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27 Registration Life Cycle

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27. Registration Life Cycle
27.1. Overview
The Applicant defines the life cycle of the domain names under ʺ.STRINGʺ based on IETF RFCs required by ICANN and its own business needs. The life cycle consists of 6 periods: Available, Registered, Autorenew Period, Redemption Grace Period and Pending Delete.
A domain name upon creation officially takes effect and enters the Registered period (the EPP status is serverTransferProhibited for the first 60 days, afterwards, it changes to ok; the RGP status is addPeriod for the first 5 days and then changes to N⁄A ). It takes no more than 3 days for a domain to be manually examined after creation.
Please refer to Figure 27-1 in Q27_attachment for the full life cycle of a domain name, covering the periods such as creation, taking effect, expiry and final deletion.
27.2. Registration Life Cycle and Status
There are totally 18 registration statuses defined for EPP in RFCs 5730~5734 and for RGP in RFC 3915, excluding those that can be set by Registrars, such as clientDeleteProhibited, clientHold, clientRenewProhibited, clientTransferProhibited, and clientUpdateProhibited).
The EPP statuses include OK, inactive, pendingCreate, pendingDelete, pendingRenew, pendingTransfer, -serverHold, serverDeleteProhibited, serverRenewProhibited, serverTransferProhibited, and serverUpdateProhibited.
The RGP statuses defined in RFC 3915 include addPeriod, autoRenewPeriod, renewPeriod, redemptionPeriod, transferPeriod, pendingRestore, and pendingDelete.
27.2.1. Transition of Registration Status
During the whole registration life cycle, the registration status of the domain name evolves as a result of the life cycle period changes and the operations performed. Please refer to Figure 27-2 in Q27_attachmentfor the registration status transition in creation and deletion period of life cycle.
Other operations may affect registration status transition in the life cycle as follows:
a) Update Operation
The Update operation may only be performed on a domain name that is in the Registered period. After the operation, the RGP and EPP status remains unchanged.

b) Renewal Operation
The Renewal operation may be performed on a domain name that is in either the Registered or the Auto-renew period.
When a domain name enters the Registered period, the EPP status is changed to pendingRenew (the previous status is ok) or is added with pendingRenew. After the operation Renewal is done, the EPP status changes back to the previous one. The RGP status changes to renewPeriod; it will change back to its previous status 5 days later.
When a domain name enters the Auto-renew period, the EPP status changes to ok, and the RGP status changes to autoRenewPeriod; it will changes back to ʺN⁄Aʺ 5 days later.
c) Transfer Operation
The operation Transfer may only be performed on a domain name that is in the Registered period and has been registered for more than 60 days. After the operation is performed, the EPP status changes to pendingTransfer; it will change back to its previous status once the transfer is complete. The RGP status changes to transferPeriod; it will changes back to its previous status 5 days later.
d) Restore Operation
The operation Restore may only be performed on a domain name that is in the Redemption Grace Period. Once the Registrar submits a restore request, the RGP status of the domain name changes to pendingRestore; if a formal restoration report is submitted within 7 days, the domain name changes back to its normal registration status (EPP: ok; RGP: N⁄A), otherwise, the registration status of the domain name changes back to the previous one.
27.2.2. Description of Status Transition
For each life cycle period of a domain name, the registration status transition is listed as below:
a) serverHold: all operations on a domain name are forbidden and the domain name canʹt be normally resolved.
In the Registered Period, if the Registry receives any complaint about that domain name, it will set the domain nameʹs EPP status to serverHold. If relevant competent authority confirms that the domain name is being abused or engaged in fraud, the domain nameʹs EPP and RGP statuses will be set to pendingDelete and the domain name will be transitioned to the Pending Delete period. Otherwise, the Registry will restore the domain nameʹs EPP status to ok and reset the RGP status to ʺN⁄Aʺ.
b) serverTransferProhibited: the domain name may be renewed, modified or deleted but not transferred.
When a domain name is in the Registered period, the EPP status for the first 60 days is serverTransferProhibited. If the Registrar renews this domain name, its EPP status remains unchanged and the RGP status is added with renewPeriod which will be cancelled 5 days later. If the Registrar deletes the domain name, both the EPP status and the RGP status change to pendingDelete.
