Incoming modifications for.LU registrations
Jeudi 7 janvier2010The RESTENA foundation, which manages the Luxembourg ccTLD (.LU) has announced several update of their policies. This decision could widely increase the number of .LU domains (there were 47,797 on December 31 2009).
First of all, from February 1st 2010, it will be possible to register .LU Internationalized Domain Names (IDN). It will be possible to registrer a domain name with the following characters:
ä - ö - ü - à - â - æ - ç - è - é - ê - ë - î - ï - ô - ù - û - œ
A two month sunrise period will occur in order to protect former .LU domain names holders against cybersquatting. Indeed, until april 1st 2010, only .LU domain names holder’s will be able to register the equivalent of their domain name in IDN. It is quite original that a sunrise period does not protect Trademark holders, but former domain name holders. With that kind of sunrise, a cybersquatter with the good ASCII domain name will have the priority on a Trade Mark owner… Anyway, after that sunrise period, registrations will be performed on the « first-come, first-served » basis.
In order to assure yourself a .LU IDN, you can already register the non-IDN equivalent of that domain name. It will allow you to be part of the sunrise period.
The following table shows the complete list of accepted equivalence during the sunrise period:
| ASCII character | IDN Equivalent |
| a | à, â, ä |
| c | ç |
| e | é, è, ê, ë |
| i | î, ï |
| o | ô, ö |
| u | ù, û, ü |
| ae | æ, ä |
| oe | œ, ö |
| ue | ü |
Another big change that will happen on February 1st 2010 is the end of the local administrative contact requirement. Nowadays, you need a local contact to register a .LU domain name. But from February 1st 2010, the .LU will be completely open. Anyone from any country will be able to register a .LU domain name without any requirement.
Of course, if you wish register a .LU domain name before the plausible opening rush, you can already do it by using IP Twins local administrative contact.
Adrien Palumbo



