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After processing your operation the Automaton will automatically respond with an email. The response you receive will vary on two factors: the operation you submitted and whether your operation was successful.

These are the possible responses from the Automaton:




Create confirmation

Subject: automaton-example.co.uk ACCEPTED

THIS IS AN AUTOMATED MESSAGE. PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE.

We (Nominet UK) are sending you (the applicant or the applicant's agent as
the case may be) this email to inform you that we have accepted your
application for the domain name

automaton-example.co.uk

.. under our terms and conditions. You can find our terms and
conditions at:

http://www.nominet.org.uk/go/terms

If you are an applicant's agent, you are reminded of your obligation to
inform the applicant of this message and of our full terms and conditions,
and of our understanding that you have the applicant's full authority to
agree to such terms on the applicant's behalf.

The following identifiers were created as part of your registration:
Account: S10001
Main Admin Contact (Collin J. West) : C10002
Additional Admin Contact (Connie B. Elliott) : C10003
Additional Admin Contact (Lucas C. Smith) : C10004

Thank you.

Regards

Nominet

Notes

  1. The domain name automaton-example.co.uk is an example and will be replaced by the domain name you registered.
  2. The account-id S10001 is an example.  It will be replaced with the account-id of an account object if one was created as part of your registration.
  3. The adminsitrative contact names Collin J. West, Connie B. Elliott and Lucas C. Smith plus their coresponding contact-ids C10002, C10003 and C10004 are examples.  These will be replaced with the name and contact-id of any contact objects that were created as part of your registration.
  4. The number of contacts and nameservers objects listed in the response will vary depending on the number of objects that were created as part of your registration.



Delete confirmation

Subject: Re: ACK TAG Delete

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 line will be replaced by your TAG.
  2. The domain name automaton-example.co.uk is an example and will be replaced by the domain name you deleted.



Fatal error response

Subject: Re: ERROR

[Received_subject] The following error occurred while
processing your DNS auto delegation

[Error_code Error_message]

If you have any questions please contact nominet@nominet.org.uk.

Documentation on the automaton can be found on the Nominet UK Web
site at http://www.nic.uk/

Your original message follows
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[Original_message]

Notes

  1. [Received_subject] is replaced with the subject of the original operation.
  2. [Error_code Error_message] is one of the fatal error codes.
  3. [Original_message] is a complete copy of the message that caused the error.



Fork confirmation

Subject: Re: ACK TAG Fork

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 following identifiers were created as part of your Fork:
Account:
Main Admin Contact: ..
...

Regards
Nominet

Your original message follows
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
operation: fork
...

  1. The TAG in the subject line will be replaced by your TAG.



List response

Domain Name List follows...

Domain name|reg-status|registrar-tag|created|changed|expiry|first-bill|recur-bill|auto-bill|next-bill|dns0|dns1|dns2|dns3|dns4|dns5|dns6|dns7|dns8|dns9|account-id|account-name


Number of domains in the list: [Number].

If you have any questions please contact support@nominet.org.uk.

Documentation on the automaton can be found on the Nominet Web site
at http://www.nominet.org.uk/go/automaton


Notes:

  1. There are no line breaks in the data fields in the actual reply.  These are only shown here for illustrative purposes.  In the actual message the data for each domain is on one line.  There is one line of data for each domain.
  2. All dates are in the format YYYYMMDD.
  3. [Number] is replaced with the correct number for the number of domains returned.
  4. All new line characters are replaced with '^'.
  5. The maximum outgoing message size the Automaton can send is limited to 250MB.  This equates to a list message of approximately 500,000 domains.
  6. The registrar-tag field will be ips-key and account-name registrant if you have the backwards compatibility option switched on.



List-all response

Domain Name List follows...

Domain name|reg-status|registrar-tag|created|changed|expiry|first-bill|recur-bill|auto-bill|next-bill|dns0|dns1|dns2|dns3|dns4|dns5|dns6|dns7|dns8|dns9|account-id|account-name|trad-name|type|co-no|opt-out|addr|locality|city|county|postcode|country|a1-id|a1-name|a1-email|a1-phone|a1-mobile|a2-id|a2-name|a2-email|a2-phone|a2-mobile|a3-id|a3-name|a3-email|a3-phone|a3-mobile


Number of domains in the list: [Number].

If you have any questions please contact support@nominet.org.uk.