When a domain name is in Autorenew Period, the EPP status is serverTransferProhibited and serverUpdateProhibited, and the RGP status is autoRenewPeriod. After 45 days, if the Registrar doesnʹt make a deletion request, the EPP status changes to ok and the RGP status is cancelled; if the Registrar does make a deletion request within the 45 days or its account balance is not enough for autorenewal, the EPP status changes to pendingDelete and the RGP status changes to redemptionPeriod. If the Registrar makes a renewal request within the redemption period, the EPP status changes to ok and the RGP status changes to renewPeriod and will be cancelled 5 days later.
c) serverUpdateProhibied: a domain name may be renewed, transferred or deleted but not updated.
When a domain name is in the Autorenew Period, the EPP status is serverUpdateProhibited and serverTransferProhibited, and the RGP status is autoRenewPeriod. If the Registrar doesnʹt make a deletion request within 45 days, the EPP status changes to ok and the RGP status is cancelled. If the Registrar does make a deletion request within 45 days or its account balance is not enough for autorenewal, the EPP status changes to pendingDelete and the RGP status changes to redemptionPeriod. If the Registrar makes a renewal request within the redemption period, the EPP status changes to ok and the RGP status changes to renewPeriod, which will be cancelled after 5 days.
d) serverRenewProhibited: a domain name may be updated, transferred or deleted but not renewed.
e) ok: a domain name may be updated, renewed, transferred and deleted.
If the Registrar makes a transfer request, the EPP status changes to pendingTransfer,; it will change back to ok after the transfer operation is complete. The RGP status is set to transferPeriod that will last for 5 days.
If the Registrar makes a deletion request, the EPP status changes to pendingDelete and the RGP status is set to pendingDelete.
If there is any complaint about the improper use of the domain name, the EPP status changes to serverHold. If the domain name is confirmed to be free from any abuse or fraud, the EPP status changes back to ok; otherwise, both EPP and RGP statuses change to pendingDelete.
f) inactive: within this status, the domain name is not associated with a host and thus canʹt be resolved.
If the Registrar submits a deletion request, the EPP status changes to pendingDelete and the RGP status changes to pendingDelete.
If the Registrar submits an update request to associate the domain name with a host, the EPP status changes to ok.
g) pendingDelete: with this status, the domain name can neither be resolved, nor can it be updated or transferred.
If a domain name is in the Registered period or its EPP status is inactive or serverHold when the deletion operation is being performed, the EPP status changes to pendingDelete. The RGP status is set to pendingDelete. The domain name will be deleted after 5 days.
If a domain name is in the Autorenew Period when the deletion operation is being performed, the EPP status changes to pendingDelete, and the RGP status is set to redemptionPeriod.
h) pendingTransfer: this status indicates that the domain transfer request has been accepted. With this status, no update, renew, or delete operation can be performed on the domain name although the domain name is resolvable in DNS. After the transfer is complete, the EPP status changes back to its previous status. The RGP status is set to transferPeriod, which will be cancelled after 5 days.
i) addPeriod: the RGP status is set to addPeriod for the first 5 days after a domain name enters the Registered period. After 5 days, the RGP status is cancelled. If the Registrar deletes the domain name within 5 days, registration fees will be refunded.
j) renewPeriod: when a domain renewal request is submitted, the RGP status changes to renewPeriod of 5 days. After 5 days, the RGP status changes back to its previous one. If the Registrar deletes the domain name within 5 days, registration fees will be refunded.
k) transferPeriod: when a domain name transfer request is submitted, the RGP status changes to transferPeriod of 5 days. After 5 days, the RGP status changes back to its previous one. If the Registrar deletes the domain name within 5 days, fees resulting from transfer will be refunded.
l) autoRenewPeriod: the RGP status of a domain name when it is in the Autorenew period. If the Registrarʹs account has enough money for renewal after the domain expires, the RGP status changes to autoRenewPeriod and the domain name will be automatically renewed for 1 year. The Autorenew period lasts for 45 days. If the Registrar doesnʹt delete the domain name or does perform the renewal operation after 45 days, the domain name returns to the Registered period and the RGP status is cancelled; otherwise the RGP status changes to redemptionPeriod.
