.VC Domain Name Rules/Requirements

Domain Name related Rules

Common Domain Name Rules ^{(Anchor: common)}

• BlueHost China provides 2nd Level Domain Registration, under .VC.

• Domain Theft Protection feature is supported for .VC domain names.

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  Protecting a Domain Name

• For Resellers: Both Lock and Suspension features are supported for .VC domain names.

  Bulk Lock / Unlock and Bulk Suspend / Unsuspend features are also supported for .VC domain names.

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  Locking a Domain Name

  Suspending a Domain Name

  Bulk Lock/Unlock

  Bulk Suspend/Unsuspend

• Move (push) feature is supported for .VC domain names.

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  Moving or Pushing a Domain Name from a Customer Control Panel to Another

• If for any reason you need to Delete your domain name, contact our Support Team at https://cn.bluehost.com/create-ticket.

• Upon deletion, a .VC domain name enters Redemption Grace Period.

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  What is Redemption Grace Period?

Domain Name Registration ^{(Anchor: reg)}

• A .VC domain name may be Registered for 1 to 10 years.

• A .VC domain name has a 4 day Money Back Grace Period.

• The Bulk Registration feature is available for .VC domain names.

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  Bulk Registration

• Upon Registering a .VC domain name, you may not Transfer-Away from BlueHost China, until 60 days.

• .VC domain names do not support Internationalized Domain Names (IDN).

Domain Name Renewal ^{(Anchor: ren)}

• A .VC domain name may be Renewed for 1 to 10 years.

• Upon Expiry of a .VC domain name:

  • any service such as email, website, etc., configured for this domain name would stop functioning, until the domain name is Renewed.

  • if the .VC domain name is not Renewed until 40 days, the domain name would get Deleted and would slip into Redemption Grace Period.

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    What is Redemption Grace Period?

Domain Name Transfer ^{(Anchor: trf)}

• Upon Transferring a .VC domain name, the domain name gets renewed by 1 year.

• .VC domain names have a 60-Day Transfer Lock placed on them, after they are Transferred.

• All .VC domain names have a Domain (Transfer) Secret Key/Authorization Code.

  The length of a Domain (Transfer) Secret Key/Authorization Code may vary between 6 to 16 characters.

• The Bulk Transfer feature is available for .VC domain names.

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  Bulk Transfer

Contact Details related Rules ^{(Anchor: contact)}

• .VC domain names are available for registration to any individual.

• .VC domain names use the General Contact database in the system.

  .VC domain names use the following 4 Contacts:

  • Registrant Contact

  • Administrative Contact

  • Technical Contact

  • Billing Contact

• .VC Contacts do not support accented characters.

• .VC domain names support BlueHost China's Privacy Protection feature.

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  What is Privacy Protection?

• The Bulk Modify and Bulk Privacy Protection features are available for .VC domain names.

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  Bulk Modify

  Bulk Privacy Protection

Name Servers and Child Name Servers related Rules ^{(Anchor: ns)}

• Each .VC domain name needs to have at least 2 Name Servers and may have upto 13 Name Servers.

• There is no limitation on the number of Child Name Servers you may create.

• You may associate upto 13 IP Addresses per Child Name Server.

• You may associate IPv6 Address in Child Name Servers.

• You may modify both Name Servers as well as any Child Name Servers associated with your .VC domain name.

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  Changing Name Servers of a Domain Name

  Registering and Managing Child Name Servers