.hu domains
.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

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

Transfer not supported
Action | Price/year | Periodes | Dominitis |
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Registration | 49,95 € | 2 year(s) | 2 dominitis |
Renewal | 49,95 € | 1 year(s) | 2 dominitis |
Transfer | - | - | |
Restore | 70,00 € | Does not include renewal | - |
Features | |
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Domain length: | 2 - 40 characters |
Residency requirements / Membership: | It's required for the domain's administrative contact to reside in Hungary. |
Transfer system: | Transfer process isn't supported by the system. |
Extension rules .hu
.hu domain life cycle
45 days | ||||||
Domain registration
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Expiration date
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Deletion date
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Domain available | Domain active | Redemption period | Domain available |
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
Transfer process isn't supported by the system..
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 request a cancellation of your .HU domain, visit the support center to open a support ticket. Please note, cancelling a name does not provide a refund of any registration fees.
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.
Domain owner change
Unfortunately it's not possible to make ownership changes in this type of domain names.
Official documentation
In this section you will find links to official documentation of the extension.
- .HU don't have extra documentation.
This extension supports:
- IDN Characters
- DNS Modification
- Special DNS requirements
- Whois Privacy
- Transfer lock
Europe
- .de Germany 6,95 € / year
- .uk United Kingdom 7,95 € / year
- .co.uk United Kingdom 7,95 € / year
- .nl Netherlands 7,95 € / year
- .ru Russian Federation 11,95 € / year
- .it Italy 7,95 € / year
- .pl Poland 4,95 € / year
- .fr France 8,95 € / year
- .al Albania 61,95 € / year
- .com.al Albania 61,95 € / year
- .at Austria 10,95 € / year
- .ax 35,95 € / year
- .be Belgium 7,95 € / year
- .by Belarus 79,95 € / year
- .ch Switzerland 17,95 € / year
- .com.cy Cyprus 120,95 € / year
- .cz Czech Republic 12,95 € / year
- .dk Denmark 14,95 € / year
- .ee Estonia 59,95 € / year
- .com.ee Estonia 59,95 € / year
- .es Spain 6,95 € / year
- .com.es Spain 2,95 € / year
- .nom.es Spain 2,95 € / year
- .org.es Spain 2,95 € / year
- .eu European Union 6,95 € / year
- .fi Finland 12,95 € / year
- .fo Faroe Islands 79,95 € / year
- .gg Guernsey 89,95 € / year
- .co.gg Guernsey 72,95 € / year
- .net.gg Guernsey 72,95 € / year
- .org.gg Guernsey 72,95 € / year
- .com.gi Gibraltar 99,95 € / year
- .gl Greenland 42,95 € / year
- .co.gl Greenland 42,95 € / year
- .com.gl Greenland 42,95 € / year
- .net.gl Greenland 42,95 € / year
- .org.gl Greenland 42,95 € / year
- .gr Greece 9,95 € / year
- .com.gr Greece 9,95 € / year
- .edu.gr Greece 9,95 € / year
- .net.gr Greece 9,95 € / year
- .org.gr Greece 9,95 € / year
- .hr Croatia 73,95 € / year
- .com.hr Croatia 9,95 € / year
- .ie Ireland 19,95 € / year
- .im Isle of Man 17,95 € / year
- .co.im Isle of Man 17,95 € / year
- .com.im Isle of Man 17,95 € / year
- .net.im Isle of Man 17,95 € / year
- .org.im Isle of Man 17,95 € / year
- .is Iceland 55,95 € / year
- .je Jersey 92,95 € / year
- .co.je Jersey 92,95 € / year
- .li Liechtenstein 17,95 € / year
- .lt Lithuania 10,95 € / year
- .lu Luxembourg 15,95 € / year
- .lv Latvia 12,95 € / year
- .com.lv Latvia 12,95 € / year
- .md Moldova, Republic of 149,95 € / year
- .me Montenegro 13,95 € / year
- .mk Macedonia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of 19,95 € / year
- .com.mk Macedonia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of 29,95 € / year
- .net.mk Macedonia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of 29,95 € / year
- .no Norway 9,95 € / year
- .biz.pl Poland 4,95 € / year
- .com.pl Poland 4,95 € / year
- .edu.pl Poland 4,95 € / year
- .info.pl Poland 4,95 € / year
- .net.pl Poland 4,95 € / year
- .nom.pl Poland 4,95 € / year
- .org.pl Poland 4,95 € / year
- .shop.pl Poland 4,95 € / year
- .waw.pl Poland 4,95 € / year
- .pt Portugal 13,95 € / year
- .com.pt Portugal 13,95 € / year
- .ro Romania 10,95 € / year
- .com.ro Romania 10,95 € / year
- .rs Serbia 110,95 € / year
- .co.rs Serbia 89,95 € / year
- .org.rs Serbia 89,95 € / year
- .com.ru Russian Federation 14,95 € / year
- .se Sweden 13,95 € / year
- .si Slovenia 11,95 € / year
- .sk Slovakia 29,95 € / year
- .com.ua Ukraine 30,95 € / year
- .me.uk United Kingdom 7,95 € / year
- .org.uk United Kingdom 7,95 € / year