TLD Sponsorship Agreement: Attachment 15 (.museum)

TLD Sponsorship Agreement: Attachment 15 (.museum) Posted: 15 October 2001

Public Whois Specification

The Sponsor will provide RFC954-conformant Whois service. This Attachment is subject to change by agreement of the Sponsor and ICANN during the design process as well as during the IETF standards process. The following provides the target architecture and initial functionality. In addition, Registry Operator agrees to implement changes to this Appendix specified by ICANN to conform to the IETF provreg working group's protocol specification no later than 135 days after the IETF specification is adopted as a Proposed Standard [RFC 2026, section 4.1.1].

RFC954-Conformant Whois

The standard registry-level Whois service is intended as a lookup service for registries, registrars, registrants, as well as for other individuals and businesses that wish to query details about domain names or nameservers stored in the registry. The standard Whois service will provide a central location for all authoritative .museum TLD data. It will be in addition to Whois services provided by registrars.

The RFC954-conformant Whois service will be engineered to handle moderate transaction load and be integral to the standard suite of Registry Services. The RFC954-conformant Whois service will conform to the requirements of Attachments 6 and 7.

The registry-level Whois service will provide Whois data in response to queries over port 43, in conformity to the RFC 954 standard. The Registry Operator, or other vendor arranged by the Sponsor, will also provide a port 80 (web) interface to allow convenient user access to the Whois service.

Whois Service Data Elements

The registry-level Whois service will include the following data elements:

• The name of the domain name registered;
• The IP addresses of the primary nameserver and secondary nameserver(s) for the name registered;
• The corresponding names of those nameservers;
• The identity of the of the sponsoring registrar;
• The ENS identity of the registrant;
• The original creation date and term of the registration;
• The name, postal address, e-mail address, voice telephone number, and (where available) fax number of the domain name registrant;
• The name, postal address, e-mail address, voice telephone number, and (where available) fax number of the technical contact for the name registered; and
• The name, postal address, e-mail address, voice telephone number, and (where available) fax number of the administrative contact for the name registered.

Minimum Data Update Frequency

The Sponsor shall make reasonable efforts to have the data updated continuously as requests are processed, in a matter of seconds or minutes. The Sponsor shall ensure that records in the Whois server are updated no later than 24 hours after the completion of the registration or modification transaction with the registrar.

Extensible Field Capability

MuseDoma will provide a directory service at directory.museum as described in Attachment 13. Means for accessing selected records in the database underlying that service may be provided as an extension of the Whois facility.

Privacy Capability

The Sponsor may introduce the optional ability to associate privacy labels to a record in the Registry Database. These fields would appear in an "additional information" section of the Whois data. The maximum number of custom fields allowed per record is yet to be determined.

The privacy label capability allows registrants to associate with certain data an indication of any special disclosure or handling restrictions.

Query Control/Object Type Control

The following keywords restrict a search to specific object type:

Domain: Search only by domain objects. The input string is searched in the Name field.

Contact: Search only contact objects. The input string is searched in the ID field.

Nameserver: Search only by nameserver objects. The input string is searched in the nameserver name field or the IP address field.

Registrar: Search only registrar objects. The input string is searched in the Name field.

By default, if no object type control is specified, then the Name field of the Domain object is searched.

Whois Output Fields

The Whois service will provide responses to queries as described below. In the event that a query produces no match, the response of the Whois server will begin with the words "No matching data found."

Domain Record:

A Whois query that results in domain information will return the following fields from the Domain object and the associated data from host and contact objects. This set of data is also referred to as the Domain Record.

Domain ID
Domain Name
Domain Status
Sponsoring Registrar
ENS Identity
Registrant, Administrative, Technical and Billing Contact Information including
Contact ID
Contact Name
Contact Organization
Contact Address, City, State/Province, Country
Contact Postal Code
Contact Phone, Fax, E-mail
Name Servers associated with this domain
Created Date
Last Updated Date
Last Transferred Date
Additional fields (Sponsor specified)
Domain Registration Date
Domain Expiration Date
Domain Last Updated Date

Nameserver Record:

Nameserver ID
Nameserver name
Currently Associated (true/false)
Nameserver status
IP addresses associated
Created Date
Sponsoring Registrar
Last Updated Date
Last Transferred Date
Additional fields (Sponsor specified)

Contact Record:

A Whois query that results in contact information will return the following. This set of information is referred to as the Contact Record.

Contact ID
Contact Name
Contact Organization
Contact Address, City, State/Province, Country + 3 street fields
Contact Postal Code
Contact Phone, Fax, E-mail
Contact Registration Date
Contact Last Updated Date
Currently Associated
Contact Status
ENS Identity
Sponsoring Registrar
Created Date
Last Transferred Date

Registrar Record:

A Whois query that results in registrar information will return the following. This set of information is referred to as the Registrar Record.

