Pre-register Your .SO Domains Early!
dotSO is the Country Code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) for The Republic of Somalia. With this ccTLD being re-delegated to The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (MoPT) in April of 2009, the .SO registry has since been preparing for its worldwide release on March 1, 2011. Since pre-registrations opened at HEXONET on October 1, 2010, a steady volume of pre-registrations have already been accepted.
Landrush & Landrush Auction Info:
- Landrush Period: December 16, 2010 - February 9th, 2011
- Domains with multiple Landrush applications go to auction
- Landrush Auction Period: February 10th - February 28th, 2011
- Acceptable Characters: Min. 3, Max. 63, letters, numbers, and hyphens ("-") - however hyphens at the beginning or directly in front of the TLD will not be accepted
- Registration Periods: 1 - 10 Years
- Domain Name Registration Policies: View
- Landrush Pricing: $19.04 (net: 16.00) USD per Domain/Year for ALL PRICE CLASSES
Go-Live Info:
- Go-Live: March 1, 2011
- Allocated on a First-come-First-Served basis
- Characters: Min. 3, Max. 63, letters, numbers, hyphens ("-") - however hyphens at the beginning or directly in front of the TLD will not be accepted
- Registration Periods: 1 - 10 Years
- Domain Name Registration Policies: View
- Go-Live Pricing:
- Reseller: $19.04 (net: 16.00) USD per Domain/Year
- Premium: $17.37 (net: 14.60) USD per Domain/Year
- Platinum: $15.11 (net: 12.70) USD per Domain/Year
Pre-registration Billing: (IMPORTANT)
For Landrush and Go-Live, on December 16, 2010 and February 14, 2011 respectively, HEXONET will attempt to withdraw the total cost of all your .SO Pre-registrations from your reseller account. This deduction is only to reserve funds in case all your Pre-registrations are successful. Reserved funds will be returned back to your account if any Pre-registrations are not successful or if you delete a Pre-registration 24 hours prior to the respective Landrush or Go-Live launch date.
Please note, that for Go-Live only, 24 hours prior to the actual launch, HEXONET will stop accepting Pre-registrations altogether. Additional domain requests will be queued up and submitted to the registry once our main batch-queue has been submitted successfully. As always, if any Pre-registrations should fail, refunds will automatically be applied to your reseller account.
Pre-registration via API
command = AddDomainApplication
class = SO_LANDRUSH | SO_GOLIVE
domain = example.so
period = 1Y | 2Y | 3Y | 4Y | 5Y | 6Y | 7Y | 8Y | 9Y | 10Y
ownercontact0 = (CONTACT)
admincontact0 = (CONTACT)
techcontact0 = (CONTACT)
billingcontact0 = (CONTACT)
nameserver0 = (NAMESERVER)
nameserver1 = (NAMESERVER)
nameserver2 = (NAMESERVER)
Pre-registration via Control Panel
Pre-registrations can be submitted through the Control Panel by logging into your account and navigating to "Manage Products > Domains" and clicking the "Pre-reg Admin" link in the left side menu. From here one can list existing or submit new Pre-registrations. Users can modify or delete any Pre-registrations without charge up to 24 hours prior to the launch date.