Netherlands (.nl):
NL Dutch International Domain Registration
All our Dutch domain name prices include the maintenance & all other 3rd party fees during the registration period. There are no other costs involved when registering Dutch domain names, no transfer fees and no hidden costs.
Registration:
To register your Dutch domain name, click here!
Restrictions: Dutch domain name registration, Registrants must provide contact address in Netherlands
Notes: Don't nl put "www" or the Dutch domain name type, ie. "nl", Thus for "www.101domains.nl" enter "101domains" and no more.
Please remember that Dutch domain names can only contain the following letters: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z - 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9, Spaces are NOT ALLOWED.
.nl is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the Netherlands.
Registrations are processed via a network of participants. It is one of the more popular ccTLD's, ranked 4th in the quarterly VeriSign Domain Name Industry Brief of June 2008, after .de, .cn and .uk.
It was the first ccTLD ever to be registered. The authority for the .nl domain was handed over to Piet Beertema of the Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica in 1986.
Since January 31, 1996 .nl domains are registered by the Stichting Internet Domeinregistratie Nederland (SIDN). Registrants have to pay the SIDN a fee for each domain since April 1, 1996, until then registration was free. In the early days, most of the registrants were universities and research departments of large companies, such as Philips Research.
SIDN is responsible for the development and the functional stability of the .nl domain space. As well as allocating and registering .nl domain names, the organization also enables users at international level to use these labels at any moment.
SIDN's register now contains more than three million .nl domain names, which are the subject of almost one million successful searches a day. In consequence, SIDN is a key player in the global Internet community. The organisation's services are provided to the public through a network of two thousand independent commercial Internet service providers.
Individuals are allowed to register a second-level .nl domain since 2003. As a forerunner, individuals were allowed to register a third-level domain since 2000. Such 'personal domains' had the form of janjansen.123.nl. They never became popular, andregistration has been suspended since 2006. Because there are only around 500 of such domains registered, in contrast to about 2 million second-level domains, SIDN announced the discontinuance of personal domains as of 2008 on July 4th, 2007. Owners of such domains will be contacted by SIDN and offered a small fee if they cooperate. Since 2009 applications to establish new top-level domains (TLDs) can be made. This means that, in principle, any business or other organization can have its own Internet extension, such as .ajax or .amstel.
ICANN, the international organisation that coordinates the Internets addressing system, wants to open up the root zone in order to encourage competition on the Internet and enable new players to enter the market. The 2009 application round follows similar exercises in 2000 and 2004, when new TLDs such as .biz, .aero, .cat, .jobs, .museum, .name, .pro, .biz, .coop, .tel, .mobi, and .travel were introduced.
A survey by SIDN showed that at least 62% of all .nl domains have a website.
