The official registry of the country-code Top-Level-Domain of The Republic of Somalia, .SO, recently announced an extension of their Sunrise registration period, thus pushing back the regular launch dates of .SO.
Landrush & Landrush Auction Info:
- Landrush Period: January 10, 2011 - February 28, 2011
- Domains with multiple Landrush applications go to auction
- Landrush Auction Period: Open as of March 14, 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: 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)
For Landrush and Go-Live, on January 10, 2011 through February 28, 2011 (and Go Live as of March 23, 2011) 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.
For more details on the .SO Launch please visit.
* The GROSS price includes Germany's 19% VAT; many resellers pay the lower NET price without VAT.