.SO Go Live - Mark the Date

In less than 2 weeks, .SO will "Go Live" for general availability. Place your pre-registrations now or you may miss out on the .SO domains you want.

Go-Live Info:

Go-Live Date: April 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)

HEXONET will attempt to withdraw the total cost of all your .SO Pre-registrations from your reseller account for "Go Live" on March 23, 2011. 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 Go-Live launch date. Kindly ensure you have sufficient funds in your account.

Please note, that for Go-Live, 24 hours prior to the actual launch, HEXONET will stop accepting Pre-registrations completely . 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_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.