INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE US DOMAIN TEMPLATE [1/95] (Do not use this template for: COM, EDU, NET, ORG, GOV)* ****************************************************************************** To register a host in the US domain, the US Domain Template must be sent to the US Domain Registrar (US-Domain@ISI.EDU) or contact of a delegated zone. (See Application "Delegated Contact Information). Email: US-Domain@ISI.EDU Fax: 310-823-6714 Phone: 310-822-1511 To: US Domain Registrar USC/Information Sciences Institute 4676 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey, CA 90292 (1) PLEASE SPECIFY WHETHER THIS IS A NEW APPLICATION, MODIFICATION TO AN EXISTING REGISTRATION, OR DELETION. (2) THE NAME OF THE DOMAIN. This is the name that will be used in tables and lists associating the domain with the domain server addresses. =============================================================================== TABLE: US DOMAIN NAMING STRUCTURE =============================================================================== ...US = locality based names .CI...US = locality; city gov. agencies .CO...US = locality; county gov. agencies ..K12..US = kindergarten thru 12th grade other K12 entities .PVT.K12..US = private K thru 12th grade ...US = locality opt: for PVT schools .CC..US = community colleges .TEC..US = technical or vocational schools .LIB..US = libraries (CI, CO, State, PVT) .STATE..US = state government agencies .GEN..US = statewide assoc,clubs,BBs's .MUS..US = museums .COG..US = councils of governments .DST..US = regional agencies or districts not gov't & larger than city or county .FED.US = federal government agencies .DNI.US = distributed national institutes (research, educational, cultural) .ISA.US = interstate authority (joint gov't authorities - multistate) =============================================================================== Domain Name Example: networthy.santa-clara.ca.us ____________ *NOTE: For COM, EDU, NET, ORG, GOV, send requests to: Hostmaster@Internic.Net. All K12 schools, community colleges/technical schools, state and local gov't agencies are required to register under the US domain. (See RFC 1480 "The US Domain" and RFC 1591, "The Domain Name System Structure and Delegation" for further details). (3) THE NAME OF THE ENTITY REPRESENTED, THAT IS, ORGANIZATION BEING NAMED. For example: The Networthy Corporation, not the name of the Network Service Provider or organization submitting the request. (4) PLEASE DESCRIBE THE DOMAIN BRIEFLY. For example: The Networthy Corporation is a consulting organization of people working with UNIX and the C language in an electronic networking environment. It sponsors two technical conferences annually and distributes a bimonthly newsletter. (5) THE DATE YOU EXPECT THE DOMAIN TO BE FULLY OPERATIONAL. For every registration, we need both the administrative and the technical contacts of a domain (questions 6 & 7) and we MUST have a network mailbox for each. If you have a NIC handle (a unique NIC database identifier) please enter it. (If you don't know what a NIC handle is leave it blank). Also the title, mailing address, phone number, organization, and network mailbox. (6) THE NAME OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE HEAD OF THE "ORGANIZATION". The administrator is the contact point for administrative and policy questions about the domain. The Domain administrator should work closely with the personnel he has designated as the "technical contact" for his domain. In this example the Domain Administraror would be the Administrator of the Networty Corporation, not the Administrator of the organization running the nameserver (unless it is the same person). (7) THE NAME OF THE TECHNICAL AND ZONE CONTACT. The technical and zone contact handles the technical aspects of maintaining the domain's name server and resolver software, and database files. He keeps the name server running. More than likely, this person would be the technical contact running the primary nameserver. ************************************************************************** PLEASE READ: There are several types of registrations: (a) Delegation (i.e., a portion of the US Domain name space is given to an organization running nameservers to support that branch; For example, K12.TX.US, for all K12 schools in Texas). For (a) answer questions 8 and 9. (b) Direct Registration of an IP Host. For (b) answer question 10. (c) Direct Registration of a non-IP Host. For (c) answer question 11 and 12. ************************************************************************** QUESTIONS FOR DELEGATIONS (8) PRIMARY SERVER Information. It is required to supply both the Contact information as well as hardware/software information of the primary nameserver. (9)* SECONDARY SERVER Information. It is required to supply the