Generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) Registry Agreements

gTLD Registry Agreements establish the rights, duties, liabilities, and obligations ICANN requires of registry operators to run gTLDs.

.com Registry Agreement Appendix 4

Registry Operator's Monthly Reports

(1 December 2012)

Registry Operator shall provide the following information for .com in three monthly reports as described below. Reports shall be submitted via email to <registry-reports@icann.org>. ICANN may request in the future that the report be delivered by other means. ICANN shall use reasonable commercial efforts to preserve the confidentiality of the information reported until three months after the end of the month to which the report relates.

(A) Monthly Report. File shall be in Portable Document Format (PDF). Report shall contain the following information:

1. Accredited Registrar Status. State the number of registrars in each of the following three categories: (1) operational, (2) ramp-up (registrars that have received a password for access to OT&E), and (3) pre-ramp-up (registrars that have requested access, but have not yet entered the ramp-up period).

2. Service Level Agreement Performance. Compare Service Level Agreement requirements with actual performance measures for the reporting month.

3. TLD Zone File Access Activity. State the total number of zone file access passwords at end of the reporting month.

4. Completed System Software Releases. Describe significant releases during the reporting month, including release name, features, and completion date.

5. Whois Service Activity. State the number of Whois queries during the reporting month separated by service (e.g., WHOIS port-43, web-based Whois).

6. Total Number of Transactions by Subcategory by Month. State the total number of transactions during the reporting month, in the following subcategories: adds, deletes, modifies, checks, renews, transfers, restores.

7. Daily Transaction Range. Tabulate the number of total daily transactions. The range of transaction volume should be shown for each month, along with the average daily transaction volume.

(B) Per-Registrar Activity Report. File shall be named "com-transactions-YYYYMM.csv"; where "YYYYMM" is the year and month being reported. This report shall be in comma separated-value format as specified in RFC 4180, using the following fields per registrar:

Field # Field Name Notes
01 registrar-name registrar's full corporate name as registered with IANA
02 iana-id http://www.iana.org/assignments/registrar-ids
03 total-domains total domains under sponsorship
04 total-nameservers total name servers registered
05 net-adds-1-yr number of domains successfully registered with an initial term of one year (and not deleted within the add grace period)
06 net-adds-2-yr number of domains successfully registered with an initial term of two years (and not deleted within the add grace period)
07 net-adds-3-yr number of domains successfully registered with an initial term of three years (and not deleted within the add grace period)
08 net-adds-4-yr number of domains successfully registered with an initial term of four years (and not deleted within the add grace period)
09 net-adds-5-yr number of domains successfully registered with an initial term of five years (and not deleted within the add grace period)
10 net-adds-6-yr number of domains successfully registered with an initial term of six years (and not deleted within the add grace period)
11 net-adds-7-yr number of domains successfully registered with an initial term of seven years (and not deleted within the add grace period)
12 net-adds-8-yr number of domains successfully registered with an initial term of eight years (and not deleted within the add grace period)
13 net-adds-9-yr number of domains successfully registered with an initial term of nine years (and not deleted within the add grace period)
14 net-adds-10-yr number of domains successfully registered with an initial term of ten years (and not deleted within the add grace period)
15 net-renews-1-yr number of domains successfully renewed either automatically or by command with a new renewal period of one year (and not deleted within the renew grace period)
16 net-renews-2-yr number of domains successfully renewed either automatically or by command with a new renewal period of two years (and not deleted within the renew grace period)
17 net-renews-3-yr number of domains successfully renewed either automatically or by command with a new renewal period of three years (and not deleted within the renew grace period)
18 net-renews-4-yr number of domains successfully renewed either automatically or by command with a new renewal period of four years (and not deleted within the renew grace period)
19 net-renews-5-yr number of domains successfully renewed either automatically or by command with a new renewal period of five years (and not deleted within the renew grace period)
20 net-renews-6-yr number of domains successfully renewed either automatically or by command with a new renewal period of six years (and not deleted within the renew grace period)
21 net-renews-7-yr number of domains successfully renewed either automatically or by command with a new renewal period of seven years (and not deleted within the renew grace period)
22 net-renews-8-yr number of domains successfully renewed either automatically or by command with a new renewal period of eight years (and not deleted within the renew grace period)
23 net-renews-9-yr number of domains successfully renewed either automatically or by command with a new renewal period of nine years (and not deleted within the renew grace period)
24 net-renews-10-yr number of domains successfully renewed either automatically or by command with a new renewal period of ten years (and not deleted within the renew grace period)
25 transfer-gaining-successful transfers initiated by this registrar that were ack'd by the other registrar – either by command or automatically
26 transfer-gaining-nacked transfers initiated by this registrar that were n'acked by the other registrar
27 transfer-losing-successful transfers initiated by another registrar that this registrar ack'd – either by command or automatically
28 transfer-losing-nacked transfers initiated by another registrar that this registrar n'acked
29 transfer-disputed-won number of transfer disputes in which this registrar prevailed
30 transfer-disputed-lost number of transfer disputes this registrar lost
31 transfer-disputed-nodecision number of transfer disputes involving this registrar with a split or no decision
32 deleted-domains-grace domains deleted within the add grace period
33 deleted-domains-nograce domains deleted outside the add grace period
34 restored-domains domain names restored from redemption period
35 restored-noreport total number of restored names for which the registrar failed to submit a restore report
36 agp-exemption-requests total number of AGP (add grace period) exemption requests
37 agp-exemptions-granted total number of AGP (add grace period) exemption requests granted
38 agp-exempted-domains total number of names affected by granted AGP (add grace period) exemption requests
39 attempted-adds number of attempted (successful and failed) domain name create commands

The first line shall include the field names exactly as they appear in the table above as a "header line" as described in section 2 of RFC 4180. The last line of each report should include totals for each column across all registrars. The first field of this line shall read "Totals" while the second field shall be left empty in that line. No other lines besides the ones described above shall be included. Line breaks shall be "CRLF" (<U+000D, U+000A>) as described in RFC 4180.

