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link-list__item--white"> <a class="link-list__link" href="https://www.sidn.nl/en/about-sidn/our-annual-reports"> <span class="link-list__icon"> <svg class="icon"> <use xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="https://www.sidn.nl/assets/3290feeb344ae12b083fc341fafe2a95/img/ui.svg#icon--caret--right"></use> </svg> </span> <span>Our annual reports</span> </a> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="searchcontent__section searchcontent__section--faq"> <p class="searchcontent__title">Frequently asked questions</p> <ul class="searchcontent__faq"> <li> <details class="faq faq--dark" id="searchmenu-faq-I%20am%20looking%20for%20a%20domain%20name%20registrant.%20Where%20can%20I%20look%20it%20up%3F" data-faq> <summary class="faq__question" data-faq-question> <span>I am looking for a domain name registrant. Where can I look it up?</span> <span class="faq__icon"> <svg class="icon"> <use xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="https://www.sidn.nl/assets/3290feeb344ae12b083fc341fafe2a95/img/ui.svg#icon--chevron--down"></use> </svg> </span> </summary> <div class="faq__answer" data-faq-answer><p>The Whois is an easy-to-use tool for checking the availability of a .nl domain name. If the domain name is already taken, you can see who has registered it.</p><p>On the page looking up a domain name you will find more information about what a domain name is, how the Whois works and how the privacy of personal data is protected. Alternatively, you can go straight to look for a domain name via the <a href="/whois/">Whois</a>.</p></div> </details> </li> <li> <details class="faq faq--dark" id="searchmenu-faq-I%20would%20like%20to%20transfer%20my%20domain%20name%20to%20another%20registrar.%20What%20is%20the%20procedure%3F" data-faq> <summary class="faq__question" data-faq-question> <span>I would like to transfer my domain name to another registrar. What is the procedure?</span> <span class="faq__icon"> <svg class="icon"> <use xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="https://www.sidn.nl/assets/3290feeb344ae12b083fc341fafe2a95/img/ui.svg#icon--chevron--down"></use> </svg> </span> </summary> <div class="faq__answer" data-faq-answer><p>To get your domain name transferred, you need the token (unique ID number) for your domain name. Your existing registrar has the token and is obliged to give it to you within five days, if you ask for it.聽The procedure for changing your registrar is described on the page transferring your domain name.</p></div> </details> </li> <li> <details class="faq faq--dark" id="searchmenu-faq-The%20details%20registered%20about%20me%2Fmy%20company%20are%20incorrect%20or%20out%20of%20date.%20How%20can%20I%20get%20them%20updated%3F" data-faq> <summary class="faq__question" data-faq-question> <span>The details registered about me/my company are incorrect or out of date. How can I get them updated?</span> <span class="faq__icon"> <svg class="icon"> <use xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="https://www.sidn.nl/assets/3290feeb344ae12b083fc341fafe2a95/img/ui.svg#icon--chevron--down"></use> </svg> </span> </summary> <div class="faq__answer" data-faq-answer><p>To update the contact details associated with your domain name, you need to contact your registrar. Read more about <a href="/a/nl-domainname/updating-contact-details">updating contact details</a>.</p></div> </details> </li> <li> <details class="faq faq--dark" id="searchmenu-faq-Why%20is%20my%20domain%20name%20in%20quarantine%3F" data-faq> <summary class="faq__question" data-faq-question> <span>Why is my domain name in quarantine?</span> <span class="faq__icon"> <svg class="icon"> <use xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="https://www.sidn.nl/assets/3290feeb344ae12b083fc341fafe2a95/img/ui.svg#icon--chevron--down"></use> </svg> </span> </summary> <div class="faq__answer" data-faq-answer><p>When a domain name is cancelled, we aren't told the reason, so we can't tell you. You'll need to ask your <a href="/registrars">registrar</a>. The advantage of quarantine is that, if a name's cancelled by mistake, you can always get it back. </p><p>One common reason is that the contract between you and your registrar says you've got to renew the registration every year. 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SIDN heeft geen formele klachtenprocedure voor het behandelen van een klacht over jouw registrar.</p></div> </details> </li> <li> <details class="faq faq--dark" id="searchmenu-faq-What%20conditions%20do%20I%20have%20to%20meet%20as%20a%20registrar%3F" data-faq> <summary class="faq__question" data-faq-question> <span>What conditions do I have to meet as a registrar?</span> <span class="faq__icon"> <svg class="icon"> <use xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="https://www.sidn.nl/assets/3290feeb344ae12b083fc341fafe2a95/img/ui.svg#icon--chevron--down"></use> </svg> </span> </summary> <div class="faq__answer" data-faq-answer><p>Would you like to be able to register domain names for customers or for your own organisation by dealing directly with SIDN? If so, you can become a .nl registrar. 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And the history of .nl begins in the eighties. 