Frequently Asked Questions
What is domain DO?
Is there a fee to register a domain name for an organization?
Should the domain name be directly related to the physical location of the server (ie country)?
Can web space on an ISP have a domain name?
How long does it take for a domain name to be arranged once requested for?
Are domain names only granted to does already on the Internet?
What are the requirements for soliciting a domain name?
Are there any restrictions with respect to the nature of the domain name being requested?
How are requests approved?
1. What is domain DO?
Internet domain names are hierarchical, composed of character fields seperated by a "." character. Example: 11.22.33
The last field (.33 in the example above) is generally composed of two letters from the name of the country related to the domain name. The Dominican Republic's root domain name (the last field) is "DO."
Three world-wide organizations supervised by IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority). These organizations operate on a regional level, coordinating their operations with NIC's (Network Information Center) of their region. These organizations are:
InterNIC (Internet Network Information Center): administers domains in America, Africa and the Australian continent
APNIC (Asia Pacific Network Information Center) administers domains in Asia
RIPE-ncc (Investigation in Internet by European) administers domains in Europe
In Dominican Republic, PUCMM is the official NIC, delegated by InterNIC; thus any organization wishing to register in the domain DO must do so through PUCMM.
The penultimate field of the domain name (22) denotes the " type of institution ".
Generic types for the Dominican Republic are the following:
EDU General, nonformal education, institutions of investigation and/or of superior education
GOV Governmental agencies
COM Commercial organizations
ORG Non-profit organizations
SLD Health organizations
WEB Web service organizations
NET Internet Service Providers
MIL Military
ART Arts institutions
The field before the penultimate field of the domain name is the name, initials, or abreviation of the institution.
2. Is there a fee to register a domain name for an organization?
The tariff for the registry and maintenance for two years of any domian name is $USD 70.00 or $RD 1,750.00, and $USD 35.00 or $RD 875.00 per year for maintenance after the first two years of registration. To pay by bank transfer the following requirements must be followed: (1) aditional payment of $USD 10.00 for bank comission, (2) sending us the corresponding bank statement indicating for which domain name the payment was made. If these are not followed the domain will remain in a pending payment status. The payment must be made to the Pontificia Universidad Catolica Madre y Maestra - RSTA.
The tariff of annual maintenance covers the maintenance with an existing domain (and therefore previously registered), by the period of a natural year (of the 1 of January to the 31 of December).
The maintenance includes all those updates or modifications in the data of the domain that are necessary and which ask for in agreement with the norms and established procedures. These modifications can be for example: Change of the people of administrative, technical contact or of finances, change of supplier and changes in the data associated to an active domain.
The received contributions exclusively will be used for the maintenance, updates or improvements of the equipment in good condition.
One would be due to pay by the allocation of domains? To see official notice of press of the National Science Foundation http://www.isoc.org/adopsec/nsf-name-fees.html.
3. Should the domain name be directly related to the physical location of the server (ie country)?
No, the server can be located in any country of the world.
4. Can web space on an ISP have a domain name?
Yes, this may be done by allowing the ISP to take control of the pretinent queries, although the owner of the web space can do this directly.
5. How long does it take for a domain name to be arranged once requested for?
It averages one (1) working day.
6. Are domain names only granted to does already on the Internet?
Yes, at the moment it is a requirement. PUCMM will not register the domain names without the submittion of atleast two host names (and their ip addresses) that will be used for domain name resolution. http://www.thelist.com, provides a list of several Internet Service Providers (ISP) and their respective services.
7. What are the requirements for soliciting a domain name?
a.- One must be connected to the Internet.
b.- One must have at least two (2) DNS name servers (primary and secondary), they must be apart from one anothermoved away. (See RFC 920 for details)
c.- We advise that the organization get help from another organization if it cannot maintain a seconday name server.
d.- The primary name server, which will take the zone of delegated authority, must be traceroute-able and respond to pings from ns.nic.do.
8. Are there any restrictions with respect to the nature of the domain name being requested?
Yes, the domain name should not coincide with any of the already existing domains under the same organization type. The organization or applicant is responsible for the verifying that no tradename laws are being violated. See RFC 1591 ftp://rs.internic.net/policy/rfc1591.txt. The name of the domain should not, by anyway, be obscene or slanderous. The recommended maximum character length for a domain name should not exceed 26, including the 5 characters used to identify the Top Level Domain root of the country (do) as well as those of organization type (com, edu, sld, gov, thousands, org, Web, net).
The domain name must be characters from the set: A-z, a-z and 0-9. The only acceptable special character is the script (-) and cannot be the first or last character of the domain name. The minimum character length for domain names is 2 characters, but 5 characters is recommended.
9. How are requests approved?
As soon as information is received from submittion forms, it is checked for veracity. Then an expedient is made for the registration of technical, general and billing information, aswell as administrative and technical contacts.
Registration Process
Intrests
Brief description of organization and/or intention(s) of applicant.
Organization Types
Generic types of domains:
EDU Academic organizations (higher education and research centers), nonformal, primary education and secondary schools
GOV Governmental institutions
COM Commercial organizations
SLD Institutions of health
ORG Nongovernmental institutions
NET Internet service providers (ISP)
WEB Web development and services
MIL Military institutions
ART Arts institutions
For example: The domain for the Pontificia Universidad Catolica Madre y Maestra is "pucmm.edu.do", where edu is used since it is an educative institution.
Domain Names
This specifiies the name under which the organization will go by on the Internet; this name can be an abbreviation of the organization.
However, another institution may be trying to register that domain name at the same time. To evade conflict, one may supply three alternative names in the registration form.
For example, the domain name "UPS" could belong to The Polytechnical University of Santiago, but the company Universal Power Suply might want to register itself with the same name.
In order to avoid this conflict the company Universal Power Suply must define three alternatives, for example: "UNPS", "UPOWERS", or "POWERSUPLY".
Applicants should read the conditions for requesting domain name registration to be approved before selecting a domain name.
Administrative Contact
This person represents the organization, responds to any non-technical questions and knows the organization's plans.
Technical Contact
This person takes care of the technical aspects of DNS maintenance--maintaining the name servers and interacting with technical personnel of other domains to solve such problems.
NIC - Handle
The NIC Handle is a code, assigned by PUCMM, to those that are granted a domain name. This field should be filled if one knows one code, otherwise it may be left blank.