NO / EN

Norid AS

Abels gt. 5, Teknobyen

Phone +47 73 55 73 55

Is the domain name available?

What kind of name should I choose?

It’s a good idea to choose a domain name that is both easy to remember and easy to market. It could be the name of your business, a product name, a trademark or the name of a project.

Private individuals can also choose to go with their name, but many also choose something entirely different: a name that means something to them personally, like the name of a pet, a name from the area where they live, or the name of a club or association.

How many domain names can you have?

Organizations

Organizations can subscribe to up to 100 domain names per organization number.

Private individuals

You can subscribe to up to 5 domain names as a private individual.

If you have reached your limit and want to subscribe to additional domain names, you need to delete an old domain name subscription before you can register a new.

Read more about your subscription options

Which characters can you use in a domain name?

The domain name must consist of no less than 2 and no more than 63 characters. The name can include

  • letters from a to z
  • Norwegian special characters, see list
  • numbers from 0 to 9
  • hyphen, but the domain name cannot start or end with a hyphen

Using æ, ø, å and other Norwegian special characters

You can use Norwegian special characters in a domain name. The term Norwegian special characters includes all characters used to correctly spell words in the official Norwegian languages: bokmål, nynorsk, Northern Sami, Southern Sami and Lule Sami. There are 24 such special characters, of which æ, ø and å are the most common.

Please be aware that many e-mail clients do not support the use of special characters in e-mail addresses. Special characters can also be a drawback if you are going to be communicating with people outside Norway, as they often cannot find these characters on their keyboard. It can therefore be a good idea to have two versions of the same domain name, one with the correct Norwegian spelling and one with an international spelling format (a for å, o for ø, etc.).

List of Norwegian special characters

Starting your own business?

If you have plans to start your own business, we recommend the look-up service navnesok.no. This service lets you search the domain name register, the Central Coordinating Register for Legal Entities and the trademark register in a single search.

Read more about getting a domain name subscription when starting your own business

Published: 2 April 2019
Updated: 16 September 2021