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Appendix S
Contents
Part III Description of .coop Sponsored TLD Community
Part IV Selection of Registrars
Part VI Existing Sponsor Services
.COOP Charter
The .coop TLD will be established to serve the needs of the international cooperative community ("Community"). It will be managed in accordance with the provisions of this charter ("Charter") and in the interests of the Community.
(a) members of the National Cooperative Business Association (NCBA), if otherwise eligible;
(b) members of ICA, if otherwise eligible;
(c) organizations formed as and/or considered cooperatives under applicable local law;
(d) associations comprised of cooperatives;
(e) organizations that are committed to the seven cooperative principles;
(f) organizations that are majority controlled by cooperatives;
(g) entities whose operations are principally dedicated to serving cooperatives; and
(h) for no more than 5000 registrants, persons or entities whose use of a .coop domain name would, in the opinion of the DCLLC Board, advance the interests of the cooperative sector in general or would assist in the development of cooperatives worldwide.
From Statement of Co-operative Identity
Definition - A co-operative is an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social, and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly-owned and democratically-controlled enterprise.
Values - Co-operatives are based on the values of self-help, self-responsibility, democracy, equality, equity, and solidarity. In the tradition of their founders, co-operative members believe in the ethical values of honesty, openness, social responsibility, and caring for others.
Principles - The co-operative principles are guidelines by which co-operatives put their values into practice.
1st Principle: Voluntary and Open Membership - Co-operatives are voluntary organizations, open to all persons able to use their services and willing to accept the responsibilities of membership, without gender, social, racial, political, or religious discrimination.
2nd Principle: Democratic Member Control - Co-operatives are democratic organizations controlled by their members, who actively participate in setting their policies and making decisions. Men and women serving as elected representatives are accountable to the membership. In primary co-operatives members have equal voting rights (one member, one vote), and co-operatives at other levels are also organized in a democratic manner.
3rd Principle: Member Economic Participation - Members contribute equitably to, and democratically control, the capital of their co-operative. At least part of that capital is usually the common property of the co-operative. Members usually receive limited compensation, if any, on capital subscribed as a condition of membership. Members allocate surpluses for any or all of the following purposes: developing their co-operative, possibly by setting up reserves, part of which at least would be indivisible; benefiting members in proportion to their transactions with the co-operative; and supporting other activities approved by the membership.
4th Principle: Autonomy and Independence - Co-operatives are autonomous, self-help organizations controlled by their members. If they enter into agreements with other organizations, including governments, or raise capital from external sources, they do so on terms that ensure democratic control by their members and maintain their co-operative autonomy.
5th Principle: Education, Training and Information - Co-operatives provide education and training for their members, elected representatives, managers, and employees so they can contribute effectively to the development of their co-operatives. They inform the general public - particularly young people and opinion leaders - about the nature and benefits of co-operation.
6th Principle: Co-operation Among Co-operatives - Co-operatives serve their members most effectively and strengthen the co-operative movement by working together through local, national, regional, and international structures.
7th Principle: Concern for Community - Co-operatives work for the sustainable development of their communities through policies approved by their members.
Delegated Authority
The following areas of responsibility for development of policies for the Sponsored TLD are delegated to the Sponsor, provided the other provisions of the Agreement and its Appendices are followed:
Description of Sponsored TLD Community
The .coop TLD is intended to serve the needs of the international cooperative community, which consists of those persons or entities eligible to register in the .coop TLD pursuant to the Charter (Part I to this Appendix S).
Selection of Registrars
Sponsor will select among ICANN-accredited registrars wishing to register domain names in the Sponsored TLD in a manner that promotes the following characteristics:Sponsor will periodically review and as appropriate revise its selection of registrars. Sponsor will accept applications from any ICANN-accredited Registrar and will enter into agreements with Registrars only after a decision with respect to the selection of each applicant to serve as a Registrar based on all of the above criteria and will periodically review and, as appropriate, revise its selection of Registrars based on such criteria.
Public Whois Specification
Subject to Sponsor's compliance with this .coop TLD Registry Agreement, including all attachments and appendices thereto (the "Agreement") and any Temporary Specifications or Policies or Consensus Policies as defined in the Agreement, and provided the scope of the Charter is not exceeded Sponsor will ensure that the Registry Operator will implement the following Public Whois Specification.
SPECIFICATION
Subject to any future policy regarding Whois data adopted by ICANN, domain name registrants will be required to provide correct contact information and, as permitted by applicable law, consent to selected information being made public for legitimate purposes.