Documentation on the automaton can be found on the Nominet Web site
at http://www.nominet.org.uk/go/automaton


Notes:

  1. There are no line breaks in the data fields in the actual reply.  These are only shown here for illustrative purposes.  In the actual message the data for each domain is on one line.  There is one line of data for each domain.
  2. All dates are in the format YYYYMMDD.
  3. [Number] is replaced with the correct number for the number of domains returned.
  4. All new line characters are replaced with '^'.
  5. The maximum outgoing message size the Automaton can send is limited to 250MB.  This equates to a list message of approximately 500,000 domains.
  6. The registrar-tag field will be ips-key and account-name registrant if you have the backwards compatibility option switched on.



Lock domain confirmation

Subject: Re: TAG Domain Lock

The following message was sent from the Automaton:

Domain 'automaton-example.co.uk' has been locked, type: 'investigation'.

If you have any questions please contact support@nominet.org.uk.

Documentation on the automaton can be found on the Nominet Web
site at http://www.nominet.org.uk/go/automaton

Notes

  1. The TAG in the subject line will be replaced by your TAG.
  2. The domain name automaton-example.co.uk is an example and will be replaced by the domain name you locked.



Lock account confirmation

Subject: Re: TAG Account Lock

The following message was sent from the Automaton:

Account 100236 has been locked, type: 'investigation'.

If you have any questions please contact support@nominet.org.uk.

Documentation on the automaton can be found on the Nominet Web
site at http://www.nominet.org.uk/go/automaton

Notes

  1. The TAG in the subject line will be replaced by your TAG.
  2. The account-id 100236 is an example and will be replaced by account you locked.
  3. The type may be 'investigation' or 'opt-out' depending upon the lock type requested.



Merge confirmation

Subject: Re: ACK TAG Merge

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.

Regards

Nominet

Your original message follows
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
operation: merge
...

Notes

  1. The TAG in the subject line will be replaced by your TAG.



Modify domain confirmation

Subject: Re: ACK TAG Modify

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

The following identifiers were created as part of your Modify:
Additional Admin Contact (A. Green) : C10003

Regards

Nominet

Notes

  1. The TAG in the subject line will be replaced by your TAG.
  2. The identifier creation section appears only when new contacts are added.



Modify account confirmation

Subject: Re: ACK TAG Account Modify

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 application to modify the account object with id xxxxxx below
has been processed successfully.

Regards

Nominet

Your original message follows
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
....

Notes

  1. The TAG in the subject line will be replaced by your TAG.
  2. The identifier creation section appears only when new nameservers or contacts are added.



Modify contact confirmation

Subject: Re: ACK TAG Contact Modify

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 application to modify the contact object with id Cxxxxxx below
has been processed successfully.

Regards

Nominet

Your original message follows
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
....

Notes

  1. The TAG in the subject line will be replaced by your TAG.



Modify nameserver confirmation

Subject: Re: ACK TAG Nameserver Modify

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 application to modify the nameserver object with name <<name before>> below
has been processed successfully.

Regards

Nominet

Your original message follows
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
....

Notes

  1. The TAG in the subject line will be replaced by your TAG.



Non-fatal error response

Note that the following NON-FATAL errors occurred
during the processing of the request

Text outside of the PGP armoury was ignored

Notes

  1. If a non-fatal error occurs then a section will be appended to the reply template below explaining what these errors were.



Query domain response

Subject: Re: TAG Query

The following message was sent from the Automaton:

*key:
*reg-status:
*dns:
*dns:
*registrar-tag:
*account-id:
*account-name:
*type:
*co-no:
*trad-name:
*opt-out:
*a1-id:
*a1-name:
*a1-email:
*a1-phone:
*a1-mobile:
*a2-id:
*a2-name:
*a2-email:
*a2-phone:
*a2-mobile:
*a3-id:
*a3-name:
*a3-email:
*a3-phone:
*a3-mobile:
*addr:
*addr:
*locality:
*city:
*county:
*postcode:
*country:
*next_bill:
*auto_bill:
*notes:
*created:
*changed:
*expiry:
*reseller:

If you have any questions please contact support@nominet.org.uk.

Documentation on the automaton can be found on the Nominet Web
site at http://www.nominet.org.uk/go/automaton

Notes

  1. TAG in the subject line is replaced with your tag.
  2. Blank fields are not included, they are all shown here for illustrative purposes.
  3. Different field names may be returned if backwards compatibility is enabled in your registry options, depricated field names can be found on our field definitions page.
  4. DNS entries are not stored in a particular order.



