The DELETE operation is used to delete a domain name that was registered in error.

Guidelines

• This command will be rejected if we have received payment for the initial domain registration.
• If the request is received after the seventh day of the calendar month following the month in which the domain was registered, the cancellation will be made but the invoice generated will still stand and payment must still be made.
• This command will be rejected if a tag change initiated by the registrant is currently in process.
• A domain cannot be deleted if its tag has been changed.
• This command can only be used for domains on your tag, attempts to do otherwise may be considered abuse.
• You must not use this command as part of any scheme where domains are intentionally registered, but cancelled before billing because their characteristics or attributes do not meet some requirement, or to benefit in any way from a brief period of registration without payment. This is a strict rule and there is no permitted acceptable level.
• You must not use this command in order to engineer a transfer to a third party and avoid the transfer process. This is a strict rule and there is no permitted acceptable level.

Instructions

• Send to the address applications@nic.uk.
  
• Use a subject line of TAG Delete (replace TAG with your tag name in capital letters)
• Use the template below to specify the domain you wish to delete
• You can specify up to 100 domain names in one message by separating each set of fields with a blank line
• Make sure the email is PGP-signed with a registered PGP key.

Operation template

The following template is used:

operation: delete
key:

Notes

1. The 'key' must specify a domain name on your tag.

Reply template

Subject: Re: ACK TAG Delete

Your message has been processed by the UK NIC automated DNS
delegation system. The required additions/changes have been
made to the database and will become visible in the zone file within
thirty minutes.

The delegation for automaton-example.co.uk has been updated successfully.
To check the current state of the entry for automaton-example.co.uk
in the database, use the following command

% whois -h whois.nic.uk automaton-example.co.uk

Regards

Nominet

Notes

1. The TAG in the subject lines is replaced with your TAG, provided that you specified it in the original subject.

Errors

After processing your operation the Automaton produces and sends an automated reply.  If there is a problem with the operation then two different error condition may occur.

• non-fatal errors (warning messages) may be appended to successful replies.
• fatal errors that prevents the operation from being carried out and so an error reply is generated.

Full details of the template of the error reply and the meaning of the error messages.