.ws Domain
The .ws domain belongs to the group of country code top-level domains wsType and therefore has a unique geographical assignment to the country Western Samoa (WS).
| TLD | Type | continent | country |
| .ws | CCTLD | OCEANIA | 
Western Samoa (WS)
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Technical information
| property | value | Note |
| Character length | 1 - 63 | Domains dürfen maximal aus 63 Zeichen bestehen |
| Number domains | | |
| Special characters (IDN) | |
Supported character sets:
BIG5, EUC_JP, EUC_KR, ISCII, KOI8_R, KOI8_U, SHIFT_JIS, TIS_620, ISO_8859_7, ISO_8859_1 |
| DNSSEC | | |
| DNS check | | |
| Auth-Code | |
The auth-code is required for the transfer
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| Auth-Code 2 | | |
| Additional information | | |
| Premium Domains | | |
| Transfer confirmation | |
Transfer confirmation via the Admin-C contact
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| Status update | | |
| Restore | | |
| AutoDelete | | |
| Registry Lock | | |
Additional requirements
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Premium domains (short, memorable and general names) are more expensive in registration optionally also in renewal (e.g. car.tld).
Business transactions
| Type | Supported | Auth-Code | control |
| Create | | | Realtime
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| Update | | | Realtime
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| Deletion | | | Realtime
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| Transfer | | | Realtime
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| Restore | | | Manual order
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| tld.tasks.task.restoreNE | | | Realtime
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| tld.tasks.task.restoreARGP | | | Realtime
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| tld.tasks.task.renew | | | Realtime
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| tld.tasks.task.updateStatus | | | Realtime
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| Preack | | | Realtime
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Root nameserver
| # | Nameserver |
| 1 | a.dns.ws |
| 2 | ns2.dns.ws |
| 3 | ns5.dns.ws |
| 4 | s.dns.ws |
| 5 | us3.dns.ws |
| 6 | us4.dns.ws |
