.hu domains

Hungary

.HU domains pertain to Hungary, created in year 1990, .hu domains have a lot of popularity among the inhabitants of the country, having already registered more than 620,000 domains.

The extension is managed by Nic.hu.

Rates and features

.hu

29,95 €

It's required for the domain's administrative contact to reside in Hungary.

Registration period extension

Action	Price/year	Periodes	Dominitis
Registration	29,95 €	2 year(s)	2 dominitis
Renewal	29,95 €	1 year(s)	2 dominitis
Transfer	29,95 €	1 year(s)	2 dominitis
Restore	70,00 €	Does not include renewal	-

Features
Domain length:	2 - 40 characters
Residency requirements / Membership:	It's required for the domain's administrative contact to reside in Hungary.
Transfer system:	The domains, once the transfer ends, extend they expiration date for one year

Regulations

.hu domain life cycle

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

Redemption Period

Permitted characters / IDN

.hu 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 .hu domains.

Permitted IDN character table for .hu 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 A WITH ACUTE
á	U+00E1	á	á	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE
é	U+00E9	é	é	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH ACUTE
í	U+00ED	í	í	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH ACUTE
ó	U+00F3	ó	ó	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS
ö	U+00F6	ö	ö	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH ACUTE
ú	U+00FA	ú	ú	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH DIAERESIS
ü	U+00FC	ü	ü	Latin-1 Supplement

LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH DOUBLE ACUTE
ő	U+0151	ő	Latin Extended-A
LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH DOUBLE ACUTE
ű	U+0171	ű	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

It's required for the domain's administrative contact to reside in Hungary.

Technical requirements

In order to complete the domain registration or a DNS change, the DNS servers must pass the Registry's technical requirements, this can be checked here: .HU TECHNICAL CHECK

Registrations

.hu domain registrations aren't immediate.

Average duration of the registration process: 14 days

Transfers

The domains, once the transfer ends, extend they expiration date for one year

Renewals

The renewal of .HU domains is different than with other extensions.

It's necessary to request the domain renewal at least 32 days before the domain expiration.

In case the renewal request is done after this date, the correct renewal is not guaranteed.

Cancellations

It's possible to ask for the cancellation of your .HU 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.