Until a generally accepted specification replacing RFC 3912 is available, the Registry will provide RFC 3912-compliant Whois service. The specification contained in this Part V to Appendix S is subject to change by agreement of the Registry and ICANN during the design process as well as during the IETF standards process. However, the following provides the target architecture and initial functionality. In addition, Registry agrees to implement changes to this specification specified by ICANN to conform to 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].
Whois Data Management
This draws on the contents of the registry databases. It dynamically generates or deletes Whois records. These are periodically uploaded to the publicly visible Whois Servers.
Whois service features summary
Whois service data elements
These include:
Whois Queries
The Whois service will work with any RFC 3912 compliant Whois client and is designed to be as simple as possible.
The input to the Whois server consists of two parts: the options and the query itself.
If the search parameter is "?" (without the quotes), and no object type is given, no search is performed and a short summary about the input format is returned.
The -b option allows the user to specify the number of characters on a line output by the WHOIS server.
By default, the Whois service searches for domain names. By the following keywords, the search type can be determined:
By default, if no object type control is specified, then the Name field of the Domain object is searched.
Notes
Queries can be made as either an "exact search" or as a "partial search", both of which are insensitive to the case of input string.
An exact search specifies the full string to search for in the database field. An exact match between the input string and the field value is required. For example "dotcoop.coop" will only match with "dotcoop.coop".
A partial search specifies the start of the string to search for in the database field. Every record with a search field that starts with the input string will be considered a match.
To initiate partial searches the asterisk wildcard is used "*". For example "dot*" will match with "dotcoop.coop" as well as "dotcooperation.coop". The Wild card query can be used in the front and/or end of the search string. By default, if multiple matches are found for a query, then full details of all matching results are presented.
Client/Server Session for Query
Whois Output Fields
This section describes the output fields provided for each type of object.
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
Sponsoring Registrar
Domain Status
Registrant, Administrative, Technical and Billing Contact Information
including:
Contact ID
Contact Name
Contact Organization
Contact Address (3 Street Fields), City, State/Province, Country
Contact Postal Code
Contact Phone, Fax, E-mail
Names of nameservers associated with this domain
Created by Registrar
Last Updated by Registrar
Last Transferred Date
Additional fields (Registrar 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
Sponsoring Registrar
Created by Registrar
Last Updated by Registrar
Last Transferred Date
Additional fields (Registrar specified)
Contact Record:
Contact ID
Contact Name
Contact Organization
Contact Address (3 Street Fields), City, State/Province, Country
Contact Postal Code
Contact Phone, Fax, E-mail
Currently Associated
Contact Status
ENS Identity
Sponsoring Registrar
Created Registrar
Contact Registration Date
Contact Last Updated Date
Last Transferred Date
Registrar Record:
Registrar ID (conforming to IANA registrar-id registry)
Registrar Name
Registrar Status
Registrar Address (3 Street Fields), City, State/Province, Country
Registrar Postal Code
Registrar Phone, Fax, E-mail
Registrar Administrative Contact(s)
Registrar Technical Contact(s)
Registrar Billing Contact(s)
Sample Whois Output
This section provides sample output from the Whois server for each type of Registry Object: Domain, Contact, Nameserver, and Registrar. The output is structured as key/value pairs, which simplifies machine-readability. In the Input section, the quoted string represents the string actually passed by the client to the server in the request packet.