m) redemptionPeriod: the RGP status of a domain when it is in the Redemption period. If the Registrar submits a restore request, the RGP status changes to pendingRestore, otherwise, it changes to pendingDelete after 30 days.
n) pendingRestore: an intermediate status only applicable to domain names in the Redemption period of a domain name. When a domain name is in the Redemption period, if the Registrar submits a restore request to the Registry within 30 days, the RGP status changes to pendingRestore. If the Registrar submits a formal restore request report to the Registry within the subsequent 7 days, the EPP status changes to ok and the RGP status is cancelled; otherwise the RGP status changes back to redemptionPeriod. If the Registrar doesnʹt perform any restore and⁄or renewal operations within 30 days, the RGP status changes to pendingDelete.
o) pendingRenew, pendingUpdate: these two statuses are not applicable. The renewal and update of ʺ.STRINGʺ are performed in real time, so there is no manual review or the third partyʹs verification.
27.3. Compliance with RFCs
Taking the local policies and laws as well as its own businesses needs into account, the Applicant makes some extension for the registration life cycle of the domain name based on RFCs 5730~5734 and RFC 3915.
27.4. Consistency
27.4.1. Commitment to Registrant
The Registry Operator signs agreements with Registrants via the Registrars. These agreements strictly follow the policies of registration life cycle and provide management functions for domain names as directed by ICANNʹs requirements, agreements and regulations.
27.4.2. Technical Plan
For SRS, the EPP status can be used to determine whether a domain name can be updated, renewed, transferred or deleted, etc. The SRS fully supports redemption grace period operations defined in the RFC 3915 using the RGP status;
For DNS, the EPP status of a domain name is needed to determine whether the domain name is deployed in the root DNS zone file. It is also used to decide whether DNS service will be provided to the domain name.
For Whois, the EPP and RGP statuses of a domain name will be shown to the user in the query results.
27.5. Resourcing Plan
Please refer to Table 27-1 in Q27_attachment for the resourcing plan.
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27. Registration Life Cycle
27.1. Overview
The Applicant defines the life cycle of the domain names under ʺ.STRINGʺ based on IETF RFCs required by ICANN and its own business needs. The life cycle consists of 6 periods: Available, Registered, Autorenew Period, Redemption Grace Period and Pending Delete.
A domain name upon creation officially takes effect and enters the Registered period (the EPP status is serverTransferProhibited for the first 60 days, afterwards, it changes to ok; the RGP status is addPeriod for the first 5 days and then changes to N⁄A ). It takes no more than 3 days for a domain to be manually examined after creation.
Please refer to Figure 27-1 in Q27_attachment for the full life cycle of a domain name, covering the periods such as creation, taking effect, expiry and final deletion.
27.2. Registration Life Cycle and Status
There are totally 18 registration statuses defined for EPP in RFCs 5730~5734 and for RGP in RFC 3915, excluding those that can be set by Registrars, such as clientDeleteProhibited, clientHold, clientRenewProhibited, clientTransferProhibited, and clientUpdateProhibited).
The EPP statuses include OK, inactive, pendingCreate, pendingDelete, pendingRenew, pendingTransfer, -serverHold, serverDeleteProhibited, serverRenewProhibited, serverTransferProhibited, and serverUpdateProhibited.
The RGP statuses defined in RFC 3915 include addPeriod, autoRenewPeriod, renewPeriod, redemptionPeriod, transferPeriod, pendingRestore, and pendingDelete.
27.2.1. Transition of Registration Status
During the whole registration life cycle, the registration status of the domain name evolves as a result of the life cycle period changes and the operations performed. Please refer to Figure 27-2 in Q27_attachmentfor the registration status transition in creation and deletion period of life cycle.
Other operations may affect registration status transition in the life cycle as follows:
a) Update Operation
The Update operation may only be performed on a domain name that is in the Registered period. After the operation, the RGP and EPP status remains unchanged.

b) Renewal Operation
The Renewal operation may be performed on a domain name that is in either the Registered or the Auto-renew period.
