Instra has developed a special high-end package of services tailored to meet the needs and expectations of the worlds most successful and therefore demanding companies. For most domains all we need is a name and address, phone and fax, and an email address to register the name to. In national Top Level Domains we often need to collect copies of your business registration papers, trademark, etc. Return to top 4. The name cannot start or end with - and there is a maximum length of around 80 characters although we advise that it should be between 3 and 12 characters for ease of use.
Different domains have stricter restrictions on the length of names.
Each country also has its own rules and the Instra staff will be able to advise you on these. In the national Top Level Domains there is a small but rapidly growing amount of rulings being handed down in disputes over registrations of names under nTLDs and even gTLDs. Some countries, such as Germany and the United Kingdom, have laws which strongly favor holders of trademarks, especially a national trademark in the country in question. If your domain name is registered to another party you have little recourse save legal action to recover the name. Return to top 5.