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Unsponsored TLD Agreement: Appendix C, Section 9 (.biz)

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Unsponsored TLD Agreement: Appendix C, Section 9 (.biz)
Posted: 27 April 2001


Functional Specifications

C.9 Transfers

The system will provide a function to TRANSFER ownership of an entity to a new parent entity. Examples of this are transferring a domain-name to a new registrant (Transfer of registrant/registrar) and transferring a registrant to a new registrar (Transfer of registrar).

The TRANSFER function will operate on the registrant, domain-name, and contact entities.

The TRANSFER function will take a source entity type and identifier as well as a new sponsorship entity type and identifier as input. If the source entity type is a domain-name the new owner entity type must be a registrant. If the source entity type is a registrant, the new owner entity type must be a registrar.

The TRANSFER function will return a response code indicating success or failure.

Registrars will only be able to TRANSFER a registrant entity to themselves, and to do so they must supply the registrant authentication.

Registrars will only be able to TRANSFER domain-name entities to registrants that they sponsor.

Registry supervisors will be able to TRANSFER any domain-name entity to any registrant.

Registry supervisors will be able to TRANSFER any registrant to any registrar.

Transfer of domain-name entities creates billing transactions.


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