If a registrar change or registrant transfer requires a handshake, the registrar on to which the domain name is to be moved will receive an
authorisation email. This email contains the text required to accept or reject the request.
Guidelines
- The authorisation request contains the all the text required to accept or reject the request. Other text can be stripped out either by hand or automatically.
- Requests not responded to within 5 working days will be automatically rejected.
Instructions
-
- use a subject line of TAG Receive (replace TAG with your tag name in capital letters) or TAG RT Receive.
- To accept a request, strip out all text except that between the two lines 'START OF ACCEPT TEMPLATE --' and 'END OF ACCEPT TEMPLATE --'
- To reject a request, strip out all text except that between the two lines 'START OF REJECT TEMPLATE --' and 'END OF REJECT TEMPLATE --'
- Make sure the email is PGP-signed with a registered PGP key.
- Send the email to applications@nic.uk. Replying to the authorisation request will have this result.
Operation template
The template to accept a registrar change request is:
operation: receive
case-id:
accept:
The template to reject a request is:
operation: receive
case-id:
reject:
Replies
The following is an example of a reply to a successful receive operation to accept a registrar change:
Your request to accept Registrar Change case 1001 has been successfully
processed.
The Registrar Change is for the following n domain names:
automaton-test1.co.uk
automaton-test2.co.uk
...
automaton-testn.co.uk
If the Registrar Change is successfully processed then you will shortly
receive a notification of this.
If you have any questions regarding this message, please send an e-mail to
support@nominet.org.uk
Regards
Nominet
The following is an example of a reply to a successful receive operation to reject a registrar change:
Your request to reject Registrar Change case 1002 has been successfully
processed.
The Registrar Change is for the following n domain names:
automaton-test1.co.uk
automaton-test2.co.uk
...
automaton-testn.co.uk
If you have any questions regarding this message, please send an e-mail to
support@nominet.org.uk
Regards
Nominet