hardware and software information of all secondary nameservers. Domains must provide at least two independent servers that provide the domain service for translating names to addresses for hosts in this domain. If you are applying for a domain and a network number assignment simultaneously and a host on your proposed network will be used as a server for the domain, you must wait until you receive your network number assigment and have given the server(s) a net-address before sending in the domain application. Establishing the servers in physically separate locations and on different PSNs and/or networks is strongly recommended. NOTE: For those applicants not able to run nameservers, or for non-IP hosts the Name Server information is not applicable. (See #10 and #11). ========================================================================= QUESTION FOR DIRECT IP HOSTS (If you answered 8&9 do not answer 10,11,12). ========================================================================= (10) WHAT DOMAIN NAME SYSTEM (DNS) RESOURCE RECORDS (RR) AND VALUES ARE TO BE ENTERED FOR YOUR IP HOST (MUST HAVE AN A RECORD). ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Example: RRs for an INTERNET hosts. (a) DOMAIN NAME (required)...: Networthy.Santa-Clara.CA.US. (b) IP ADDRESS (required)....: A 128.9.3.123 (c) HARDWARE (opt)...........: SUN-3/11O (d) OPERATING SYS (opt)......: UNIX (e) WKS (opt)................: 128.9.3.123. UDP (tftp) TCP (ftp) (f) MX (opt).................: 10 RELAY.ISI.EDU. It is your responsibility to see that an IN-ADDR pointer record is entered in the DNS database. (For internet hosts only). Contact the administrator of the IP network your host is on to have this done. The US Domain administration does not administer the network and cannot make these entries in the DNS database. ==================================================================== QUESTIONS FOR NON-IP HOSTS (such as UUCP). ==================================================================== Many applicants have hosts in the UUCP world. Some are one hop away, some two and three hops away from their "Internet Forwarder", this is acceptable. What is important is getting an Internet host to be your forwarder. If you do not already have an Internet forwarder, there are several businesses that provide this service for a fee, (see RFC 1359 - Connecting to the Internet What Connecting Institutions Should Anticipate, ACM SIGUCCS, August 1992). Sometimes local colleges in your area are already on the Internet and may be willing to act as an Internet Forwarder. You would need to work this out with the systems administrator. We cannot make these arrangements for you. (11) INTERNET FORWARDING HOST INFORMATION (11a) What is the name of your Internet forwarding host? For example: The host Yacht-Club.MDR.CA.US uses UUCP to connect to RELAY.ISI.EDU which is an Internet host. (i.e., RELAY.ISI.EDU is the forwarding host). (11b) What is the name of your contact person at fowarding host? The Administrator of RELAY.ISI.EDU must agree to be the forwarding host for Yacht-Club.MDR.CA.US, and the forwarding host must know a delivery method and route to Networthy. No double MXing. (11c) What is the mailbox of your contact? What is the mailbox of the administrator of the forwarding host. Example: Contact Name......: John Smith Contact Email.....: js@RELAY.ISI.EDU (12) WHAT DOMAIN NAME SYSTEM (DNS) RESOURCE RECORDS (RR) AND VALUES ARE TO BE ENTERED FOR YOUR NON-IP HOST. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Example: RRs for a NON-IP host (uucp). (a) DOMAIN NAME (required).....: Yacht-Club.MDR.CA.US. (b) HARDWARE (opt).............: SUN-3/11O (c) OPERATING SYS (opt)........: UNIX (d) MX (required)..............: 10 RELAY.ISI.EDU. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ PLEASE ALLOW AT LEAST 8 WORKING DAYS FOR PROCESSING THIS APPLICATION +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ US DOMAIN TEMPLATE [1/93] DO NOT USE FOR: COM, EDU, NET, ORG GOV* To register a US Domain name, please submit the following template to "US-DOMAIN@ISI.EDU". If you are registering in one of the delegated domains, please register directly with them. The instructions for obtatining the list of delegated subdomains and contacts follows: DIRECT REGISTRATIONS: Email: US-Domain@ISI.EDU Fax: 310-823-6714 Phone: 310-822-1511 US MAIL: US Domain Registrar USC/Information Sciences Institute 4676 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey, CA 90292 DELEGATED DOMAIN REGISTRATIONS: URL: ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/us-domain-delegated.txt FTP: FTP.ISI.EDU via anonymous ftp, in-notes/us-domain-delegated.txt E-MAIL: Send message To: RFC-INFO@ISI.EDU (include as only text in the message "Help: us_domain_delegated_domains"). COM, EDU, NET, ORG, GOV REGISTRATIONS: Email: Send