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Not in your own company name. Clause 5.1 requires the subscriber to be an organisation registered in the Norwegian Central Coordinating Register for Legal Entities, actually conducting business and holding a Norwegian postal address; clause 5.3 requires an individual to have a Norwegian national identity number. For an applicant based abroad the route is for a Norwegian registered entity to appear as subscriber — that is what a trustee service provides. The service carries a fee and the current amount is shown during the order.

The Applicant's declaration (egenerklæring). Under clause 15.1 the applicant warrants that, so far as they are aware, registration and use of the name infringes no registered or unregistered third-party right, is not contrary to Norwegian law, and does not unjustifiably suggest public administration or the exercise of public authority. The declaration is signed electronically and submitted through a registrar. Clause 12.1 treats a missing signed declaration as incorrect information, which is a ground for deleting the name.

Yes — the usual order cannot be reversed here. Clause 6.1 requires at least two nameservers to be specified, all of them correctly set up for the domain and functional at the moment Norid receives the application, and states that only fully delegated domains may be registered. If your zone file is not ready, the application is refused. Clause 6.3 grants the one flexibility that matters: you need not operate the nameservers yourself, so your hosting provider's servers are fine.

Up to 100 names directly under .no at any one time. Clause 5.2 adds five names under each geographic domain the organisation belongs to and five under each applicable category domain. For private individuals the ceiling is far lower: clause 5.4 allows five names directly under .no, five under priv.no and five under each relevant geographic domain. The measured distribution reflects this — 883,506 names spread across 341,587 distinct holders.

One year at a time. Clause 15.4 states that the subscription «lasts one year from the registration date and continues to run if the subscriber chooses to extend it»; multi-year registration is not offered in this zone. One warning belongs here because the policy states it plainly: under clause 18.1 Norid is not liable if your registrar fails to order the extension — even where you have already paid the registrar for it. Track the renewal date yourself.

Technically it is not a transfer but «end the old subscription, create a new one». Clause 11.2 sets three conditions: the new subscriber must meet the eligibility rules, the existing subscription must not have expired, and the outgoing subscriber must agree. Clause 11.3 adds a side effect worth knowing: the date of the new allocation becomes the new registration date, which restarts the three-year complaint deadline at the dispute committee. A change of registrar is a separate and much simpler operation.

Not on port 43. Norid's WHOIS output says so in its own header: the service exists to help resolve technical problems and «does not give any information about who the holder of a domain is». A query returns handles, the registrar, the technical contact, nameservers and the DNSSEC key digest. Holder information is available through the registry's web lookup service, and clause 16.2 varies the level of detail by holder type — organisation, sole proprietorship or private individual.

At the independent Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee; Norid runs the secretariat and implements the decisions. Clause 17.2 defines three complaint types: a third party or public body against a subscriber (deadline three years from registration), an applicant or subscriber against a Norid decision (deadline thirty calendar days), and Norid or the Norwegian Communications Authority against a subscriber (deadline three years). The committee rejects cases that are too complex, and the agreed venue is Trondheim District Court.