usTLD Reserved Name Registration Process
The U. S.
Department of Commerce awarded Purchase Order No. SB1335-02-W-0175 (“the
contract”) to NeuStar, Inc. (“the Contractor”) for management of the .us
domain, the country-code top-level domain uniquely associated with the United
States. On April 24, 2002, the .us
domain was opened to the general public for registration. To preserve the U.S. Government presence in
the new expanded .us space, the Department of Commerce, working through the
Federal CIO Council among others, reserved second-level domain names that correspond
to the names used by the U.S. Government in the .gov space, as well as the
names of states and local governments.
The reservation list currently appears on the Contractor’s website at http://www.neustar.us.
This
document describes the process that the Contractor will use for registration of
these names by the appropriate entities.
This process is intended to provide a streamlined method for Federal,
State and Local government entities to obtain access to the reserved names.
Proposed Federal Reserved Name Registration Process
The Contractor
will serve as the registrar for all reserved name registrations. Registrations, modifications to
registrations, deletions and registration renewals all will be ordered through
a form-based registration and certification process. The Contractor will implement the following process:
Step
1: A pre-populated form will be sent by
electronic mail to each Federal government Central Information Officer
(CIO). This form will contain only
those names that correspond to the recipient’s agency or department. State and local government contacts will
receive either email, or direct mail notifications and a web address, which
they can go to for viewing their reserved names.
Step
2: In the case of the Federal Government, the
CIO will complete the electronic form, selecting the available reserved names
they wish to register along with the term of the registration (yearly or
lifetime) and method of payment (credit card).
State and local government points of contact will fill out a web form
and then mail it to a PO Box that the Contractor set up.
Step
3: The CIO will return the completed form by
e-mail within 90 days. State and local
government points of contact will have 120 days.
Step
4: Once the Contractor has received the
completed form and the appropriate payment, the names will be loaded into the
Contractor's Registry system and the registration point of contact will be
notified by email of the name registration(s).
The
reserved names will be released for general availability on the date to be
identified in the mailing described in Step 1.
Validated Domain Registration Process
The
.US Validated Domain Registration Process is detailed in the sections that
follow. The documents provided break
down the steps by type. Specifically,
what parts are handled by the systems that the Contractor built for standard
.BIZ and .US registrations as well as the manual processes required to complete
validation and order entry.
The
documents also detail the level of effort required to complete each step in the
registration process. In order to give
one an understanding of how the level of effort impacts the Contractor’s costs,
the incremental time by functional area are categorized for these out of manual
processes. This information was used to
derive the pricing that is provided in Appendix 3.
1.
Process
Flow
Appendix 1 contains two process flows. The first process flow details the steps
required to process a validated domain registration. The second process flow details the steps required to process a
fully automated domain registration. In
the first process flow the incremental level of effort to perform a validated
registration are listed.
2.
Process
Flow Description
Appendix 2 is the process flow description
document. This documents provides the
details of each step in the registration process as well as the functional
areas that are impacted.
3. Business Case & Price By Option:
Appendix 3 contains the pricing options for a
validated registration. The Contractor
factored into its standard registration business case all of the incremental
costs associated with the Validated Domain Registration Process. After capturing the incremental costs and
applying a reasonable margin, the Contractor arrived at what the cost per unit
needs to be for a Validated registration.
APPENDIX 1
VALIDATED
DOMAIN REGISTRATION PROCESS