requests to "Hostmaster@internic.Net" __________________ * NOTE: All K12 schools, community colleges/technical schools, state and local governmentt agencies are required to register under the US domain. Only four year universities are allowed to register under EDU and only federal agencies are allowed under GOV. (See RFC 1480, "The US Domain" and RFC 1591, "The Domain Name System Structure and Delegation" for details. ========================================================================== -2- Sections or fields of this form marked with an asterisk (*) may be duplicated. (For example, if you had two phone numbers for the Administrative Contact, you would use the same number "6h" twice. PLEASE DO NOT ALTER THIS APPLICATION IN ANY WAY. ************************************************************************** 1. REGISTRATION TYPE (N)ew (M)odify (D)elete..: 2.* FULLY-QUALIFIED DOMAIN NAME: 3. ORGANIZATION INFORMATION 3a. Organization Name.....: 3b. Address Line 1........: 3b. Address Line 2........: 3c. City..................: 3d. State.................: 3e. Zip/Code..............: 4. DESCRIPTION OF ORG/DOMAIN: 5. Date Operational......: 6. ADMINISTRATIVE CONTACT OF ORG/DOMAIN 6a. NIChandle (if known)..: 6b. Whole Name............: 6c. Organization Name.....: 6d. Address Line 1........: 6d. Address Line 2........: 6e. City..................: 6f. State.................: 6g. Zip/Code..............: 6h.* Voice Phone...........: 6i.* Electronic Mailbox....: 7. TECHNICAL AND ZONE CONTACT 7a. NIChandle (if known)..: 7b. Whole Name............: 7c. Organization Name.....: 7d. Address Line 1........: 7d. Address Line 2........: 7e. City..................: 7f. State.................: 7g. Zip/Code..............: 7h.* Voice Phone...........: 7i.* Electronic Mailbox....: - 3 - FILL OUT QUESTION 8 AND 9 FOR DELEGATIONS ONLY (i.e those organizations running nameservers for a branch of the US Domain namespace, for example: k12..us). 8. PRIMARY SERVER: HOSTNAME, NETADDRESS 8a. NIChandle (if known)..: 8b. Whole Name............: 8c. Organization Name.....: 8d. Address Line 1........: 8d. Address Line 2........: 8e. City..................: 8f. State.................: 8g. Zip/Code..............: 8h.* Voice Phone...........: 8i.* Electronic Mailbox....: 8j. Hostname..............: 8k.* IP Address ...........: 8l.* HARDWARE..............: 8m.* OPERATING SYS.........: 9. * SECONDARY SERVER: HOSTNAME, NETADDRESS 9a.* Hostname..............: 9b.* IP Address............: 9c.* HARDWARE..............: 9d.* OPERATING SYS.........: FILL OUT QUESTION 10 FOR DIRECT REGISTRATIONS IP HOSTS (if you answered 8 & 9, do not answer 10, 11, and 12) 10. RESOURCE RECORDS (RRs) FOR IP INTERNET HOSTS 10a. DOMAIN NAME ..........: 10b.* IP ADDRESS (required).: 10c. HARDWARE .............: 10d. OPERATING SYS ........: 10e. WKS ..................: 10f.* MX ...................: It is your responsibility to see that an IN-ADDR pointer record is entered in the DNS database. Contact the administrator of the IP network your host is on to have this done. FILL OUT QUESTIONS 11 AND 12 FOR NON-IP HOSTS (such as UUCP) 11. FORWARDING HOST INFORMATION 11a. Forwarding Host.......: 11b. Contact Name (req)....: 11c. Contact Email (req)...: 12. RESOURCE RECORDS (RRs) FOR NON-IP HOSTS (UUCP) 12a. DOMAIN NAME ..........: 12b. HARDWARE .............: 12c. OPERATING SYS ........: 12d.* MX (required).........: ************************************************************************** DISCLAIMER By the registration of your name on the Internet, the IANA, the InterNIC, Network Solutions Inc., the University of Southern California, and the National Science Foundation are accepting in good faith that you have the right to the use the name. The IANA and InterNIC/Network Solutions' function in registering names on the Internet is to assure that the name does not conflict with any other name in the name space requested. The user by its registration and use of the name and/or their continued use of an existing name, agrees, as part of their request for name registration, to indemnify and hold harmless from any and all costs, fees, expenses arising from litigation involving trademark, trade name, service mark, and any other name infringements, or other reasons, the IANA, the InterNIC, Network Solutions Inc., the University of Southern California, and the National Science Foundation. The party requesting registration of this name certifies that to her/his knowledge, the use of this name does not violate trademark or other statutes. Registering a domain name does not confer any legal rights to that name and any disputes between parties over the rights to use a particular name are to be settled between the contending parties using normal legal methods (See RFC 1591). **************************************************************************