All .nl domain names are registered with SIDN, the .nl registry, via the Domain Registration System (DRS). On 17 March 2010, SIDN is launching a new version of the DRS.
By and large, the new system’s introduction will only affect SIDN’s registrars (the service providers that arrange .nl registrations). However, certain changes are being made, which the registrants of .nl domain names will notice as well. The changes in question are intended to make things more straightforward for registrants and to provide better protection.
When the new system comes in, it will no longer be necessary to send a signed form to your registrar when making certain important changes to your registration. So there will be no paperwork if you want to change your registrar, for example, or if you want to hand your domain name over to someone else or cancel your registration. Making such changes will therefore be quicker and more straightforward.
Changing registrars
The main change coming in with the new registration system involves the way you go about changing the registrar that looks after your registration. Changing registrars is also referred to as transferring or relocating your domain name .
As things stand, if you want to change your registrar, you start by choosing a new registrar. Then you tell your existing registrar that you want to move your domain name to the new registrar. Your new registrar will give you a relocation form, which you have to complete and return. Then you have to agree a new registration contract with SIDN. Finally, SIDN gets in touch with you and both registrars to confirm that a relocation request has been received.
How things will work in future
From 17 March, SIDN will assign a token to every .nl domain name. A token is an authorisation code consisting of a random series of characters linked to a domain name, which is used to validate a transfer request.
If you decide to change your registrar, you start by asking your existing registrar for your name’s token. You then give the token to the registrar that you want to switch to, and you ask that registrar to arrange the transfer. Next, your new registrar sends a transfer request to SIDN and validates it with the token. In response, SIDN e-mails you and the two registrars to say that a transfer has been set up. The transfer goes through after a maximum of five days.
In the five days after the transfer has been set up, the new registrar can cancel the transfer, or the old registrar can approve it. If the old registrar approves the transfer, it goes ahead straight away.
For more details check out www.sidn.nl
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