Important update: WHOIS Validation Changes
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Monday, 14th August, 2017
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23:31pm
As per ICANN’s WHOIS Accuracy program, every domain name registered requires validation of certain contact information fields. We sent an email earlier regarding the need to improve our system in order to address this during contact creation and customer account signup on SuperSite (Phase One). As a reminder, the validation checks are as follows:
- Telephone numbers: Minimum of 4 and Maximum 12 digits
- Telephone country codes: Minimum of 1 and Maximum of 3 digits
- A telephone number cannot start with “0”
- Zip codes will be based on country formats (For example, in India the zip code is 6 digits, in the USA it’s 5 digits and in the UK it would be a 7 character hybrid zip code of digits and alphabets like this ‘SW1A 0AA’. This would differ for different countries)
We are now happy to confirm, that we are near completion of Phase Two. This entailed extending the implementation from Phase One to our APIs and was completed by 8th August, 2017.
The following two API calls will be affected by these changes, allowing for the ability to modify/update the Zip codes and/or Country Codes associated to contacts:
