.UK OT&E and Testbed data set.

This page relates to the future .UK testbed on testbed-uk.epp.nominet.uk and not the legacy platform. OT&E has not, yet, launched.

Objects existing in the live registry, such as domains, hosts and contacts, are not replicated in the OT&E or testbed environments.

Registrar Accreditations in OT&E and Testbed

In each test environment, each registrar accreditation has two test accreditations:

1. CLID username matches the production username.
2. Second CLID username in order that you can test transfers:
   1. If the CLID has less than 16 characters, the cloned CLID is the same as the original with trailing ‘_’. For example, if the CLID is ‘EXAMPLE’, the cloned CLID is ‘EXAMPLE_’.
   2. If the CLID has 16 characters, the final character has been replaced with a ‘_’. For example, if the CLID is ‘EXAMPLE-WITH-16C’, the cloned CLID is ‘EXAMPLE-WITH-16_’.
3. For launch; the primary CLID that matches production will be set to act as auto-delete at the point of auto-renew completion; and the second CLID will be set to auto-renew at the point of auto-renew completion. Note: At a later date both registrars will match the registrars chosen preference when that becomes available. For the cloned CLID domains/hosts including the CLID the _ will be replaced with a 1.

All information in the testbed will be fictional. A set of domains will be created on each CLID covering a variety of different states.

The dataset is reset daily .

For each of the test domains listed below [CLID] will be replaced with a CLID of your accreditations. [TLD] will be for the TLD that is represented in the testbed.

Each of the domain objects will be linked to specified Host and Contact objects.

The domains are named after mythical dragons.

• EPP fee extension will be on for the .uk registry.
• For each Domain, Host, Contact or Organisation object that get loaded by test data a ‘Domain created’, ‘Host created’, ‘Contact created’ or ‘Organisation created’ EPP notification will exist as if they had been generated by DDM. These can be used to populate your test system with the days data.
  • The created times will be at a lifecycle appropriate time in relation to the requirements of that test.
  • All domains/contacts will have no auth code set by default as per RFC9154; to attempt to transfer a domain a registrar must first set an auth code.

Domains Test case	Domain	Notes. (All times are in UTC).
Expiry / Auto-renew	y-ddraig-goch-[HHMM]-[CLID].[TLD] Registrant: C1-[CLID] Admin: C2-[CLID] Technical: C2-[CLID] Technical: C3-[CLID] Billing: C3-[CLID] Nameservers: ns1.nominetdns.uk ns2.nominetdns.wales ns3.nominetdns.[TLD]	Where [HHMM] is replaced by time the domain is expiring.There will be 12 of these across the day, one every 2 hours starting at 00:25.These domains can be utilised to enable you to delete recently expired domains.Identify that you can handle multiple technical contacts (Admin and billing contacts can also have multiple and they may have transferred in like this)Inter-registrar transfer processes with and without a renewal request during the auto-renew grace period.
Completion of auto-renew period	long-[HHMM]-[CLID].[TLD] Registrant: C1-[CLID] Nameservers: ns1.nominetdns.uk ns2.nominetdns.wales ns3.nominetdns.[TLD]	Where [HHMM] is replaced by the time the domain will complete its auto-renew period.There will be 12 of these across the day every 2 hours starting at 00:10.The primary CLID will be set to auto-delete at the end of the auto-renew period.System will send the Domain delete EPP notification.The secondary CLID will be set to auto-renew at the end of the auto-renew period.
RFC3915:Redemption Grace Period	beithir-[CLID].[TLD] Registrant: C1-[CLID] Nameservers: ns1.nominetdns.uk ns2.nominetdns.wales ns3.nominetdns.[TLD]	The domain has been placed into redemption period at 00:01.This domain will allow you to test the use of the single step ‘restore’ command.After restore if you wish to test again then delete this name and re-use.
RFC3915: pending delete	bolla-[CLID].[TLD] Registrant: C1-[CLID] Nameservers: ns1.nominetdns.uk ns2.nominetdns.wales ns3.nominetdns.[TLD]	The domain is 1 day into the final 5-day pending delete.
Domain Purge	coca-[HHMM]-[CLID].[TLD]	Where [HHMM] is replaced by time the domain will purge and be available for re-registration.There will be 12 of these across the day every 2 hours starting at 01:30.These domains can be utilised to test:EPP Check command in relation to drop catching.Registering dropping domains.System will send the Domain purged EPP notification.
Nameserver preventing deletion of domain and completion of auto-renew grace period	amaru-[CLID].[TLD] Registrant: C1-[CLID] End of auto-renew grace period time: 1200 UTC Nameservers: ns1.amaru-[clid].[TLD] ns1.nominetdns.uk ns2.nominetdns.wales ns3.nominetdns.[TLD]	Includes a sub-ordinate nameserver ns1.amaru-[clid].[TLD] with glue record which prevents the deletion of the domain.The primary CLID will be set to auto-delete at the end of the auto-renew period. This is an edge case that forces auto-renewal of the domain if the sub-ordinate host is not deleted by the end of the auto-renew grace period.The secondary CLID will be set to auto-renew at the end of the auto-renew period.
Registrar Lock: Domain	taniwha-[CLID].[TLD] Status: clientUpdateProhibited clientDeleteProhibited clientHold clientRenewProhibited.	Domain has transferred in with client statuses preventing operations until they are removed.This can be used to test that you can remove statuses from a domain.
Registry (Operator) Locks.	nogo-[CLID].[TLD] Status: serverUpdateProhibited serverDeleteProhibited serverTransferProhibited	Domain has the server statuses applied which prevent registrar actions.
Registry Operator Lock: renewProhibited/serverHold	coi-coi-vilu-[CLID].[TLD] Status: serverRenewProhibited serverHold	Domain has server statuses applied which prevent registrar actions

