The .MUSIC registry has released significant updates to its Registrar Requirements Policy and Registrant Eligibility Policy, reinforcing its commitment to identity verification, community integrity, and abuse prevention.
Realtime Register has reviewed these changes and is actively ensuring alignment with the updated rules to maintain compliance and protect your customers.
Key policy changes at a glance
1. Registrar Requirements Policy
Expanded abusive behavior definitions
Practices like frontrunning, withholding transfer codes, or monetizing expiring domains without consent are now explicitly prohibited.
New notification requirements
You must clearly notify registrants before and after registration that:
- Identity verification via government-issued ID is mandatory; …
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SIDN will migrate to a new backend in March 2026, and from that moment all .NL domains must use annual periods exclusively.
Monthly and quarterly periods will be phased out entirely.
Required actions:
- Stop quarterly registrations as soon as possible. Use yearly periods only starting May 1, 2025.
- Convert incoming transfers directly to yearly periods.
- Gradually convert existing domains to yearly periods in the period April 2025 - March 2026.
Benefits(per SIDN):
- Cost-effective: Yearly periods save money over the long term.
- Less administration: Easier management with yearly periods.
- International standard: Aligns .NL with global registration …
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There seems to be some confusion about NIS-2. Some registrars, like Openprovider, are already implementing Article 28 of the directive even though it hasn't been transposed into member state law.
What is Article 28 again?
Article 28 requires entities that offer domain name registration such as the registries, the registrar (us), and you, to verify and validate domain name registrants.
We will most likely need to confirm whether the registrant's email address is responsive, similar to the ICANN validation and verification process for gTLD domains since 2013.
Article 28 does not differentiate between ccTLDs and gTLDs.
Realtime Register is a …
How to be compliant and prevent cybercrime at the same time?
In the domain registration industry, balancing regulatory compliance with robust security measures is essential. As an ICANN accredited registrar, Realtime Register has implemented a system that meets the ICANN RAA 2013 requirements for verification of registrant data and strengthens defences against cybercrime as required by the NIS-2 at the same time.
ICANN 2013 RAA Email Validation Requirement
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) introduced the 2013 Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA), which mandates registrars to validate and verify specific WHOIS data fields, including email addresses. This process …
What is going on?
Since 2020, criminal groups from Vietnam have re-registered domain names and set up forwarding services for such domains to obtain social media credentials and more.
What is the size?
Our conservative estimate is that these criminals re-register around 50.000 domain names each week since 2020.
Why is it a problem?
They mostly use stolen credit cards to pay for these domain names, but we have witnessed other forms of payment fraud.
What is the impact on a reseller or registrar?
We have seen registrars and resellers incur massive financial losses.
Sometimes, we see resellers or registars …