Some domain names may be permanently or temporarily reserved or restricted for registry operations, as premium domain names or to comply with ICANN requirements.

To comply with ICANN requirements, all two-character domains shall be initially reserved, however, may be released in the future. In addition reserved names for a) International Olympic Committee, b) International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, and c) Intergovernmental Organizations, for new gTLDs., are not available in accordance with ICANN. The list of these names can be found here.

Any individual or business is eligible to register the .kaufen domain extension.

The domain registration time frame for .kaufen during general availability is Instant

If partner did not renew the domain name, it will be released for public re-registration approximately 75 days from the domain expiration date. Please note that domain re-registration is based on first-come, first serve basis.

Domain Names must:

• have minimum of 1 and a maximum of 63 characters;
• begin with a letter or a number and end with a letter or a number;
• use the English character set and may contain letters (i.e., a-z, A-Z), numbers (i.e. 0-9) and dashes (-) or a combination of these;
• neither begin with nor end with a dash;
• not contain a dash in the third and fourth positions (e.g. www.ab- -cd.kaufen); and
• not include a space (e.g. www.ab cd.kaufen).

Rightside Registry manages the registration of domain names with the .kaufen Top Level Domain.

You may visit them here: Rightside Registry .

The maximum domain period to register the .kaufen domain name extension is 5 years