• When a registrar requests the transfer of a domain with a valid auth code, it will complete immediately and the former registrar will get an EPP notification indicating the domain has changed registrar.

Contact objects.

Contacts test case	Contact object	Notes
Contact Object with only INT postal fields	Contact:ID: C1-[CLID] Name: John Fictitious Smith Organisation: Nominet UK Street 1: Minerva House Street 2: Edmund Halley Road Street 3: Oxford Science Park City: Oxford State/Province: Oxfordshire Postcode: OX4 4DQ Country: GB Email: [email protected] Tel: +44.3302369480	These 3 test cases document the scenario that a registrar has transferred in a domain and needs to be able to handle the related data.We recommend the use of the LOC postal address but support either form or both. It’s important that registrars handle the data on transfer in appropriately as other registrars may use a different set of fields to yourselves.The utilisation of Japanese in the LOC field name is to ensure registrars can test the usage of UTF8 character sets in incoming contact objects.
Contact Object with only LOC postal fields	Contact:ID: C2-[CLID] Name: ジョン・フィクティシャス・スミスOrganisation: Nominet UK Street 1: Minerva House Street 2: Edmund Halley Road Street 3: Oxford Science Park City: Oxford State/Province: Oxfordshire Postcode: OX4 4DQ Country: GB Email: [email protected] Tel: +44.3302369480
Contact Object with both LOC and INT postal fields.	Contact:ID: C3-[CLID] Using the combination of the above two contacts.
Registrar Lock: Contact	Contact:ID: C4-[CLID] Statuses: clientUpdateProhibited, clientDeleteProhibited.	Test case for contact object that has transferred in and settings were in place by previous registrar.
Registry Lock:Contact	Contact:ID: C5-[CLID] Server statuses: serverUpdateProhibited serverDeleteProhibited serverTransferProhibited	Includes a Contact amended EPP notification.

Host objects

Host test cases	Host	Notes
Sub-ordinate host object	ns1.amaru-[clid].[TLD]	Used as a glue record for the super-ordinate domain. Glue must be in both IPv4 and IPv6.
Registrar Lock: Host	ns1.nogo-[CLID].[TLD] Statuses:clientUpdateProhibited clientDeleteProhibited.	Test case for host object that has transferred in and settings were in place by previous registrar.
Registry (Operator) Lock: Host	ns2.nogo-[CLID].[TLD] Server statuses applied: serverUpdateProhibited serverDeleteProhibited	Includes a host amended EPP notification.
Other hosts for use above.	ns1.nominetdns.uk ns2.nominetdns.wales ns3.nominetdns.[TLD]	Each of these will be created in the NOMINET accreditation.