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Thank you for taking the time to apply for membership in the TLDA!

Here is the basic criteria for Associate and Full Membership in the TLDA. Once you have completed the application process below and you application has been approved, you will be granted Provisional Membership status and welcomed to the community of TLD Holders.

Membership is available to TLD holders who can prove the right to assign or delegate rights, cancel or delegate authority for an operational TLD. The holder must be a legally recognized entity such as, but not limited to, a partnership, trust, corporation, natural person, government, cooperative. The TLD must also meet certain criteria of activity and stability.


1.) You must provide the information for at least two nameservers (TLD Servers), on separate packet switched netorks answering AUTH for the TLD, and they must report AUTH for a valid SOA. (FQDN Hostnames and IP Addresses are required to complete your application).


2.) You will need to have 3 SLDs delegated/registered under your TLD that have content and are operational. These SLDs do not need to have web sites associated with them. Content can be an ftp server, an Internet host or STMP Server, etc. (You do not have to provide this information today).

3.) You will need an operational registry - even if it is by hand, but you must prove a means by which SLDs can be created and delegated under your Top-Level Domain. (you do not have to complete this informatin today).

Complete information regarding TLDA Membership can be found in the Corporate Bylaws on this website, as well as the terms and conditions which you must acknowledge (at the bottom of the page) prior to submitting your application.

Be prepared to enter the AUTH zone data for your TLD, including the address of the registry/registrar, the NIC/Info site, nameservers (TLD Servers), rp (responsible party - the DNS Administrator's email address), and other standard and (RFC Compliant) verifiable contact info as needed.


Before we get started, please take a moment to review the legend icons to the right of each field indicating whether the field is mandatory or not. This will save you the time and effort of having to abandon an only partially completed application, and having to return later in order to complete all of the required portions.

For fields that are not required, you will have the opportunity to login and complete your details in full once provisional membership has been granted. There is a 120 day period for you to complete the supplemental information in order to be granted Full Membership.

You will only be completing the AUTH info for one TLD at this time. A TLD Holder is granted membership based on whether there is an operational TLD - not how many. You will have ample opportunity to add any additional TLDs once your Provisional Membership has been granted.

This application is pretty much straight forward, and if you're an actual TLD Holder or Manager you shouldn't have any problem at all completing the required portions of the application.

