Creating Domain Documentation

Define the documents or information a domain extension needs from clients before you can register it. Add the instructions that explain what to submit.

Opening the Screen

Open this form from Domain Documentation. Click Create Documentation for a new extension, or open a row's menu and click Edit for an existing one. The addresses are {admin}/products/domain/docs/add and {admin}/products/domain/docs/edit?tld={extension}.

What Is on the Screen

A language tab strip lets you fill every field in more than one language. The Registration Documents card lists each document or information item you ask for. Each row has a name, a type, a Required switch, and a drag handle to reorder it. The client is asked for these items while ordering the domain. An item switched to Required must be filled in before the order can be completed. The others are optional, and the order can go ahead with them left empty. The Instructions card holds a message shown to the client while they order the domain.

Fields

Tasks

Adding a Document or Information Item

Click Add under Registration Documents. Enter its name in your primary language, then choose its type. Other languages are optional; in one you leave blank, the client sees the primary-language name.

Setting Up File and Select Box Types

For a File type, enter the allowed extensions and the maximum size as a whole number of MB (for example 2 or 5; left empty, 3 MB applies). A fractional value such as 0.5 is not accepted and the save shows an error. For a Select Box type, click Add Option for each choice and name it in your primary language.

Making an Item Required

Turn on the Required switch on an item's row, then save. When the client configures the domain order, a Required info or select item must be filled in. A Required file must be uploaded. Otherwise the order configuration shows an error naming the missing item. Items you leave unswitched stay optional. Existing items start as optional until you switch them on.

Reordering or Removing an Item

Drag an item by its handle to change its order. Click its trash icon to remove it; at least one item must remain.

Writing the Client Instructions

Fill in Instructions for each language. Clients see this text on their domain order's detail page, next to the documents they need to submit.

Saving the Requirement

Enter the Domain Extension, then click Create for a new requirement or Save Changes if you opened it for editing.

Things to Watch

Required Privileges

• PRODUCTS_LOOK or PRODUCTS_GROUP_LOOK: open the screen.
• PRODUCTS_OPERATION: create or save a requirement.

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