Domain Record:
Input:
whois "domain test.coop"
or
whois "test.coop"
Output:
Domain ID: 1234D-COOP
Domain Name: test.coop
Expiry Date: 30 Jan 2007 00:00:00 UTC
Domain Status: clientRenewProhibited
Sponsoring registrar: test-registrar
Sponsoring registrar ID: 123
Created by: test-registrar
Created by ID: 123
Last updated by: test-registrar
Last updated by ID: 123
Created: 09 Jul 2001 22:26:07 UTC
Last updated: 26 Jul 2006 13:52:55 UTC
Last transferred:
Contact Type: registrant
Contact ID: 56789C-COOP
Name: FN Lastname
Organisation: Test Co-op
Street 1: Address 1a
Street 2: Address 1b
Street 3: Address 1c
City: City Name
State/Province: State Code
Postal code: Postal Code
Country: Country Name
Voice: +1.1231231234
Voice extn:
Fax: +1.1231231234
Fax extn:
Email: fnlastname@test.coop
Contact Type: admin
Contact ID: 13567C-COOP
Name: FN Lastname
Organisation: Test Co-op
Street 1: Address 1a
Street 2: Address 1b
Street 3: Address 1c
City: City Name
State/Province: State Code
Postal code: Postal Code
Country: Country Name
Voice: +1.1231231234
Voice extn:
Fax: +1.1231231234
Fax extn:
Email: fnlastname@test.coop
Contact Type: billing
Contact ID: 09876C-COOP
Name: FN Lastname
Organisation: Test Co-op
Street 1: Address 1a
Street 2: Address 1b
Street 3: Address 1c
City: City Name
State/Province: State Code
Postal code: Postal Code
Country: Country Name
Voice: +1.1231231234
Voice extn:
Fax: +1.1231231234
Fax extn:
Email: fnlastname@test.coop
Contact Type: tech
Contact ID: 97531C-COOP
Name: FN Lastname
Organisation: Test Co-op
Street 1: Address 1a
Street 2: Address 1b
Street 3: Address 1c
City: City Name
State/Province: State Code
Postal code: Postal Code
Country: Country Name
Voice: +1.1231231234
Voice extn:
Fax: +1.1231231234
Fax extn:
Email: fnlastname@test.coop
Host ID: 42003H-COOP
Host Name: ns1.testhost.coop
Host ID: 42004H-COOP
Host Name: ns2.testhost.coop
Contact Record:
Input:
whois "contact 56789C-COOP"
Output:
Contact ID: 56789C-COOP
Sponsoring registrar: test-registrar
Sponsoring registrar ID: 123
Created by: test-registrar
Created by ID: 123
Last updated by:
Last updated by ID:
Created: 28 Oct 2005 09:44:07 UTC
Last updated:
Last transferred:
Name: FN Lastname
Organisation: Test Co-op
Street 1: Address 1a
Street 2: Address 1b
Street 3: Address 1c
City: City Name
State/Province: State Code
Postal code: Postal Code
Country: Country Name
Voice: +1.1231231234
Voice extn:
Fax: +1.1231231234
Fax extn:
Email: fnlastname@test.coop
Nameserver Record:
Input:
whois "nameserver ns1.testhost.coop"
or
whois "host ns1.testhost.coop"
Output:
Host ID: 42003H-COOP
Nameserver Name: ns1.testhost.coop
Sponsoring registrar: test-registrar
Sponsoring registrar ID: 123
Created by: test-registrar
Created by ID: 123
Last updated by:
Last updated by ID:
Created: 10 Mar 2005 04:52:22 UTC
Last updated:
Last transferred:
IP Address: 10.10.10.10
Registrar Record:
Input:
whois "registrar test-registrar"
Output:
Registrar Name: test-registrar
Registrar ID: 123
Contact Type: admin
Name: Registrar Name
Organisation: Registrar Company Name
Street 1: Address 1a
Street 2: Address 1b
Street 3: Address 1c
City: City Name
State/Province: State Code
Postal code: Postal Code
Country: Country Name
Voice: +1.1231231234
Voice extn:
Fax: +1.1231231234
Fax extn:
Email: registrarname@registrarcompanyname.coop
Contact Type: billing
Name: Registrar Name
Organisation: Registrar Company Name
Street 1: Address 1a
Street 2: Address 1b
Street 3: Address 1c
City: City Name
State/Province: State Code
Postal code: Postal Code
Country: Country Name
Voice: +1.1231231234
Voice extn:
Fax: +1.1231231234
Fax extn:
Email: registrarname@registrarcompanyname.coop
Contact Type: legal
Name: Registrar Name
Organisation: Registrar Company Name
Street 1: Address 1a
Street 2: Address 1b
Street 3: Address 1c
City: City Name
State/Province: State Code
Postal code: Postal Code
Country: Country Name
Voice: +1.1231231234
Voice extn:
Fax: +1.1231231234
Fax extn:
Email: registrarname@registrarcompanyname.coop
Contact Type: tech
Name: Registrar Name
Organisation: Registrar Company Name
Street 1: Address 1a
Street 2: Address 1b
Street 3: Address 1c
City: City Name
State/Province: State Code
Postal code: Postal Code
Country: Country Name
Voice: +1.1231231234
Voice extn:
Fax: +1.1231231234
Fax extn:
Email: registrarname@registrarcompanyname.coop
Existing Sponsor Services
As of the Effective Date Sponsor offers the following Sponsor Service: