.edu.gr Domain
Greece's Educational Domain
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What is a .edu.gr domain?
The .edu.gr extension is the educational sub-domain within Greece's .gr namespace, used by Greek universities, research centres and educational organisations. It is not reserved for them: the registry examines only names under gov.gr and names on the EETT geographical-terms list, and assigns everything else automatically, describing a sub-domain as recommended for organisational reasons rather than required. The registry is ICS-FORTH, the Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas, under EETT regulation. GRNET is the Greek academic network and a separate body.
Who should register .edu.gr?
Greek universities, research centres, language schools in Greece, and educational organisations with Greek academic ties.
Why choose .edu.gr?
- The educational sub-domain of the .gr namespace
- Reads as academic without being reserved for it
- Run by ICS-FORTH under EETT regulation
- Clear educational purpose within the Greek namespace
Who runs .edu.gr, and since when
Registry data from the .edu.gr delegation record held by IANA, which maintains the internet's root zone. Eligibility comes from the registry's own policy, and the prices are ours.
- Extension type
- Country-code (ccTLD)
- Registered under the .gr zone
- Registry operator
- ICS-FORTH GR
- The organisation that runs the extension
- .gr delegated
- 1989
- The date belongs to the .gr zone, not to .edu.gr itself
- Who can register
- Open to anyone worldwide; the registry does not verify educational status
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £42.99 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
Why .edu.gr is a convention, not a credential
The Greek registry is run by FORTH, the Foundation for Research and Technology in Crete, under rules set by the telecoms regulator EETT. It created a handful of second level labels to tidy its namespace: com.gr for commercial activity, net.gr for network providers, org.gr for non-profits, gov.gr for government, and edu.gr for educational organisations. Then it says the quiet part out loud. Registering under a sub-domain is not mandatory, and is recommended for organisational reasons.
Only two categories are examined before assignment: names under gov.gr, and names matching EETT's published list of geographical terms. Everything else, edu.gr included, is checked automatically against the void grounds in Article 8 of the regulation, goes temporarily active within three hours and is assigned after five days. No ministry signs anything off. No accreditation is inspected. A .edu.gr tells a visitor what you say you are.
Two registry facts matter more to a buyer than the label does. Greek names are assigned for two years at a time rather than one. And once a .gr expires you have fifteen days to renew before the name is available to anybody in the world.
Is .edu.gr the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.edu.gr works well if
- You are a Greek school, university or training provider, so the label describes what you actually are. That is the only sound reason to pay for the longer name.
- You publish courses or research for a Greek audience and want to be sorted from commercial sites at a glance.
- The plain .gr for your institution name has gone, and edu.gr hands the exact name back with useful context attached.
Look elsewhere if
- You want edu in the address to lend authority. Nothing is verified, so a reader who knows the rules discounts it entirely.
- Price matters. On this site a plain .gr costs a good deal less than a .edu.gr and carries exactly the same country signal.
- You do not track renewal dates closely. Fifteen days after a .gr expires anyone can take it, which is far less room than most extensions allow.
Only after a Greek address? A plain .gr does the same job in Google, reads more cleanly and costs less. See .gr pricing.
.edu.gr vs .gr: which should you register?
Google treats both as Greek, so there is no search advantage either way. The difference is what a Greek reader infers, and how much you pay for that inference. A plain .gr is the national default used by businesses, institutions and individuals alike; edu.gr narrows the reading to education without anyone having checked that the narrowing is true.
Pick .gr unless you are actually an educational organisation, and quite possibly even then, because it is shorter, cheaper here and universally understood in Greece. Pick .edu.gr when education is the whole of what you do and you want that separation from commercial sites in the address itself. Whichever you choose, both are assigned in two year blocks and both give you only fifteen days after expiry.
.edu.gr domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .edu.gr domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyNo. The Greek registry examines only two things before assignment: names under gov.gr, and names on EETT's list of geographical terms. Every other name, edu.gr included, is checked automatically against the void grounds in the regulation and then assigned. The registry describes its sub-domains as existing for the better organisation of the namespace and states that registering under one is not mandatory. Nothing about the edu label is verified.
They are unrelated. The .edu people usually have in mind is a separate American top level domain with its own registry and its own eligibility rules. A .edu.gr is a label inside Greece's country code namespace, run by FORTH under EETT regulation, with no accreditation check at all. If your reason for wanting one is that .edu carries weight, you are buying an association that does not transfer.
Two years. The right acquired by assignment of a .gr name stays valid for two years from the date the assignment declaration reaches the registry, and the registry's published fees apply to a two year period rather than an annual one. The renewal window afterwards is short: fifteen days after expiry, during which the registrant can renew through any registrar using the authorisation code, and after that the name is open to anyone.
Included with Your .edu.gr Domain
DNS Management
Full DNS zone editor to manage A, CNAME, MX, TXT, and all record types.
Email Forwarding
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Auto-Renewal
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Free 10GB Mailbox
One 10GB mailbox (POP3/IMAP) included with every domain, on any TLD.
The Free Mailbox Sends Your Email. DKIM Proves It Was You.
Your domain comes with a real 10 GB mailbox. Signing what you send is the part that happens on a mail server rather than in DNS.
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SPF
Free with your domainSender Policy Framework. A DNS record naming the servers allowed to send mail for your domain. It vouches for the connection rather than the message, so it stops verifying as soon as anyone forwards what you sent.
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DKIM
Needs a mail server that signsDomainKeys Identified Mail. Your mail server signs every message on the way out, and the receiving server checks that signature against a key in your DNS. It covers the message itself, so it survives a forward where SPF cannot.
DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yourdomain.co.uk; s=default; t=1790160000; h=from:to:subject:date:message-id; bh=2jUSOH9NhtVGCQWNr9BrIAPreKQjO6Sn7XIkfJVOzv8=; b=NpX0k2f1oW8tR6yQzLm4cVb7JhTdEu...The header a signing mail server adds. d=is your domain andb=is the signature proving the message came from it. A domain on its own has no server to write that header. -
DMARC
Meaningful once DKIM is in placeDomain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance. The policy telling a receiving server what to do with mail that fails those checks, and where to send the reports. It only bites once SPF or DKIM lines up with the address you send from.
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