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You should be comfortable with your domain name selection. A request to change your domain name after the account has been activated is subject to another set up fee. Our set up fee is separate from the InterNIC's domain registration fee. The InterNIC will charge the registering company or individual (called "Registrant") to register a domain name. An initial payment which covers the first two years is always required; thereafter the InterNIC will charge on ann annual basis. As a courtesy to our customers, Sun Coast Web^SM can bill you for the InterNIC's fees.

Valid Domain Names

26 character maximum including the 4 characters used to identify the top-level domain such as .COM, .NET, .ORG, .EDU, .GOV
may contain letters, digits, and ONE dash ("-")
cannot begin or end with a dash

Selecting Top-Level Domains

Please note that the InterNIC makes the following top-level domain reservations:

COM - commercial entities (or individual usage)
EDU - 4 year colleges and universities
NET - internet providers
ORG - registered non-profit organizations

If you wish to register a top-level domain other than a COM domain, the InterNIC may require explanation as to why the domain meets the criteria outlined below. If you are not prepared to provide information which substantiates your request, you may need to register a COM domain.

Sun Coast Web^SM can also serve non-US domains, but registration must be handled by the end user.
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Criteria for Top-Level Domains

The following is an extract from RFC1591 listing top-level domains.

   World Wide Generic Domains:

   COM - This domain is intended for commercial entities, that is
         companies.  This domain has grown very large and there is
         concern about the administrative load and system 
         performance if the current growth pattern is continued.  
         Consideration is being taken to subdivide the COM domain 
         and only allow future commercial registrations in the 
         subdomains.

   EDU - This domain was originally intended for all educational
         institutions.  Many Universities, colleges, schools,
         educational service organizations, and educational 
         consortia have registered here.  More recently a decision 
         has been taken to limit further registrations to 4 year 
         colleges and universities.  Schools and 2-year colleges 
         will be registered in the country domains (see US Domain, 
         especially K12 and CC, as seen below).

   NET - This domain is intended to hold only the computers of 
         network providers, that is the NIC and NOC computers, the
         administrative computers, and the network node computers.  
         The customers of the network provider would have domain 
         names of their own (not in the NET TLD).

   ORG - This domain is intended as the miscellaneous TLD for
         organizations that didn't fit anywhere else.  Some non-
         government organizations may fit here.

   United States Only Generic Domains:

   GOV - This domain was originally intended for any kind of 
         government office or agency.  More recently a decision was 
         taken to register only agencies of the US Federal 
         government in this domain.  State and local agencies are 
         registered in the country domains (see ".US" Domain, 
         below).

   MIL - This domain is used by the US military.

   Example country code Domain: (must be registered by end user)

   US  - As an example of a country domain, the US domain provides 
         for the registration of all kinds of entities in the United 
         States on the basis of political geography, that is, a 
         hierarchy of <entity-name>.<locality>.<state-code>.US. 
         For example, "IBM.Armonk.NY.US".  In addition, branches of 
the 
         US domain are provided within each state for schools 
         (K12), community colleges (CC), technical schools (TEC), 
         state government agencies (STATE), councils of governments 
         (COG), libraries (LIB), museums (MUS), and several other 
         generic types of entities (see RFC 1480 for details [1]).

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