Query account response

Subject: Re: TAG Account Query

The following message was sent from the Automaton:

*account-id:
*account-name:
*type:
*co-no:
*trad-name:
*opt-out:
*a1-id:
*a1-name:
*a1-email:
*a1-phone:
*a1-mobile:
*a2-id:
*a2-name:
*a2-email:
*a2-phone:
*a2-mobile:
*a3-id:
*a3-name:
*a3-email:
*a3-phone:
*a3-mobile:
*addr:
*addr:
*locality:
*city:
*county:
*postcode:
*country:
*created:
*changed:

If you have any questions please contact support@nominet.org.uk.

Documentation on the automaton can be found on the Nominet Web
site at http://www.nominet.org.uk/go/automaton

Notes

  1. TAG in the subject line is replaced with your tag.
  2. Blank fields are not included, they are all shown here for illustrative purposes.
  3. Different field names may be returned if backwards compatibility is enabled in your registry options, depricated field names can be found on our field definitions page.



Query contact response

Subject: Re: TAG Contact Query

The following message was sent from the Automaton:

*contact-id:
*name:
*email:
*phone:
*mobile:
*changed:

If you have any questions please contact support@nominet.org.uk.

Documentation on the automaton can be found on the Nominet Web
site at http://www.nominet.org.uk/go/automaton

Notes

  1. TAG in the subject line is replaced with your tag.
  2. Blank fields are not included, they are all shown here for illustrative purposes.



Query nameserver response

Subject: Re: TAG Nameserver Query

The following message was sent from the Automaton:

*dns:
*created:
*changed:

If you have any questions please contact support@nominet.org.uk.

Documentation on the automaton can be found on the Nominet Web
site at http://www.nominet.org.uk/go/automaton

Notes

  1. TAG in the subject line is replaced with your tag.
  2. Blank fields are not included, they are all shown here for illustrative purposes.



Receive accept confirmation

Your request to accept Registrar Change case 1001 has been successfully
processed.

The Registrar Change is for the following n domain names:

    automaton-test1.co.uk
    automaton-test2.co.uk
...
    automaton-testn.co.uk

If the Registrar Change is successfully processed then you will shortly
receive a notification of this.

If you have any questions regarding this message, please send an e-mail to

support@nominet.org.uk

Regards

Nominet

Notes

  1. TAG in the subject line is replaced with your tag.



Receive reject confirmation

Your request to reject Registrar Change case 1002 has been successfully
processed.

The Registrar Change is for the following n domain names:

    automaton-test1.co.uk
    automaton-test2.co.uk
...
    automaton-testn.co.uk

If you have any questions regarding this message, please send an e-mail to

support@nominet.org.uk

Regards

Nominet

Notes

  1. TAG in the subject line is replaced with your tag.



Release confirmation

Subject: Re: ACK TAG Release

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. TAG in the subject line is replaced with your tag.



Release with handshake confirmation

Subject: Re: ACK TAG Release - handshake requested

The following message was sent from the Automaton:

Your request for a registrar change has resulted in a handshake
request to the receiving tag. The receiving tag has up to 5 days to respond, after
which the request will be expired. You will be notified of the success or
failure of the registrar change by email.

If you have any questions please contact support@nominet.org.uk.

Documentation on the automaton can be found on the Nominet Web
site at http://www.nominet.org.uk/go/automaton

Notes

  1. TAG in the subject line is replaced with your tag.



Renew confirmation

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. TAG in the subject line is replaced with your tag.



Unlock domain confirmation

Subject: Re: TAG Domain Unlock

The following message was sent from the Automaton:

Domain 'automaton-example' has been unlocked, type: 'investigation'.

If you have any questions please contact support@nominet.org.uk.

Documentation on the automaton can be found on the Nominet Web
site at http://www.nominet.org.uk/go/automaton

Notes

  1. TAG in the subject line is replaced with your tag.



Unlock account confirmation

Subject: Re: TAG Account Unlock

The following message was sent from the Automaton:

Account 100042 has been unlocked, type: 'investigation'.

If you have any questions please contact support@nominet.org.uk.

Documentation on the automaton can be found on the Nominet Web
site at http://www.nominet.org.uk/go/automaton

Notes

  1. TAG in the subject line is replaced with your tag.
  2. The type may be 'investigation' or 'opt-out'.



Unrenew confirmation

Subject: Re: ACK TAG Unrenew

THIS IS AN AUTOMATED MESSAGE. PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE.

The following message was sent from the Automaton:

Your message has been processed by the UK NIC automated DNS
delegation system. Please be informed of the following changed expiry dates:

Expiry date for domain test-automaton.co.uk: 20081120
Expiry date for domain test-automaton2.co.uk: 20081120

If you have any questions regarding this message, please send an e-mail to

support@nominet.org.uk

Regards

Nominet

Notes

  1. TAG in the subject line is replaced with your tag.
 
 
 

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