Norid registry system upgrade 2012-01-31

Norid will upgrade its registry system Tuesday 31 January from 09:00 to 10:00 local time. The upgrade will add support for the newly announced procedures for paper-less domain deletion and holder change.

The most significant changes to the system are:

• Support for domain delete and domain transfer commands without accompanying paperwork.
• The time when domains are automatically renewed, and possibly processes for the phasing out of non-renewed domains are started, will be moved forward one day (24 hours). This will reduce the length of time a domain will exist as non-autorenewed past its expiry date.
• Allow use of secondary e-mail addresses in transfer-init commands.
• Change ticket processing so that DNS checks are only run once per ticket, even if the ticket is paused for manual consideration.
• Changes to the registrar web
  • Updates to the registrar technical contact shall no longer affect the postal address information for the legal or billing contacts.
  • Add support for per-registrars lists of domains that no longer have a valid registrant.
  • All daily whois dumps should now use correct character sets.
  • Add the registrant handle to the domain listing
• The whois server again shows the organization affiliations for person lookups.
• A selection of minor changes to various e-mail messages and letter texts.

Norwegian version.