When a domain name enters the Registered period, the EPP status is changed to pendingRenew (the previous status is ok) or is added with pendingRenew. After the operation Renewal is done, the EPP status changes back to the previous one. The RGP status changes to renewPeriod; it will change back to its previous status 5 days later.
When a domain name enters the Auto-renew period, the EPP status changes to ok, and the RGP status changes to autoRenewPeriod; it will changes back to ʺN⁄Aʺ 5 days later.
c) Transfer Operation
The operation Transfer may only be performed on a domain name that is in the Registered period and has been registered for more than 60 days. After the operation is performed, the EPP status changes to pendingTransfer; it will change back to its previous status once the transfer is complete. The RGP status changes to transferPeriod; it will changes back to its previous status 5 days later.
d) Restore Operation
The operation Restore may only be performed on a domain name that is in the Redemption Grace Period. Once the Registrar submits a restore request, the RGP status of the domain name changes to pendingRestore; if a formal restoration report is submitted within 7 days, the domain name changes back to its normal registration status (EPP: ok; RGP: N⁄A), otherwise, the registration status of the domain name changes back to the previous one.
27.2.2. Description of Status Transition
For each life cycle period of a domain name, the registration status transition is listed as below:
a) serverHold: all operations on a domain name are forbidden and the domain name canʹt be normally resolved.
In the Registered Period, if the Registry receives any complaint about that domain name, it will set the domain nameʹs EPP status to serverHold. If relevant competent authority confirms that the domain name is being abused or engaged in fraud, the domain nameʹs EPP and RGP statuses will be set to pendingDelete and the domain name will be transitioned to the Pending Delete period. Otherwise, the Registry will restore the domain nameʹs EPP status to ok and reset the RGP status to ʺN⁄Aʺ.
b) serverTransferProhibited: the domain name may be renewed, modified or deleted but not transferred.
When a domain name is in the Registered period, the EPP status for the first 60 days is serverTransferProhibited. If the Registrar renews this domain name, its EPP status remains unchanged and the RGP status is added with renewPeriod which will be cancelled 5 days later. If the Registrar deletes the domain name, both the EPP status and the RGP status change to pendingDelete.
When a domain name is in Autorenew Period, the EPP status is serverTransferProhibited and serverUpdateProhibited, and the RGP status is autoRenewPeriod. After 45 days, if the Registrar doesnʹt make a deletion request, the EPP status changes to ok and the RGP status is cancelled; if the Registrar does make a deletion request within the 45 days or its account balance is not enough for autorenewal, the EPP status changes to pendingDelete and the RGP status changes to redemptionPeriod. If the Registrar makes a renewal request within the redemption period, the EPP status changes to ok and the RGP status changes to renewPeriod and will be cancelled 5 days later.
c) serverUpdateProhibied: a domain name may be renewed, transferred or deleted but not updated.
When a domain name is in the Autorenew Period, the EPP status is serverUpdateProhibited and serverTransferProhibited, and the RGP status is autoRenewPeriod. If the Registrar doesnʹt make a deletion request within 45 days, the EPP status changes to ok and the RGP status is cancelled. If the Registrar does make a deletion request within 45 days or its account balance is not enough for autorenewal, the EPP status changes to pendingDelete and the RGP status changes to redemptionPeriod. If the Registrar makes a renewal request within the redemption period, the EPP status changes to ok and the RGP status changes to renewPeriod, which will be cancelled after 5 days.
d) serverRenewProhibited: a domain name may be updated, transferred or deleted but not renewed.
e) ok: a domain name may be updated, renewed, transferred and deleted.
If the Registrar makes a transfer request, the EPP status changes to pendingTransfer,; it will change back to ok after the transfer operation is complete. The RGP status is set to transferPeriod that will last for 5 days.
If the Registrar makes a deletion request, the EPP status changes to pendingDelete and the RGP status is set to pendingDelete.
If there is any complaint about the improper use of the domain name, the EPP status changes to serverHold. If the domain name is confirmed to be free from any abuse or fraud, the EPP status changes back to ok; otherwise, both EPP and RGP statuses change to pendingDelete.
f) inactive: within this status, the domain name is not associated with a host and thus canʹt be resolved.
