Registrar EPP information

The transition the Estonian Internet Foundation is carrying out in order to implement the new domain rules includes establishing communications between registrars and the registry through a client-server based function via the EPP (Extensible Provisioning Protocol), which will allow automatic messaging between registrar client programmes and the registry server programme. These specifications, created with the needs of Estonian systems in mind, will allow you to view the EPP commands required to send and receive answers from the central registry server, as well as plenty of examples of commands and requests.

There are two options for connecting to our registries EPP server:

1. Developing your own EPP client, which sends commands via the EPP and receives answer statements, and integrating this into your information systems; or
2. Using a command line client programme, which will allow a registrar to manually send all requests to the registry server.

Additional information is available from epptest@internet.ee.

Command line client

Command line client can be downloaded from here.

Guide to the client can be found here.

.ee specific requirements that are good to know in advance

Domain regulation sub-point 4.1.2 dictates that 4 registration services(domain registration, contact information update, domain deletion and registrant change) require the corresponding application to be signed by the registrants or the registrants administrative contact. This signed application must be added to a respectable EPP command in the legalDocument field and is mandatory with commands involved with before mentioned 4 registration services.

Registrar contracts technical annex sub-points 1.6-1.9 states the requirements for the application sent via EPP are as follows:

applications must be in pdf, odt, doc or docx file format - this includes documents that have been scanned, applications inside a digitally signed container and credit institutions proof of payment
applications signed personally while a registrars representative is present must be scanned into a document form
digitally signed applications must be in ddoc or bdoc conteiner
if a persons identity was confirmed via bank transfer as described in domain regulation sub-point 4.1.2.2 then together with the application must also be a proof of payment from the registrars credit institutionif multible documents are sent as a part of the application then these must first be compressed via zip, rar, gz or tar format.

Another .ee specific requirement is that according to domains regulation sub-point 2.14 administrative contact can only be a citizen of the Republic of Estonia with an Estonian personal identification code or citizen of the European Union, member state of the European Economic Area or Swiss confederation, whose place of residence is registered as Estonia. In techical terms this means that administrative contact objects "ident" field has to be type "op" and only include Estonian personal identification numbers. Estonian national identification numbers are 11 characters long with the first number being between 1-6(typically 3 or 4) (example 38105071234).

EPP test server

EPP test server will allow those wishing to be a registrar to test their EPP clients functionality.

To gain access to our test server a e-mail should be sent to epptest@internet.ee with the following information:

name of the company you're representing
name, e-mail and a telephone number of your technical contact who can be contacted if needed
IP address of your system(currently we only allow 1 IP per registrar) and certificate request(CSR)

In return to your e-mail our technical personnel will create you access to the test system and send you the necessary login information.

Requirements for applications sent via EPP

Maximum size for legalDocument sent with a EPP command is 8MB and all objects must be in UTF-8 encoding.

Documents:

EPP specification

Command line client

Command line client guide

EPP response codes