.VIP

.VIP
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Overview
Introduced	2016
Category	Identity & Lifestyle
Registry	Minds and Machines
IDN Capable	Yes
Dispute Policy	ICANN Rules
Webpage	[1]
Legal Information
Legal	TBA

Registrant Eligibility Requirements and Use

In order to be eligible to register (and continue to be a registrant of) a domain name in .VIP, the registrant must be a Qualified Lawyer. For the purposes of this Eligibility Policy, a Qualified Lawyer is a professional who is licensed to practice law by an approved regulator of legal services in a given jurisdiction.

A Qualified Lawyer must be identifiable as a currently licensed practitioner in the public records kept by the relevant approved regulator. Therefore, using a registrar proxy or privacy service or any other service having an equivalent effect are prohibited.

Required Information For Use (Domain Resolution) of an .VIP:

At the point of registration or shortly after registration, the following fields are required for .VIP domains to resolve. Without submission of these fields, .VIP domains can be registered but will not resolve on the Internet.

• The name of their Regulator
• The date of their registration with their Regulator
• The reference number of their registration with their Regulator
• The jurisdiction of their Regulator

Registry

TLD	-
Registry	-
Dispute Policy	-
Limitations	Registrant Contacts: Required: / Maximum: Admin Contacts: Required: / Maximum: Tech Contacts: Required: / Maximum: Billing Contacts: Required: / Maximum:
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Allowed number of NS	to

Periods

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API

Domain Registration

Domains can be registered with the API AddDomain command.

command = AddDomain
domain  = (DOMAIN)

REQUIRED

ownercontact0 = (CONTACT)
admincontact0 = (CONTACT)
techcontact0 = (CONTACT)
billingcontact0 = (CONTACT)
nameserver0 = (NAMESERVER)
nameserver1 = (NAMESERVER)
x-abogado-accept-highly-regulated-tac = 1
x-registrant-qualified-lawyer-accreditation-id = (ACCREDITATION-ID)
x-registrant-qualified-lawyer-accreditation-body = (ACCREDITATION-BODY)
x-registrant-qualified-lawyer-accreditation-year = (ACCREDITATION-YEAR)
x-registrant-qualified-lawyer-jurisdiction-cc = (COUNTRYCODE)
x-registrant-qualified-lawyer-jurisdiction-state = (STATE)

OPTIONAL

auth = (TEXT) | (NULL)
period = (PERIOD)
transferlock = 0 | 1 | (NULL)

Domain Transfer

There is a special procedure to handle a domain transfer. Please contact our Support-Team if you should need further information.

command = TransferDomain
domain = (DOMAIN)

REQUIRED

auth = (TEXT)
x-abogado-accept-highly-regulated-tac = 1

OPTIONAL

period = (PERIOD)
transferlock = 0 | 1 | (NULL)
action = REQUEST | APPROVE | DENY | CANCEL | USERTRANSFER

Delete Domain

Domains can be deleted with the API DeleteDomain command.
There is no Deletion Restorable Period.

command = DeleteDomain
domain = (DOMAIN)

Restore Domain

command = RestoreDomain
domain = (DOMAIN)

OPTIONAL

subuser = (TEXT)
renewalmode = (NULL) | (TEXT)

Ownerchange

command = ModifyDomain
domain = (DOMAIN)

REQUIRED

ownercontact0 = (CONTACT)
x-abogado-accept-highly-regulated-tac = 1

TLD specific

X-ABOGADO-ACCEPT-HIGHLY-REGULATED-TAC

X-ABOGADO-ACCEPT-HIGHLY-REGULATED-TAC=1: The confirmation that the registrant has read and agrees and is willing to be compliant with the additional terms and conditions for .Abogado.

Additionally the following information is required:
x-registrant-qualified-lawyer-accreditation-id = (ACCREDITATION-ID)
x-registrant-qualified-lawyer-accreditation-body = (ACCREDITATION-BODY)
x-registrant-qualified-lawyer-accreditation-year = (ACCREDITATION-YEAR)
x-registrant-qualified-lawyer-jurisdiction-cc = (COUNTRYCODE)
x-registrant-qualified-lawyer-jurisdiction-state = (STATE)

Authorization code

There are special requirements regarding the format of the authorization code. Please consider the following restrictions, if you want to assign a new authorization code to a domain:

• Minimum 8 characters
• having at least one (1) numeric,
• one (1) alphabetic, and
• one (1) special character

You may generate a valid random auth code by adding this parameter to the ModifyDomain command:

command = ModifyDomain
domain = (DOMAIN)

REQUIRED

generaterandomauth = 1

RegistrarOC

No special procedures.