If the Registrar submits a deletion request, the EPP status changes to pendingDelete and the RGP status changes to pendingDelete.
If the Registrar submits an update request to associate the domain name with a host, the EPP status changes to ok.
g) pendingDelete: with this status, the domain name can neither be resolved, nor can it be updated or transferred.
If a domain name is in the Registered period or its EPP status is inactive or serverHold when the deletion operation is being performed, the EPP status changes to pendingDelete. The RGP status is set to pendingDelete. The domain name will be deleted after 5 days.
If a domain name is in the Autorenew Period when the deletion operation is being performed, the EPP status changes to pendingDelete, and the RGP status is set to redemptionPeriod.
h) pendingTransfer: this status indicates that the domain transfer request has been accepted. With this status, no update, renew, or delete operation can be performed on the domain name although the domain name is resolvable in DNS. After the transfer is complete, the EPP status changes back to its previous status. The RGP status is set to transferPeriod, which will be cancelled after 5 days.
i) addPeriod: the RGP status is set to addPeriod for the first 5 days after a domain name enters the Registered period. After 5 days, the RGP status is cancelled. If the Registrar deletes the domain name within 5 days, registration fees will be refunded.
j) renewPeriod: when a domain renewal request is submitted, the RGP status changes to renewPeriod of 5 days. After 5 days, the RGP status changes back to its previous one. If the Registrar deletes the domain name within 5 days, registration fees will be refunded.
k) transferPeriod: when a domain name transfer request is submitted, the RGP status changes to transferPeriod of 5 days. After 5 days, the RGP status changes back to its previous one. If the Registrar deletes the domain name within 5 days, fees resulting from transfer will be refunded.
l) autoRenewPeriod: the RGP status of a domain name when it is in the Autorenew period. If the Registrarʹs account has enough money for renewal after the domain expires, the RGP status changes to autoRenewPeriod and the domain name will be automatically renewed for 1 year. The Autorenew period lasts for 45 days. If the Registrar doesnʹt delete the domain name or does perform the renewal operation after 45 days, the domain name returns to the Registered period and the RGP status is cancelled; otherwise the RGP status changes to redemptionPeriod.
m) redemptionPeriod: the RGP status of a domain when it is in the Redemption period. If the Registrar submits a restore request, the RGP status changes to pendingRestore, otherwise, it changes to pendingDelete after 30 days.
n) pendingRestore: an intermediate status only applicable to domain names in the Redemption period of a domain name. When a domain name is in the Redemption period, if the Registrar submits a restore request to the Registry within 30 days, the RGP status changes to pendingRestore. If the Registrar submits a formal restore request report to the Registry within the subsequent 7 days, the EPP status changes to ok and the RGP status is cancelled; otherwise the RGP status changes back to redemptionPeriod. If the Registrar doesnʹt perform any restore and⁄or renewal operations within 30 days, the RGP status changes to pendingDelete.
o) pendingRenew, pendingUpdate: these two statuses are not applicable. The renewal and update of ʺ.STRINGʺ are performed in real time, so there is no manual review or the third partyʹs verification.
27.3. Compliance with RFCs
Taking the local policies and laws as well as its own businesses needs into account, the Applicant makes some extension for the registration life cycle of the domain name based on RFCs 5730~5734 and RFC 3915.
27.4. Consistency
27.4.1. Commitment to Registrant
The Registry Operator signs agreements with Registrants via the Registrars. These agreements strictly follow the policies of registration life cycle and provide management functions for domain names as directed by ICANNʹs requirements, agreements and regulations.
27.4.2. Technical Plan
For SRS, the EPP status can be used to determine whether a domain name can be updated, renewed, transferred or deleted, etc. The SRS fully supports redemption grace period operations defined in the RFC 3915 using the RGP status;
For DNS, the EPP status of a domain name is needed to determine whether the domain name is deployed in the root DNS zone file. It is also used to decide whether DNS service will be provided to the domain name.
For Whois, the EPP and RGP statuses of a domain name will be shown to the user in the query results.
27.5. Resourcing Plan
Please refer to Table 27-1 in Q27_attachment for the resourcing plan.