Guidelines

• The Renew operation automatically generates an invoice and this cannot be credited nor can the Renew operation be cancelled.
• The earliest a Renew operation can be performed on a domain name is six months before the expiry date.
• A Renew can also be sent after expiry, right up until the domain is actually cancelled.
• The need for a manual renewal operation can be removed by setting the 'auto-bill' field in a MODIFY operation.  
• The decision on who is billed is determined by the setting of 'first-bill' and 'recur-bill'.  
• For more details on those fields and how to use them see the field definitions.
• Further documentation is available on the whole renewal process .

Instructions

• Send to the appropriate address
  
• use a subject line of "TAG Renew" (replace TAG with your tag name in capital letters)
• use the template below to specify the domain you wish to renew
• you can specify up to 100 domain names in one message by separating each set of fields with a blank line
• Make sure the email is PGP-signed with a registered PGP key.

Operation template

The following template is used:

operation: renew
key:

Notes

1. The 'key' must specify a domain name on your tag.

Reply template

The reply template is the same as that for a Modify operation, though with a different subject line

Subject: Re: ACK TAG Renew

Your message has been processed by the UK NIC automated DNS
delegation system. The required additions/changes have been
made to the database and will become visible in the zone file within thirty minutes.

The delegation for automaton-example.co.uk has been updated successfully.
To check the current state of the entry for automaton-example.co.uk
in the database, use the following command

% whois -h whois.nic.uk automaton-example.co.uk

Regards

Nominet

Notes

1. The TAG in the subject lines is replaced with your TAG, provided that you specified it in the original subject.

Errors

After processing your operation the Automaton produces and sends an automated reply.  If there is a problem with the operation then two different error condition may occur

• non-fatal errors (warning messages) may be appended to successful replies.
• fatal errors that prevents the operation from being carried out and so an error reply is generated.

Full details of the template of the error reply and the meaning of the error messages can be found here.