According to the Norwegian domain name policy, only companies registered in the Norwegian Register of Legal Entities may register .no domain names. For foreign companies, the most common solution for fulfilling local presence requirements is to register a Norwegian branch office.
While the Norwegian domain name policy was recently relaxed to allow each registrant to hold up to 100 .no domain names, Norid, the Norwegian ccTLD (.no) registry, is now preparing a major Spring clean of its database to delete domain names that are registered to companies that no longer exist.
Domain name holders no longer registered in the Register of Legal Entities will this Spring receive notifications that their domain names will be deleted and advising them to contact their registrars to transfer the relevant domain names to an eligible holder.
Notifications will be sent both via e-mail and letter (air mail) to the registered holders. E-mails will be sent to the e-mail addresses recorded for the company and the recorded legal contact for each domain name. The letter will be sent to the recorded address of the legal contact. As long as the recorded addresses are still in use and notifications are received, registrants will still have the possibility to maintain domain names by transferring them to an eligible holder within 90 days of receipt. However, registrants that do not have updated addresses at Norid should be aware and make sure to update their contact details and transfer domain name registrations to an eligible registrant.
The domain name holder will be given a term of 60 days, during which the domain name will remain active, plus a quarantine period of 30 days after the domain has been removed from the DNS, to transfer the domain name to an existing and registered company. If the domain name has not been transferred during this period of 90 days, the domain name registration will be deleted.
It is expected that Norid will issue some 22,000 notifications affecting some 35,000 domain names. Because of the large volume, notifications will be sent in batches of 2,000 per week.
If you receive such e-mail from Norid, we recommend that you contact your domain name service provider or local counsel as soon as possible.
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