Hi

Are there any extra steps involved. I noticed that most registrars dont carry the .edu?

rgds

I *think* Network Solutions is the only one that offers it directly. The steps are pretty involved too from what I hear. Essentially you need to provide prove you're a proper educational institution. I've heard of colleges being knocked back because they weren't 'educational' enough.

This is heresay of course as I'm never had to try ro register one. Your best bet to find out from them exactly what they require, and make sure you have it first.

Greg Moore

Not positive but I think you have to be an accredited university/college to get a .edu domain.

-Brendan

I did some digging.

http://www.netsol.com/en_US/help/domain-names-chars-06.jhtml

right from the horses mouth (or other end considering it's Net Sol we're talking about here) :D The first lines says:

"Registrations in the .EDU domain are reserved for colleges and universities that grant degrees at the bachelor, master and doctoral level, or its non-U.S. equivalent."

Greg Moore

Originally posted by akashik
http://www.netsol.com/en_US/help/domain-names-chars-06.jhtml

"Registrations in the .EDU domain are reserved for colleges and universities that grant degrees at the bachelor, master and doctoral level, or its non-U.S. equivalent."

And like bbrader said, you have to be accredited and prove that to them. Getting accreditation can take a number of years of offering courses and/or degrees.

Originally posted by akashik
I did some digging.

http://www.netsol.com/en_US/help/domain-names-chars-06.jhtml

right from the horses mouth (or other end considering it's Net Sol we're talking about here) :D The first lines says:

"Registrations in the .EDU domain are reserved for colleges and universities that grant degrees at the bachelor, master and doctoral level, or its non-U.S. equivalent."

Greg Moore

Then how come several high schools have them if they dont grant bachelor+ degrees? Go figure. Unless maybe they changed that policy recently or something...

Generally only colleges and universities have managed to get .edu domains, but some institutions that are not really colleges or even degree-granting institutions have them. One that has always seemed odd to me is the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS). It is possible to get college credit for some of the courses, but they do not grant any college-level degrees themselves. Here's their site, complete with that .edu tld:

http://www.nols.edu/

maybe they just never verify any info?

Originally posted by multipleimage
maybe they just never verify any info?

Maybe, but I have always been under the impression that Netsol is pretty good about verifying information for .edu's. If they weren't I think you'd see a lot more of them out there.

PS I just read the rules listed on that link and I can say that they are not followed. I know of plenty of business schools that have seperate .edu domains from the university that they are part of. From the Netsol page linked to earlier in this thread:
Each college or university may register only one .EDU domain name. Graduate programs, remote campuses, etc., cannot obtain a .EDU domain name of their own. Instead, they should obtain a third-level domain beneath the second-level domain of their institution.

Here are a couple of grad schools with their own .edu's (though most do not have them):
http://www.hbs.edu/
http://www.tuck.edu/

Most .edu domains were allocated on an ad hoc basis by Jon Postel (aka 'the god of the internet') before there were any established rules. Now that there are rules, however, people are generally expected to follow them, and NSI does check.

I'm actually pretty sure that the Tuck school's tuck.edu domain is relatively new. I really don't think they had it when I was an undergrad at Dartmouth a couple of years ago and the created on date in the whois record is January 19, 2001.

hbs.edu, dating back to '95, probably does pre-date netsol control over .edu's. NOLS is even older than hbs, with their record for nols.edu dating back to '94.

-joe

There's always http://root.edu/ ("Select All" to see more text) which clearly isn't a school or college...I have no idea how they registered that.

Originally posted by qslack
There's always http://root.edu/ ("Select All" to see more text) which clearly isn't a school or college...I have no idea how they registered that.

Wow... I guess the real question is: "Who do I gotta bl*w at NetSol to get an .edu????"