I want register a .edu site. Dear member I want to know is there any way to register a .edu site? what are the steps I really need to kow it. Thanks.
http://www.educause.edu/edudomain/eligibility.asp "Only postsecondary institutions that are institutionally accredited by an agency on the U.S. Department of Education's list of Nationally Recognized Accrediting Agencies (see recognized accrediting bodies) may obtain an Internet name in the .edu domain. These include both "Regional Institutional Accrediting Agencies" and "National Institutional and Specialized Accrediting Bodies" recognized by the U.S. Department of Education."
I have nothing I just wana open online education system and need a .edu domain so thats not possible.....very sad
if you attend a accredited school or know somebody you can get a email address with a .edu from the school
.edu used to be open to other countries but they changed the requirements.. and new registrations are USA only.
You can own a .edu domain if it was registered prior to 2001 (I believe). Be ready to dish out some serious cash though.
No the user was selling it for 100k , are you looking .edu domain for links ? I don't think they are valued differently from other Tlds.I did not see a boost after getting some edu links for one of my sites.
I've published on this topic in the past, and as a refresher, will summarize main regulations below: 1. Current Regulations. Currently, new EDU registrations are reserved only for institutions accredited by agencies on the US Department of Education list, and the so-called EDU management organizations (e.g. University of California Reagents), that oversee multiple universities. Legally there is no geographical restriction for new EDUs, and a number of foreign universities accredited by US accrediting agencies have .EDU (e.g. www.london.edu - London Business School). 2. Grandfathered Clause. Prior to 2001, EDU domains were managed by NetworkSolutions, which had somewhat different rules than the current registrar. As a result, when the US Department of Commerce transferred the administration to Educause, they stipulated a grandfathered clause. The grandfathered clause states that any EDU registered prior to 2001 does not need to meet accreditation requirements and other post-2001 stipulations (such as the 1 name per school restriction). As a result, there are many non-university organizations that own EDU, including high schools, museums, associations, and for-profit corporations (e.g. Montgomery Blair High School - www.mbhs.edu; J. Paul Getty Trust - www.getty.edu; Exploratorium Science Museum - www.exploratorium.edu, just to name a few). 3. How to get .EDU Unless you're an accredited school, you cannot register a new .EDU. Neither can you buy an EDU domain as they cannot be legally bought or sold directly, only through the transfer of organizational ownership. Thus, an individual can only get an EDU by buying an entire school / organization, which owns a grandfathered .EDU (typically, this will be a small school that closed its doors or never took off the ground because of funding, etc.). Avg. price of these deals ~ $15-20K. PM me if you have more questions.
www.mm.edu is registered to a Swedish company. I have no idea exactly how much education they do, but they got their own .edu domain. /Andreas
Andreas - this is a good example of the Grandfathered Clause. It doesn't matter whether MacMeckarna AB (the owner of www.mm.edu) is a university or even offers any courses. This domain was registered in 1996 back when the registry was operated by NetworkSolutions. Under the 2001 grandfathered clause, they can do anything they want with mm.edu and don't have to be accredited by any agency.
I understand. I guess I should have checked the registration date Can a company like that ever loose the right to the domain name (assuming that they pay all domain name fees)? /Andreas
No, they cannot. That's the beauty of grandfathered EDU names (on the other hand, post-2001 EDUs depend on the accreditation status; if the school loses its accreditation, it can loose the .EDU domain as well). Legally, Educause can only take away the grandfathered .EDU if it's found that the owner attempted to sell it (as opposed to selling the organization...see my post above) or lease it. But even in those cases, Educause will send a letter first, and if the problem is corrected, they leave them alone. Keep in mind that there are only about 6,500 .EDU domains in the world. It's a very small community and things are still done in a somewhat old-fashioned, non-commercial way. Speaking of the latter, there were no registration fees for .EDUs until 2006.