.dk

.dk is the ccTLD for Denmark. It is managed by the Dansk Internet Forum.^[1]

History[edit | edit source]

The .dk ccTLD was registered and delegated to the root zone on July 14, 1987. ^[2]

In January 1997 the registration of .dk domain names was opened up to all registrants. Prior to this, registrations were restricted to legal institutions. Following this move, the number of registrations increased from 7,736 to 140,000 in less than 3 years.

In 1999, the Dansk Internet Forum (DIFO) took over the role of administering and established the wholly-owned subsidiary Punktum dk to manage the daily operation. Prior to this, registrations were limited to legal institution.

Historically, .dk domain names were transferred without a fee. In December 2018, Punktum dk announced that as of 1 January 2019 the registry would introduce a 50 DKK fee for all transfers, in order to cover administrative costs. Merging multiple user accounts into a single user id remained free.^[3] As of April 1, 2023, the yearly period fee and transfer fee is 70 DKK.^[4]

Rules and Restrictions[edit | edit source]

A .dk domain name can be registered by anyone.

Domain Name Suspension[edit | edit source]

Punktum dk may suspend a domain name if:

• there is an obvious risk that the spelling or typing errors of Internet users when they type an URL in an address bar are used to create confusion with a different almost identical domain name and thereby generate traffic on their own website;
• the Registrant of the domain name that is exploited in the case of confusion submits a notification;
• the domain name that is exploited in the case of confusion and the notified domain name are active in relation to the public, for example for the operation of a website;
• the notified domain name is registered at a later time than the notifier had his/her domain name registered;
• the Registrant of the notified domain name does not have relevant trademark rights or rights to names or other distinctive marks or any other technical reason to make use of the domain name, and;
• the Registrant of the notified domain name and/or a legal or natural person who is closely related to the Registrant has registered at least two other domain names with a corresponding obvious risk of confusion as mentioned above.^[5]

Characters[edit | edit source]

The following characters may be used when registering a .dk domain name:

• all Danish letters (incl. æ, ø and å);
• the letters ö, ä, ü, é and ß;
• numbers from 0 to 9;
• hyphen (-). However, a hyphen may not be the first or last character in the domain name.

A domain name cannot have two leading characters followed by two hyphens, e.g. a2--punktum.dk.^[6] .

References[edit | edit source]