About .ws Domains

Global Domains International is the sponsor and KeySystems is our backend provider for the country-code top-level domain name (ccTLD) .ws extensions that represents Western Samoa.

Who can register .ws domains?

Anyone can register .ws domain names.

Registration restrictions

• Must use: 3 – 63 Characters
• Can use: Letters: a-z, Numbers: 0-9, Hyphens (except in the 1st or last characters of the domain name)
• Cannot use: Special Characters (e.g.,& and #)
• IDNs: Supported

Features

• Registration length: 1-10 years
• Renewal length: 1-10 years
  • We attempt auto-renewal on the domain name’s expiration date. If the renewal attempt fails, we re-attempt renewal five days later, and we make a final attempt seven days after that.
  • If we cannot auto-renew the domain name and you do not manually renew it by the 12th day after its expiration date, you can attempt to recover it, and there might be a fee to do so. See Renew my expired domain for more information.
  • For example: Your .ws domain name expires on October 10. For automatic renewals, we attempt to renew the domain name on October 10, October 15, and October 22. If we cannot auto-renew the domain name and you do not manually renew it by October 29, you can attempt to recover it.
• Backorders: Not supported
• Transfers to ELITE WEB Co.: Supported
  • To successfully transfer a .ws domain name to us, your current registrar must support .ws transfers out.
  • We currently do not support the transfer in of .ws emoji domains.
• Transfers away from ELITE WEB Co.: Supported
  • Transfer Lock: Supported
  • To transfer away from us, your new registrar must explicitly support .ws transfers in.
• Transfers to another ELITE WEB Co. account: Supported
• Basic privacy protection: Supported
• Protection plan upgrades: Supported
• Cash Parking: Supported
• Contact Updates: Supported
• Must use: 2-13 authoritive nameservers
• Can use: IPv4, IPv6, DNSSEC
• Want to register a .ws domain? Search for your domain today.
• Check out our most common domain articles to get started with your .ws domain.