latin Script permits the use of characters of Latin-1 supplement, Latin Extended-A, Latin Extended-B, etc.. tables.
- The Greek Script permits to combine characters of the Greek, Greek Extended, etc.. tables, doesn't permit combine them with the normal latin characters (a-z), but permits the use of numbers or hyphens.
- Other script types have their own corresponding tables.

Residency requirements

This extension doesn't have any residency requirements.

Technical requirements

This extension doesn't have any technical requirements.

Registrations

.be domain registrations are immediate.

Transfers

The expiration date changes but a new year isn't added. The new expiration date will be created adding a year to the transfer completion date.

Renewals

You can renew your .BE domain at any moment, this process can take between 20 and 30 minutes to complete.

Cancellations

It's possible to ask for the cancellation of your .BE domain, you'll have to do it opening a ticket (support area). Please note the domain cancellation involves no refund of the domain registration fee.

DNS modifications

DNS modification is immediate, please note they must propagate through the network, this process can take up to 6-12 hours to complete, until then the domain will still point to the previous DNS servers.

DNSSEC

We allow the usage of DNSSEC on .be domains, thanks to it your domain will be able to take advantage of an additional security layer that DNS servers that are compatible with this tecnology can provide.
You can obtain more information at: What is DNSSEC and how does it work

Domain owner change

.BE domains permit owner changes, after the modification DNS.be will contact the previous owner by e-mail to accept the change, in case he doesn't accept it after 14 days the owner change will be cancelled.

Once the change completes the domain will be renewed for one year from the same date, that's why the .BE owner changes have cost (the same as the domain renewal).