.tw domains

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’95
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Asia: Taiwan, Province of China

Registration of .tw domains (Taiwan) is open and doesn't have residence restrictions, they can be registered by any private person or company, whatever their country of residence is.

The extension is managed by the Taiwan Network Information Center since year 1989 and is a very popular extension in Taiwan.

.tw domain rates and features

Domain rates .tw

Action Periodes Price
Registration 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 year(s) 19,95 €
Renewal 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 year(s) 19,95 €
Transfer 1 year(s) 19,95 €

Features

  • Domain length between 2 and 63 characters
  • IDN characters are permitted
  • Allows DNS modification
  • DNSSEC
  • Whois Privacy
  • The domains, once the transfer ends, extend they expiration date for one year
  • Possibility to block transfers

.tw domain life cycle

Domain available
Domain registration
Domain active
Expiration date
33 days
Redemption period
5 days
Pending delete
Deletion date
Domain available

.tw domain regulations

Residency requirements

This extension doesn't have any residency requirements.

Technical requirements

This extension doesn't have any technical requirements.

Registrations

.tw domain registrations are immediate.

Transfers

To complete .TW domain transfer, you'll need your current registrar to provide you the domain's AuthCode or EPP-Key to verify the ownership of the domain.

Transfers can take between 5 and 7 days to complete. Some registrars provide manual transfers allowing transfers to be completed on the same day, contact your current registrar to find out if they offer this service.

More information about .TW domain transfers.

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

Renewals

Renewing your .TW domain only takes a minute and can completed at any time.

Cancellations

It's possible to ask for the cancellation of your .TW 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 .tw domains. Your domain can take advantage of this additional security layer that DNS servers that are compatible with this technology can provide.
More information is available at: DNSSEC: What is it and how does it work.

Domain owner change

.TW domains permit automatic owner changes, you'll be able to change this data from your client area.

Permitted characters / IDN

.tw 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 .tw domains.

Permitted IDN character table for .tw domains

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

Unicode Script Hyphen (-) Digits (0-9) Characters (a-z)
Traditional Chinese Yes Yes Yes
French Yes Yes Yes
German Yes Yes Yes
Thai Yes Yes Yes
Japanese Yes Yes Yes
Korean Yes Yes Yes

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.

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