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The internet was new, and it needed a system for assigning domain names. Because to begin with every internet user had a list of all the others, showing each one's internet address. Those addresses weren't like the ones we use now: they were just numbers. As the number of addresses increased, it became hard for users to keep their lists up to date. The solution was the Domain Name System (DNS), which enables people to reach each other using names instead of numbers. For example, SIDN.nl instead of 212.114.98.237.</p> <figure class="media media--align-right"> <div class="media__container"> <picture class="media__image"> <source type="image/webp" srcset="//images.ctfassets.net/yj8364fopk6s/3YzOUYaVdL1GXAzjC0unoT/d051aaec4df3783aa6c8795a8f1617cf/Piet_Beertema__1984_.jpg?w=1200&h=&fit=fill&fm=webp 1200w,//images.ctfassets.net/yj8364fopk6s/3YzOUYaVdL1GXAzjC0unoT/d051aaec4df3783aa6c8795a8f1617cf/Piet_Beertema__1984_.jpg?w=800&h=&fit=fill&fm=webp 800w,//images.ctfassets.net/yj8364fopk6s/3YzOUYaVdL1GXAzjC0unoT/d051aaec4df3783aa6c8795a8f1617cf/Piet_Beertema__1984_.jpg?w=400&h=&fit=fill&fm=webp 400w" sizes="(max-width: 479px) 100vw,(min-width: 480px) 400px"> <source type="image/jpg" srcset="//images.ctfassets.net/yj8364fopk6s/3YzOUYaVdL1GXAzjC0unoT/d051aaec4df3783aa6c8795a8f1617cf/Piet_Beertema__1984_.jpg?w=1200&h=&fit=fill&fl=progressive 1200w,//images.ctfassets.net/yj8364fopk6s/3YzOUYaVdL1GXAzjC0unoT/d051aaec4df3783aa6c8795a8f1617cf/Piet_Beertema__1984_.jpg?w=800&h=&fit=fill&fl=progressive 800w,//images.ctfassets.net/yj8364fopk6s/3YzOUYaVdL1GXAzjC0unoT/d051aaec4df3783aa6c8795a8f1617cf/Piet_Beertema__1984_.jpg?w=400&h=&fit=fill&fl=progressive 400w" sizes="(max-width: 479px) 100vw,(min-width: 480px) 400px"> <img src="//images.ctfassets.net/yj8364fopk6s/3YzOUYaVdL1GXAzjC0unoT/d051aaec4df3783aa6c8795a8f1617cf/Piet_Beertema__1984_.jpg?w=400&fl=progressive" alt="Piet Beertema 1984" loading="lazy" width="400" > </picture> </div> <figcaption class="media__caption">Piet Beertema, 1984 ( photo: Pieter Boersma )</figcaption> </figure> <h2 id="piet%20beertema%2C%20the%20man%20behind%20.nl">Piet Beertema, the man behind .nl</h2><p><a href="https://www.sidn.nl/en/about-sidn/piet-beertema">Piet Beertema</a> was system manager at the National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science (<a href="https://www.cwi.nl/">CWI</a>). He had the great idea of asking for the Netherlands to have its own the top-level domain: .nl. He put the idea to <a href="https://www.sidn.nl/en/about-sidn/jon-postel">Jon Postel</a>, a US internet pioneer. Jon approved Piet's request and .nl was created. On 1 May 1986, the CWI registered the first .nl domain name: cwi.nl. So .nl was the first active country-code domain outside the US. And to this day, Piet is still the registrant of <a href="http://godfatherof.nl/">godfatherof.nl</a>.</p> <p><a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/6Wa9RSFD9mfeJPf756zyid?si=_Uz5vJdHQ-Grrwgau572yA" class="button">Listen to the podcast 'silent big bang (NL) ></a></p> <div class="highlight highlight--theme"><h4>The registration date of cwi.nl</h4><p>Sharp-eyed readers may have noticed that the Whois gives the registration date of cwi.nl as 30 April 1986. So an explanation is in order. When Piet maintained the domain name database, registration dates were recorded but not registration times. We added a time field to the database later. At that point, all the existing registrations were given a notional registration time of 00:00:00. Everything was then fine until 2012, when we switched to using UTC (Coordinated Universal Time). The change meant that the registration dates of all 'old domains' got moved back a day. So the Whois says cwi.nl was registered on 30 April, when it was actually registered on 1 May.</p></div> <h2 id="the%20start%20of%20sidn">The start of SIDN</h2><p>In the 1990s, the internet grew rapidly, and so did the number of users. Registering all their domain names soon became a big job. Big enough to justify setting up a national foundation to do it: the Foundation for Internet Domain Registration in the Netherlands (SIDN). The people behind the new foundation were <a href="https://www.sidn.nl/en/about-sidn/piet-beertema">Piet Beertema</a>, <a href="https://www.sidn.nl/en/about-sidn/ted-lindgreen">Ted Lindgreen</a> and <a href="https://www.sidn.nl/en/about-sidn/boudewijn-nederkoorn">Boudewijn Nederkoorn</a>. We took over responsibility for registering .nl domain names on 31 January 1996. </p> <p><a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/7kPYcAS5ipgbJsr6V3bq8k?si=ZjzHCkyAQiO0XhOjhnBHAA" class="button">Listen to the podcast 'the early years' (NL) ></a></p> <h2 id="explosive%20growth">Explosive growth</h2><p>Since 2003, anyone has been allowed to register a .nl domain name. No matter where you are and whether you're a business or a private individual. Our first CEO, Hans Kraaijenbrink, worked hard to get that reform, finally succeeding in the year of his death. After that, .nl grew enormously, reaching a million names in the same year. Today, there are more than 6 million names, making .nl the fifth largest country-code domain in the world. For more facts and figures, <a href="https://stats.sidnlabs.nl/en/">visit our statistics page</a>.</p> <p><a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/682rfbID08Ue56k1Al0yEc?si=6-u1YWkgRSuICGu5Zjft2A" class="button">Listen to the podcast 'explosive growth' (NL) ></a></p> <h2 id="milestones">Milestones</h2><div class="table"><table><tr><th><p><b>When?