Registering a .hu domain name is essential if you want to launch a website that focuses mainly on the Hungarian market, or if you want a portfolio site to signal the regional background of the business.

If you want to focus your activities primarily on Hungary, .hu domain registration is the best option. All you need besides it is suitable web hosting, and you can start developing the related website or online shop.

How do you register a .hu domain name? Below, we help you get started.

The first step: find a registrar

Domain names are registered by so-called registrars. So the first step is always to find yourself one of these providers.

Several registrars are registered in Hungary and entitled to help you obtain a domain name, so it is worth choosing carefully, as there are differences between them that you can use to your advantage.

Most registrars, for example, also offer hosting services, so you can buy the domain name you have in mind together with web hosting. This is an advantage because you will immediately have the two most important foundations needed to launch your own website.

Registering a .hu domain

Once you have chosen the ideal registrar, all you need to do is complete the registration process, which normally takes just a few minutes. It may differ slightly from registrar to registrar, but we will go through the main steps they have in common.

With every provider, registration typically starts with checking the domain name, as you need to make sure that nobody else is already using the name you have chosen. It is of course also possible to take over a domain that already belongs to someone else, but that will be the topic of another article.

The settings needed after choosing the domain name vary between registrars, but in most cases you always have to specify the registration period, and most of them also let you rent web hosting straight away.

The latter is especially handy because a larger hosting plan often comes with free domain registration. Registration normally always has a cost, and although it is only a modest sum, even that can carry a lot of weight for a non-profit organisation or a private individual.

Domain registration, of course, always involves providing your personal details – or, for a company or business, the information required about it – as this is an official registration process for which the key details of the applying individuals or companies are essential.

You should also know that a .hu domain name only has to be registered once, but it has to be renewed again and again later. How often depends on the period for which you registered it: the minimum is one year and the maximum is currently 10 years.

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