Validating Your Domain with ICANN

Validating Your Domain with ICANN

As of 2013, ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) requires validation of the registrant WHOIS contact information whenever you:

  • Register a new domain.

  • Update the registrant WHOIS contact information for an existing domain.

Verifying a New Domain Registration

When you purchase and register a new domain, you will receive a message at the e-mail address you specified as the domain’s registrant. To activate the domain, click the hyperlink in the message.

AlertImportant: The verification message is not sent from an oaohost.com e-mail address, but from donotreply@name-services.com. You may need to whitelist this address in your e-mail client so it does not get marked as spam. The subject line will be Important Notice Regarding Your Domain Name(s).

WarningWarning: You have 15 days to click the link and verify the registration. If you do not verify the registration by the end of the 15-day deadline, the domain will be suspended.

Verifying Updated Domain Registrant Information

When you update the registrant WHOIS contact information (first name, last name, or e-mail address) for an existing domain, you will receive a message at the e-mail address you specified as the new registrant. To verify the new registrant contact information, click the hyperlink in the message.

AlertImportant: The verification message is not sent from an oaohost.com e-mail address, but from donotreply@name-services.com. You may need to whitelist this address in your e-mail client so it does not get marked as spam. The subject line will be Important Notice Regarding Your Domain Name(s).

WarningWarning: You have 15 days to click the link and verify the new registrant contact information. If you do not verify the contact information by the end of the 15-day deadline, the domain will be suspended.

Domain Name Status Codes

Domain name status codes provide information about the status of a registered domain name. All domains have at least one status code, and sometimes more.

To obtain the status code information for a domain, run a WHOIS lookup. For detailed information about all of the possible domain status codes and what they mean, please visit https://icann.org/epp.

More Information

To view the official ICANN site, please visit http://www.icann.org.

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