Become a .name Registrar

Establish an Account

To establish an account with VeriSign, mail all required forms and supporting documentation to:
VeriSign, Inc.
Attention: Customer Affairs Office
21345 Ridgetop Circle, 4th Floor
Dulles, VA 20166
USA
NOTE: All supporting documentation must be provided in English.

Please send 2 original, signed copies of .name Registry-Registrar Agreement (DOC). Be certain to use your company’s ICANN-accredited and legally registered name, place of incorporation, and principal place of business. All required fields should be completed before the agreements are executed and mailed to VeriSign.

Please complete the .name Registrar Data Form (DOC) and submit the information to establish your account. Your business information must match your ICANN-accreditation information. You will also need the following technical information: Web server name, Whois server name, SSL Common Name, and no more than three subnets in Classless Inter-Domain Routing Protocol (CIDR) format, up to a total of 96 hosts (/26 = 64 hosts, /27 = 32 hosts, /28 = 16 hosts, /29 = 8 hosts, /30 = 4 hosts, /31 = 2 hosts, /32 = 1 host).

Please complete and return the FCPA form to certify that the registrar will comply with the applicable laws and requirements under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

If you are not a .com or .net registrar and have not completed the Become a .com, .net Registrar process, VeriSign requires copies of corporate formation documents to verify the legal entity with which VeriSign, Inc. is entering into a contract. The corporate name used on all forms must match the name used for ICANN accreditation.

Please complete and return the Fax Authorization Form (PDF) to receive user IDs and passwords via fax. An original signature is required.

Financial Requirements

Existing .com, .net registrars have already established a financial account with VeriSign and may use this account to support .name transactions. If you expect a considerable increase in your monthly transaction volume, you should re-evaluate the amount of your payment security and adjust it accordingly. New registrars are required to complete a credit application and establish a payment security based on expected monthly registration volume.
NOTE: You may start this process before you receive your user IDs and passwords.

To view details relating to VeriSign billing practices for .name, please download Billing Policy, Bank Details & Procedures (DOC). To view registration, renewal, and transfer pricing information for .name domain names, please download .name Pricing (PDF). (Password protected)

If you are not a .com, .net registrar, you need to establish a credit account with VeriSign. Please complete the .name Registrar Credit Application (DOC) with an original signature and mail it to:

VeriSign, Inc.
Attention: Customer Affairs Office
21345 Ridgetop Circle, 4th Floor
Dulles, VA 20166
USA

.name registrations x duration (1 to 10 years) x $6.00 = Minimum Payment Security
Registrars are required to increase the payment security when registration levels repeatedly exceed the current payment security.

The payment security is held without action unless invoices are not paid in accordance with the terms of the Registry-Registrar Agreements. Acceptable payment security vehicles include: cash deposit, an irrevocable standby letter of credit from a bank, or a payment security bond (PDF) from an approved surety or bank.

Remit payment to:
VeriSign, Inc.
PO Box #404326
Atlanta, GA 30384-4326
USA

Overnight Packages:
VeriSign, Inc.
Lockbox #404326
6000 Feldwood Road
College Park, GA 30349
USA

To wire payment to VeriSign, contact the Customer Affairs Office, cao@verisign-grs.com.

Technical Requirements

Registrars must demonstrate full and correct operation of client systems within the Operational Test and Evaluation (OT&E) environment before connecting to the Shared Registration System (SRS). You may begin development of your client applications before you receive your user IDs and passwords, but you will not be able to complete it until VeriSign has established your account.

VeriSign requires that each server that communicates with the SRS has a 40- or 128-bit SSL Certificate installed. You may obtain pre-approved SSL Certificates from VeriSign or thawte. To use a different certificate authority (CA), VeriSign will consider your request in accordance with the CA Consideration Procedure (Password protected).

To develop the client end to the SRS, you must access EPP software. VeriSign has developed EPP SDKs and guides to help you develop your client application.

If you choose to develop your own EPP implementation, it must be based on RFC-2832, the published protocol specification. You will need to acquire and incorporate an implementation of the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol into their EPP software. You will also need to secure a license for the use of RSA cryptographic algorithms through RSA Data Security, Inc.

You will receive your user IDs and passwords to the OT&E environment when VeriSign has established your account. Please log in to access the Technical Accreditation Guide v3.03 (PDF) and the Transfer Process for Second Level Domains (PDF). Your informational packet will include testing information to complete this process. When you are ready to demonstrate technical operation and qualify for access to the production SRS, contact VeriSign Customer Affairs Office. For assistance with testing, contact Customer Support.

Add Services

Once you become a certified registrar, VeriSign offers value-add services and other TLD registry services to help you grow your domain name business. These services and TLDs are easy to add to your account and start using today.

To add any of these services, please contact Customer Support at 703-925-6999 or info@verisign-grs.com.

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VeriSign® Domain Name Zone Alerts
Facilitate administration with real-time .com and .net zone file reports for the domain names under your management.

VeriSign® Domain Name Suggestion Service
Expose more relevant domain name search results to attract more registrations. Available in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and German.
ConsoliDate and Restore
Help your customers better manage their domain name renewals and retrieve expired domain names.

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