Registrar ID (conforming to the IANA registrar-ids registry)
Registrar Name
Registrar Status
Registrar Address, City, State/Province, Country
Registrar Postal Code
Registrar Phone, Fax, E-mail
Registrar Administrative Contacts
Registrar Billing Contacts

Sample Whois Output

This section provides sample output from the Whois server for each type of Registry Object: Domain, Contact, and Nameserver. The output is structured as key/value pairs, which simplifies machine-readability.

Domain Record:

Input: whois "domain = musedoma.museum"
Output: Domain ID: AAA-0001
Domain Name: MUSEDOMA.MUSEUM
Sponsoring Registrar: SAMPLE
ENS Identity : ORG-00001
Domain Status: ACTIVE
Registrant Name: CARY KARP
Registrant Organization: MUSEUM DOMAIN MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION
Registrant Address: FRESCATIVÄGEN 40
Registrant City: STOCKHOLM
Registrant State/Province: A
Registrant Country: SE
Registrant Postal Code: 10405
Registrant Phone Number: +46-8-5195-4055
Registrant Facsimile Number: +46-8-5195-5100
Registrant Email: KARP@MUSEDOMA.MUSEUM
Admin ID: PER-00001
Admin Name: CARY KARP
Admin Organization: MUSEUM DOMAIN MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION
Admin Address: FRESCATIVÄGEN 40
Admin City: STOCKHOLM
Admin State/Province: A
Admin Country: SE
Admin Postal Code: 10405
Admin Phone Number: +46-8-5195-4055
Admin Facsimile Number: +46-8-5195-5100
Admin Email: KARP@MUSEDOMA.MUSEUM
Tech ID: PER-00001
Tech Name: CARY KARP
Tech Organization: MUSEUM DOMAIN MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION
Tech Address: FRESCATIVÄGEN 40
Tech City: STOCKHOLM
Tech State/Province: A
Tech Country: SE
Tech Postal Code: 10405
Tech Phone Number: +46-8-5195-4055
Tech Facsimile Number: +46-8-5195-5100
Tech Email: KARP@MUSEDOMA.MUSEUM
Billing ID: PER-00001
Billing Name: CARY KARP
Billing Organization: MUSEUM DOMAIN MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION
Billing Address: FRESCATIVÄGEN 40
Billing City: STOCKHOLM
Billing State/Province: A
Billing Country: SE
Billing Postal Code: 10405
Billing Phone Number: +46-8-51954055
Billing Facsimile Number: +46-8-51955100
Billing Email: KARP@MUSEDOMA.MUSEUM
Name Server: NIC.MUSEUM.ORG
Name Server: WWW.ICOM.ORG
Created On: JANUARY 2, 2002
Expires On: JANUARY 2, 2004
Updated On: JANUARY 2, 2002

Contact Record:

Input: whois "contact = Cary Karp"
Output: Contact ID: PER-00001
Name: CARY KARP
ENS Identity: ORG-0001
Organization: MUSEUM DOMAIN MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION
Address: FRESCATIVÄGEN 40
City: STOCKHOLM
State: A
Country: SE
Postal Code: 10405
Phone Number: +46-8-5195-4055
Facsimile Number +46-8-5195-5100
E-mail: KARP@MUSEDOMA.MUSEUM
Sponsoring Registrar: SAMPLE
Created On: JANUARY 2, 2002
Updated On: JANUARY 2, 2002

Nameserver Record:

Input: whois "nameserver nic.musedoma.museum"
Output: Nameserver ID: HST-1
Nameserver name: NIC.MUSEDOMA.MUSEUM
Currently Associated (true/false):T
Nameserver status: ACTIVE
IP addresses associated: 130.242.24.6
Sponsoring Registrar: SAMPLE
Created by registrar: JANUARY 2, 2002
Last Updated by Registrar: JANUARY 2, 2002
Last Transferred Date: JANUARY 2, 2002
Additional fields (Sponsor specified)

Registrar Record:

Input: whois "registrar SAMPLE"
Output: Registrar ID: REG-01
Registrar Name: SAMPLE
Registrar Status: ACTIVE
Registrar Address 1: 123 Some Street
Registrar Address 2:
Registrar City: Acity
Registrar State/Province: RE
Registrar Country: CC
Registrar Postal Code: 12345
Registrar Phone: +11-11-1111-1111
Registrar E-mail: jdoe@sample.tld
Admin Contact Name: Jane Doe
Admin Contact Phone: +11-11-1111-1111
Admin Contact E-mail: jdoe@sample.tld
Billing Contact Name: Jane Doe
Billing Contact Phone: +11-11-1111-1111
Billing Contact E-mail: jdoe@sample.tld

Prior drafts:

4 September 2001