Once again, thanks for applying for membership, and let's get started okay?
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* This Field is required This Field IS visible on profile Information for: First Name : Please enter your real first name.
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* This Field is required This Field IS visible on profile Information for: Username : Please enter a valid username. No spaces, at least 3 characters and contain 0-9,a-z,A-Z
* This Field is required This Field IS NOT visible on profile Information for: Password : Please enter a valid password. No spaces, at least 6 characters and contain lower and upper-case letters, numbers and special signs
* This Field is required This Field IS NOT visible on profile Information for: Verify Password : Please enter a valid password. No spaces, at least 6 characters and contain lower and upper-case letters, numbers and special signs
* This Field is required This Field IS NOT visible on profile Information for: Email : Please enter a valid e-mail address. A confirmation email will be sent to this address upon registration.
This Field IS visible on profile Information for: Company : Enter the Company Name, if any, or leave blank if the TLD Holder is a private individual.
This Field IS visible on profile Information for: Position / Title : Enter your title or position with the company or organization that is the TLD Holder. If you (The TLD Holder) are a private individual then you can leave this field blank.
* This Field is required This Field IS visible on profile Information for: Company Type : Select the type of organization for the TLD Holder from the drop-down list. If the TLD Holder is a private individual, then the default selection of, "Private Individual(s) is acceptable..
* This Field is required This Field IS visible on profile Information for: Address : <p>Enter your mailing address here, or if the TLD Holder is a company or some other type of organization, the mailing address for that company or organization.</p> <p>The Membership Committee will verify this address via postal mail.</p> <p>To be eligible for membership in the TLDA, you must provide valid, servicable contact information. Alternatively, you can enter the contact information for your legal agent or proxy.</p>
This Field IS visible on profile Information for: Address Line 2 : If you need additional lines for your address, you can put the extra information here, and in Address Line 3. Address Line 2 and Address Line 3 are optional, and only listed here in case you need them.
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* This Field is required This Field IS visible on profile Information for: TLD : <p>This is the TLD used to determine your eligibility for membership in the TLDA.</p> <p>You will have the opportunity to submit any other TLDs which you Hold/Control one your application has been approved.</p> <p>Since you only need one TLD to qualify for membership, this simplifies and shortens the application process by only requiring the AUTH Info for one TLD.</p>
This Field IS visible on profile Information for: Creation Date : <p>This is the creation date of your TLD. </p> <p>Enter it here if you know the creation date. TLDA will research the date of creation and may determine that the TLD actually existed prior to the date which you obtained control over it. </p> <p>If you don't know the actual creation date of this TLD just leave it blank and TLDA may be able to provide the date for this.</p>
* This Field is required This Field IS visible on profile Information for: Zone Contact / RP / DNS Administrator Email Address : <p>This is the Email address for the RP (Responsible Party) in the SOA record of your TLD.</p> <p>This is the zone contact /DNS Admin for the TLD that other administrators will contact if there are DNS issues related to the zone.</p> <p>If you don't know the RP Email address for this TLD, merely enter your own email address and the TLDA will research and verify the email address for the RP in your Start of Authority record directly from your Authoritative TLD Servers.</p> <p>This email address may or may not be you. Again, it is the address of the DNS Admin that other administrators will contact if there are administrative DNS issues that need to be addressed.</p>
This Field IS visible on profile Information for: NIC Address (Network Information Center) Website : <p>This is the address (URL/URI) of your TLD's Network Information Center (NIC).</p> <p>The information at this address or web page should contain publicly accessible information about the TLD such as the location (URL, Email address or phone number, etc.) of the registry/registrars), particulars about the TLD and it's associated policies, acceptable use, requirements and eligibility for registration of SLDs under the TLD, etc.</p> <p>The address is often http://NIC.TLD, by historical convention, but may be another address. </p> <p>Sometimes the URL for the NIC and the registry/registrar are the same. If that is the case then enter the same URL for both fields.</p> <p>If you do not have this information at this time merely leave the item blank. You will have 120 days to provide this URL after your application for membership has been approved, and it can be changed at any time.</p>
This Field IS visible on profile Information for: TLD Registry/Registration Website : <div> <div>This is the location of the website (URL) for your TLD's Registry.</div> <div></div> <div></div> <div>The information at this web page should contain or have available the information about the registration of  SLDs under your TLD, particulars about the TLD and it's associated policies, acceptable use, requirements and eligibility for registration of SLDs under the TLD, etc.</div> <div> </div> <div></div> <div>The address is often http://www.TLD, by historical convention, but may be another address such as http://NIC.TLD or http://register.TLD, etc.</div> <div></div> <div>If you are performing registrations by hand via a phone/fax number, Email or postal mailing address or other method then leave this blank and enter that information into the "Additonal TLD Info" area at the end of this application.</div> <div></div> <div></div> <div>Sometimes the URL for the NIC and the registry/registrar are the same. If that is the case then enter the same URL for both fields.</div> <div></div> <div></div> <div>If you do not have this information at this time merely leave the item blank. You will have 120 days to provide this Information after your application for membership has been approved, and it can be changed at any time.</div> </div>
This Field IS visible on profile Information for: WHOIS Website : <div> <div> <div>This is the location of the website (URL) for your TLD's WHOIS service.</div> <div></div> <div></div> <div> </div> <div></div> <div>The address is often http://WHOIS.TLD, by historical convention, but may be another address.</div> <div></div> <div></div> <div>If you are updating the list or database of SLD registrations by hand then leave this blank and enter that information into the "Additonal TLD Info" area at the end of this application.</div> <div></div> <div></div> <div></div> <div>Sometimes the URL for the NIC. the WHOIS, and the registry/registrar are the same. If that is the case then enter the same URL for all three fields.</div> <div></div> <div></div> <div></div> <div>If you do not have this information at this time merely leave the item blank. this information is optional, and it can be changed at any time.</div> </div> <div></div> <div><strong><span style="font-family: 'arial black', 'avant garde';">NOTE: if you are providing three different addresses (URLs) for your NIC, your WHOIS, and the website for your registration facilities, then you will have met the basic membership requirement for "Three Operational SLDs" under your TLD - IF, those sites are indeed under SLD child domains, and not simply A Resource Records (A RRs) within the TLD zone (domain) itself.</span></strong></div> </div>
* This Field is required This Field IS visible on profile Information for: Hostname of TLD Server 01 : <p>This required field is FQDN (Hostname) of your first TLD Server (DNS server) for your TLD. </p> <p>You must provide this information now for your membership application to be processed.</p> <p>The hostname of this nameserver does not need to reside in Legacy name space (com/net/org/ccTLD/etc.).</p>
* This Field is required This Field IS visible on profile Information for: IP Address of TLD Server 01 : <div> <div> <div>This required field is the IPv4 IP Address (Glue or A record) of your first TLD Server (DNS server) for your TLD.</div> <div></div> <div></div> <div>You must provide this information now for your membership application to be processed.</div> <div></div> <div></div> <div>If your nameservers only reside in another type of IP space, such as IPv6, then you should enter the following here: 0.0.0.0</div> <div></div> <div></div> <div>You will have the opportunity to provide the IPv6 or other type of addressing later, at the end of this application.</div> </div> </div>
* This Field is required This Field IS visible on profile Information for: Hostname of TLD Server 02 : <div>This required field is FQDN (Hostname) of your second TLD Server (DNS server) for your TLD.</div> <div></div> <div>You must provide this information now for your membership application to be processed.</div> <div></div> <div>The hostname of this nameserver does not need to reside in Legacy name space (com/net/org/ccTLD/etc.).</div>
* This Field is required This Field IS visible on profile Information for: IP Address of TLD Server 02 : <div> <div>This required field is the IPv4 IP Address (Glue or A record) of your second TLD Server (DNS server) for your TLD.</div> <div></div> <div>You must provide this information now for your membership application to be processed.</div> <div></div> <div>If your nameservers only reside in another type of IP space, such as IPv6, then you should enter the following here: 0.0.0.0</div> <div></div> <div>You will have the opportunity to provide the IPv6 or other type of addressing later, at the end of this application.</div> </div>
 
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