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.COM Registry Agreement | Registry Operator's Monthly Reports

.COM Registry Agreement | Registry Operator's Monthly Reports

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.COM Agreement: Appendix 4
Registry Operator's Monthly Reports


(1 April 2010)


Registry Operator shall provide two 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.

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

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

domains successfully added (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

etc.

09

net-adds-5-yr

" "

10

net-adds-6-yr

" "

11

net-adds-7-yr

" "

12

net-adds-8-yr

" "

13

net-adds-9-yr

" "

14

net-adds-10-yr

" "

15

net-renews-1-yr

domains renewed either automatically or by command (and not deleted within the renew grace period)

16

net-renews-2-yr

number of domains successfully renewed 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 with a new renewal period of three years (and not deleted within the renew grace period)

18

net-renews-4-yr

etc.

19

net-renews-5-yr

" "

20

net-renews-6-yr

" "

21

net-renews-7-yr

" "

22

net-renews-8-yr

" "

23

net-renews-9-yr

" "

24

net-renews-10-yr

" "

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

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” as described in RFC 4180.