On 1 July, an amendment to the Domain Registration Rules (Domainregisztrációs Szabályzat) of the Council of Hungarian Internet Service Providers (Internet Szolgáltatók Tanácsa, ISZT) brings two major changes and one minor one, which may affect anyone who registers or plans to register a .hu domain.

The first important change is that from now on every email address (the holder’s or a contact’s) must be checked and validated, so the address you give must be live in order to receive the confirmation. For orders placed with us, we have always done this check (even before the change), as an invalid address can result from something as simple as a typo. Existing domain names are not affected by this change, so email addresses do not have to be confirmed retrospectively (at least for now). Even so, it is worth reviewing your details to make sure that your address and other contact details are up to date.

The second important change is that from now on you pay not after a successful domain registration but as soon as the application is submitted. Put simply, if the registration cannot go ahead – whether for reasons beyond our control or simply because a detail was entered incorrectly – the registration fee will not be refunded and cannot be used to register another domain.

The third, minor change is that it is now possible to register a domain name that is not yet technically working: the ‘regcheck’ is no longer a requirement, so you do not need working name servers to register.

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