European domains: Isle of Man (.im)

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Registration:

To register your Isle of Man domain, click here!

Is your domain name working hard enough?

Currently, whether you have registered a .com or a .co.uk domain there are no restrictions if you would like to register both versions of your domain name - and many people do!.

Of course, the choice is all a matter of your preference - .com is often regarded as "International" where the .co.uk domain is deemed to be "UK only", usually it depends on the target market.

Whilst, the .com domain is recognised world wide, it is easier to remember and to type, and there is a whole world full of people who could register it before you do!

If your target is primarily the UK market then registering just the .co.uk domain would seem to be the obvious choice. The .co.uk instantly identifies you as a UK company and often, given a list of URLs in a search engine, people will choose a domain / URL with their country code. Therefore, it follows that if you want to extend your target market then registering your domain with other country-code top-level domains (ccTLD) will expand your target audience.

Registering both .com and .co.uk (and others such as .at, .dk, .es, .eu, .ie, .it, .nz, .se etc) domain names in fact makes very good sense - it stops anyone else from registering your name and leaves it ready for you to use either right away or in the future. Did you know that with Web Forwarding you can have as many domain names as you like pointing to a single website - see Web Forwarding below.

Email Forwarding

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Catch All Email

Simply tell us 'one' address to have all your messages sent to and all of your emails will be forwarded to that address.

Web Forwarding

If you already have a website, start using your domain name without the additional cost of hosting. When a user enters your domain name into their browser, they'll be redirected to your existing website.

You can have many domain names forwarded to a single website.

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Background

It was in 1996 that the Isle of Man, once becoming totally separate from the United Kingdom as a self-governing country, was given the permission to use the '.im' National Top Level Domain (known as TLD) and was given responsibility. The registry for the .im ccTLD is Domicilium (IOM) Limited.

The registry responsibilities are:

• Keeping control, ownership and responsibility over the register to make sure everything goes smoothly
• Process the applications by those requesting domain names to register or renew.
• When a domain holder requests the change in the register or needs information about the .im domain name system, Domicilium must do so.
• Publish information so that domain name holders knew when they need to renew.

When choosing the name for the ccTLD .im, there are certain conditions that need to be followed:

• Characters from the Roman Alphabet (a-z) can be used.
• Digits (0-9) are allowed.
• The only specialised characters that can be used are hyphens (-). Since they are not yet offered by the IDN, the last or the first character cannot be a hyphen.
• The maximum amount of characters allowed in a .im domain name is 63, the minimum being. The only exception would be through a larger sum of money paid to get a name with one or two characters.

The second-level domains that are currently available are as follows:

• .im
• .plc.co.im
• .net.im
• .co.im
• .org.im
• .ac.im
• .ltd.co.im
• .com.im
• .gov.im

If any domain name isn't desired by the Government, they have the right to withdraw it within the first two working days.