Approved characters for .dk domain names

Version 2.1, 26. April, 2023

1. About approved characters for .dk domain names

1.1 This document specifies which and how many characters a .dk domain name may contain.

2. Maximum number of characters

2.1 A .dk domain name may not contain more than 63 characters.

3. Approved characters

3.1 The following characters may be used when registering a .dk domain name:

  • All Danish letters (incl. æ, ø and å)
  • The letters ö, ä, ü, é and ß
  • Numbers from 0 to 9
  • Hyphen (-). However, a hyphen may not be the first or last character in the domain name.

A domain name cannot have two leading characters followed by two hyphens, e.g. a2--punktum.dk.

3.2 It is not possible to register domain names containing characters other than those mentioned in section 3.1 above.