.us domains

United States

The .US territorial domain is the United States domain extension, it was created year 1985. The registrants must be residents or entities with a presence in the U.S.

Actually there are 650,000 .US registered domains and they are managed by Neustar US.

Rates and features

.us

8,95 €

More information below

Registration period extension

Action	Price/year	Periodes	Dominitis
Registration	8,95 €	1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 year(s)	2 dominitis
Renewal	8,95 €	1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 year(s)	2 dominitis
Transfer	8,95 €	1 year(s)	2 dominitis
Restore	45,95 €	Does not include renewal	-

Features
Domain length:	3 - 63 characters
Residency requirements / Membership:	More information below
Transfer system:	The domains, once the transfer ends, extend they expiration date for one year

Regulations

.us domain life cycle

				42 days	30 days	5 days
	Domain registration		Expiration date				Deletion date
Domain available		Domain active		Renew grace period	Redemption period	Pending delete		Domain available

Renew Grace Period
Redemption Period
Pending Delete

Permitted characters

.us 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.

Residency requirements

When registering a .US domain, the registrant must meet one of the following "Nexus" categories:

Category 1

A natural person (i) who is a United States citizen, (ii) who is a permanent resident of the United States of America or any of its possessions or territories, or (iii) whose primary place of domicile is in the United States of America or any of its possessions

Category 2

A United States entity or organization that is (i) incorporated within one of the fifty (50) U.S. states, the District of Columbia, or any of the United States possessions or territories, or (ii) organized or otherwise constituted under the laws of a state of the United States of America, the District of Columbia or any of its possessions or territories (including a federal, state, or local government of the United States or a political subdivision thereof, and non-commercial organizations based in the United States).

Category 3

A foreign entity or organization that has a bona fide presence in the United States of America or any of its possessions or territories. It shall be a continuing requirement that all usTLD domain name Registrants remain in compliance with Nexus. To implement the Nexus requirement, NeuStar will:

Require that Registrars certify that they enforce the Nexus requirement upon their Registrants, and that Registrars require Registrants to certify tha t they meet the Nexus requirement.
Conduct a scan of selected registration request information.
Conduct “spot checks” on Registrant information.

Technical requirements

The DNS servers must be located in the U.S.

Registrations

.us domain registrations are immediate.

Transfers

To be able to complete .US domain transfers you'll need your current registrar to give you the domain's AuthCode or EPP-Key, with it you'll be able to verify your domain's ownership.

Transfers can take between 5 and 7 days to complete. Some registrars allow to accept transfers manually, contact your current registrar and find out if they offer this service, in this case the transfer will complete the same day.

More information about .US domain transfers

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

Renewals

You can renew your .US 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 .US 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 .us 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