Management of synchronous operations on domain names of the ccTLD .it

Abstract

This document details the operations needed for registering and maintaining domain names in accordance with synchronous registration. The synchronous system for registering and maintaining a domain name is provided by organizations (henceforth Registrars) that have an active contract with the Registry (henceforth .it Registry or Registry of the ccTLD.it), which is subordinate to an accreditation procedure. The Registrar will always be an intermediary with the Registry for all domain name registering and maintenance and also for correctly updating the Database of Assigned Names (DBNA) by using the synchronous registration system. The synchronous registration system allows Registrars to register and maintain domain names in realtime within the limits set out in the "Rules for assigning and managing domain names in the ccTLD.it" (hereafter, "Rules"). The synchronous system for registering and maintaining domain names of the .it Registry uses the protocol EPP (Extensible Provisioning Protocol) to comply with internationally accepted standards and to comply with decisions already made by other ccTLDs and gTLDs. EPP is a synchronous client-server protocol based on XML