Country: | Iceland |
Continent: | Europe |
Location: | 64°7'N 21°55'W |
Area: | 103001 |
Time Zone: | UTC |
Please Note
FTLD: fullfilment TLDs are registered through a manual registration process that might involve documents, depending on respective registry regulations, and are therefore not automated for real-time registrations and real-time updates. Updates might cause additional costs. If you are interested to register a domain under .IS please contact our sales department
Zone Info
.IS is one of the official country code Top-Level-Domain of Iceland.
Zone Use
A .IS can be used and registered by anyone or any corporation.
Characters
- Minimum: 1
- Maximum: 63
- Letters and numbers
- Hyphens ("-"), however not at the beginning or directly in front of the TLD
- Supported chars á é ý ú í ó þ æ ö ð
IDN info
á é ý ú í ó þ æ ö ð
Restrictions
- Nameservers must be pre-configured and registed with ISNIC
- Following requirements for the nameserver are obliged.
- The nameservers must be registered with ISNIC.
- Nameservers must allow connection to UDP port 53, and to TCP port 53 as well (see RFC5966)
- SOA records must be correctly formatted:
- Master nameserver correctly named in the MNAME field.
- Working mailbox of responsible party in RNAME field.
- Times (refresh, retry and expire) according to RFC1912
- TTL for NS records not lower than 24 hours.
- Correct NS records. Properly registered in the appropriate zones, both forward and reverse. I.e. the nameserver's name must be included in the PTR record set for the nameserver's IP address.
- Following requirements for the nameserver are obliged.
- Zone check tool is available at https://www.isnic.is/en/host/test
- Min. 1 / Max. 13 nameservers