Accredited Registrars

An accredited registrar is an entity that offers domain name registration services to registrants of a generic top-level domain (gTLD) with direct access to the gTLD registries.

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Registrar Contact Updates

Contact Updates

Credentialed users of the Naming Services portal (NSp) can submit a contact update request for all roles in NSp through the Contact Update Request service.

ICANN-accredited registrars are required to provide ICANN with accurate and current Primary Contact information. Registrars on the 2013 Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) must notify ICANN of changes to Primary Contact details within five (5) days of the change.

Registrar Information Specification Updates

ICANN-accredited registrars under the 2013 Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) must notify ICANN of changes to information contained in the Registrar Information Specification (RIS) within 5 days of the change.

Applicable RIS updates should be emailed to [email protected]. For your convenience, a spreadsheet [XLSX, 111 KB] for providing the information in the RIS is available for download.

Naming Services portal Access

The registrar's Primary Contact is automatically credentialed for access to the Naming Services portal. To request the credentialing of additional users, the registrar Primary Contact should email a request from its credentialed email address to [email protected].

Please be advised that any credentialed user added to your account will have full Naming Services portal functionality for the credentialed account. For further details regarding the Naming Services portal and user access, please refer to Naming Services portal for Registrars on icann.org and the user guide.