</b></p></th><th><p><b>What?</b></p></th></tr><tr><td><p>2024-11</p></td><td><p><a href="https://www.sidn.nl/en/news-and-blogs/hello-registry-unveiled-as-new-name-for-the-cira-sidn-partnership">Hello Registry unveiled as new name of the CIRA-SIDN partnership </a></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2023-11</p></td><td><p><a href="https://www.sidn.nl/en/news-and-blogs/cira-and-sidn-agree-on-partnership-to-build-new-registry-platform">CIRA and SIDN agree on partnership to build new registry platform</a></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2023-04</p></td><td><p><a href="https://www.sidn.nl/en/news-and-blogs/privacy-and-security-are-top-priorities-for-the-dutch-when-logging-in-online">Introduction of the new identity wallet: Yivi</a></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021-04</p></td><td><p><a href="https://www.sidn.nl/en/35-years-nl">.nl exists 35 years</a></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021-01</p></td><td><p><a href="https://www.sidn.nl/en/news-and-blogs/a-quarter-century-at-the-heart-of-the-dutch-internet">SIDN 25 years at the heart of the internet</a></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020-06</p></td><td><p><a href="https://www.sidn.nl/6miljoen">6 million .nl domain names registered</a></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020-03</p></td><td><p>Majority stake in Connectis sold</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019-11</p></td><td><p>SIDN launches user-friendly security solution for SMEs, <a href="https://www.cybersterk.nl/">CyberSterk</a></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019-11</p></td><td><p>5.9 million .nl domain names registered</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019-11</p></td><td><p>The Internet celebrates its 50 year anniversary</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019-09</p></td><td><p>SIDN and <a href="https://privacybydesign.foundation/">Privacy by Design</a> join forces for privacy-friendly electronic identities based on IRMA</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-12</p></td><td><p>5.8 million .nl domain names registered</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-02</p></td><td><p>5.7 million .nl domain names registered</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-01</p></td><td><p>Majority stake in聽<a href="https://connectis.nl/">Connectis</a></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-04</p></td><td><p>.nl domain celebrates its 30 year anniversary</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-04</p></td><td><p>5.6 million .nl domain names registered</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-02</p></td><td><p>SIDN becomes registry service provider for .amsterdam</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-09</p></td><td><p>5.5 million .nl domain names registered</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-05</p></td><td><p>Foundation of SIDN Fund</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-04</p></td><td><p>SIDN becomes registry service provider for .aw (Aruba)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-05</p></td><td><p>1.5 million .nl domain names secured with DNSSEC</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-09</p></td><td><p>5 million .nl domain names registered</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-08</p></td><td><p>Protection of .nl domain names using <a href="https://www.sidn.nl/a/veilig-internet/dnssec">DNSSEC</a> becomes possible</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-11</p></td><td><p>.nl domain celebrates its silver jubilee</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008-06</p></td><td><p>Covenant with the Dutch government assures .nl's future</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2003-06</p></td><td><p>1 million .nl domain names registered</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2000-11</p></td><td><p>Registration of the first third-level domain name: jansen.123.nl</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1996-01</p></td><td><p>Foundation of SIDN</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1986-05</p></td><td><p>Registration of the first .nl domain name: cwi.nl</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1986-04</p></td><td><p>.nl the first active ccTLD in the world due to Piet Beertema</p></td></tr></table></div><h2 id="sidn%2C%20more%20than%20just%20.nl">SIDN, more than just .nl</h2><p>What else do we do?</p><ul><li><p>We play an important role in international consultative bodies such as ICANN, IETF and CENTR. </p></li><li><p>We do research to make the internet more secure.</p></li><li><p>We support initiatives that promote internet security and internet use.</p></li><li><p>We develop products and services, like <a href="https://www.sidn.nl/en/product/sidn-brandguard">SIDN BrandGuard</a>.</p></li></ul> <p><a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/5sIhDymT20nCQcFXLQCucD?si=eVJGy8XIRfS8JChIuBDmRg" class="button">Listen to the podcast 'the future' (NL) ></a></p> </div> <div class="article__footer"> <div class="social--article social"> <p class="social__heading">Share this article</p> <ul class="social__list"> <li class="social__item"> <a 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