CEMIT Ireland

To register your domain name, the registration agent will ask you for specific contact information. Make sure that the agent registers your domain name in either the name of your business or your own name. This will make you the domain name holder and will give you the authority to make subsequent changes to the registration.

Your registration agent will also be asked to state the administration, billing and technical details for the domain name. Your initial domain name registration - and any subsequent renewals - can be for any period up to ten years (in one year increments). Your registration will need to be renewed before your initial or subsequent renewals expire.

Protecting your domain name

If the domain name is registered in your name then you will be classed as the holder or registrant. This means that you have certain rights over the name for a specified period of time. The only circumstance where the rights can be taken away is if it is proven that somebody else has greater rights to the name.

As the registrant of a domain name you have:

• first rights on its renewal - so long as this is done within an agreed timescale
• the right to claim sole ownership - except if it is challenged by recognised dispute resolution procedures or court action