(C) Registry Functions Activity Report. This report shall be compiled in a comma separated-value formatted file as specified in RFC 4180. The file shall be named "com-activity-yyyymm.csv", where "yyyymm" is the year and month being reported. The file shall contain the following fields:

Field # Field Name Description
01 operational-registrars number of operational registrars at the end of the reporting period
02 ramp-up-registrars number of registrars that have received a password for access to OT&E at the end of the reporting period
03 pre-ramp-up-registrars number of registrars that have requested access, but have not yet entered the ramp-up period at the end of the reporting period
04 zfa-passwords number of active zone file access passwords at the end of the reporting period
05 whois-43-queries number of WHOIS (port-43) queries responded during the reporting period
06 web-whois-queries number of Web-based Whois queries responded during the reporting period, not including searchable Whois
07 searchable-whois-queries number of searchable Whois queries responded during the reporting period, if offered
08 dns-udp-queries-received number of DNS queries received over UDP transport during the reporting period
09 dns-udp-queries-responded number of DNS queries received over UDP transport that were responded during the reporting period
10 dns-tcp-queries-received number of DNS queries received over TCP transport during the reporting period
11 dns-tcp-queries-responded number of DNS queries received over TCP transport that were responded during the reporting period
12 srs-dom-check number of SRS (EPP and any other interface) domain name "check" requests responded during the reporting period
13 srs-dom-create number of SRS (EPP and any other interface) domain name "create" requests responded during the reporting period
14 srs-dom-delete number of SRS (EPP and any other interface) domain name "delete" requests responded during the reporting period
15 srs-dom-info number of SRS (EPP and any other interface) domain name "info" requests responded during the reporting period
16 srs-dom-renew number of SRS (EPP and any other interface) domain name

"renew" requests responded during the reporting period

17 srs-dom-rgp-restore-report number of SRS (EPP and any other interface) domain name RGP "restore" requests delivering a restore report responded during the reporting period
18 srs-dom-rgp-restore-request number of SRS (EPP and any other interface) domain name RGP "restore" requests responded during the reporting period
19 srs-dom-transfer-approve number of SRS (EPP and any other interface) domain name "transfer" requests to approve transfers responded during the reporting period
20 srs-dom-transfer-cancel number of SRS (EPP and any other interface) domain name "transfer" requests to cancel transfers responded during the reporting period
21 srs-dom-transfer-query number of SRS (EPP and any other interface) domain name "transfer" requests to query about a transfer responded during the reporting period
22 srs-dom-transfer-reject number of SRS (EPP and any other interface) domain name "transfer" requests to reject transfers responded during the reporting period
23 srs-dom-transfer-request number of SRS (EPP and any other interface) domain name "transfer" requests to request transfers responded during the reporting period
24 srs-dom-update number of SRS (EPP and any other interface) domain name "update" requests (not including RGP restore requests) responded during the reporting period
25 srs-host-check number of SRS (EPP and any other interface) host "check" requests responded during the reporting period
26 srs-host-create number of SRS (EPP and any other interface) host "create" requests responded during the reporting period
27 srs-host-delete number of SRS (EPP and any other interface) host "delete" requests responded during the reporting period
28 srs-host-info number of SRS (EPP and any other interface) host "info" requests responded during the reporting period
29 srs-host-update number of SRS (EPP and any other interface) host "update" requests responded during the reporting period
30 srs-cont-check number of SRS (EPP and any other interface) contact "check" requests responded during the reporting period
31 srs-cont-create number of SRS (EPP and any other interface) contact "create" requests responded during the reporting period
32 srs-cont-delete number of SRS (EPP and any other interface) contact "delete" requests responded during the reporting period
33 srs-cont-info number of SRS (EPP and any other interface) contact "info" requests responded during the reporting period
34 srs-cont-transfer-approve number of SRS (EPP and any other interface) contact "transfer" requests to approve transfers responded during the reporting period
35 srs-cont-transfer-cancel number of SRS (EPP and any other interface) contact "transfer" requests to cancel transfers responded during the reporting period
36 srs-cont-transfer-query number of SRS (EPP and any other interface) contact "transfer" requests to query about a transfer responded during the reporting period
37 srs-cont-transfer-reject number of SRS (EPP and any other interface) contact "transfer" requests to reject transfers responded during the reporting period
38 srs-cont-transfer-request number of SRS (EPP and any other interface) contact "transfer" requests to request transfers responded during the reporting period
39 srs-cont-update number of SRS (EPP and any other interface) contact "update" requests responded during the reporting period

The first line shall include the field names exactly as described in the table above as a "header line" as described in section 2 of RFC 4180. The last line of each report shall include totals for each column across all registrars; the first field of this line shall read "Totals" while the second field shall be left empty in that line. No other lines besides the ones described above shall be included. Line breaks shall be <U+000D, U+000A> as described in RFC 4180.