Use RCL to do lookup on .ca domain
Request :$VAR1 = { 'object' => 'domain',
'attributes' => {
'affiliate_id' => '',
'domain' => 'york.bc.ca'
},
'registrant_ip' => '10.0.12.165',
'protocol' => 'XCP',
'action' => 'lookup'
};
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Response :$VAR1 = {
'attributes' => {
'upg_to_subdomain' => undef,
'status' => 'available',
'reason' => undef,
'price_status' => undef
},
'response_text' => 'Domain name is restricted to municipal government.',
'is_success' => '1',
'response_code' => '247'
};
response_code 247 means 'Domain name is restricted to municipal
government' and if End User wants to register it, then domain format must
be like <municipal_prefix>.NAME[.CANADA_PROVICE].ca
list of possible municipal prefixes can be found on RWI
There is another similar important <response_code> 246 on lookup request,
and it means Domain name is reserved: names of other level exist.
(Blocked domain)
E.Pirogov
OpenSRS Developer
On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Eric Paynter wrote:
> OK, CIRA has me pulling my hair out again... We have a domain in pending
> queue because the customer's credit card information (address etc.) was out
> of date. After spending considerable time on the phone with this person
> convincing him to go to the bank and update his info so that we can do an
> address verification, waiting days for this to be done while playing phone
> tag with the customer, listening to him gripe at us about how he believes he
> really shouldn't be doing business on the Internet anyway because all this
> fraud prevention stuff is scaring him, finally getting confirmation that the
> info is updated and getting a green light from Visa that the info matches...
> Click "Register Now" in the RWI and it returns: "Domain name is restricted
> to municipal government."
>
> Now I get to formulate the email that says sorry, we are so incompetant that
> we didn't even realize ahead of time your domain name is not available to a
> Canadian Citizen which is exactly what you put on our order form so we
> should have been able to catch it... Better luck next time!
>
> My questions:
>
> 1. Why doesn't OpenSRS catch this when the order is placed?
> 2. Where is the list of municipal restricted .ca names so we can do our own
> checking in the future?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Eric P.
>
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