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What are premium domain names?

Premium names are highly desirable domain names that are generally available at a higher price than regular domain names.

All domain names are not equal. There are various factors that lend value to a domain name, for instance, the number of characters in the name, common keywords, or how memorable the name is. Invariably, such domain names are sold at a higher price than regular domain names, particularly if they represent a concept, idea, or category.

Advantages of premium names

A premium domain name makes an instant impression on the target audience, irrespective of the category or type of business. It provides a boost in search engine optimization efforts, and may also improve type-in traffic from visitors specifically looking for a product, service or idea. As such, it helps businesses and users welcome visitors that may not otherwise reach their website. It also means that users know exactly what to expect from the website, since the name makes the value proposition clear to the visitor. This can save any company a lot of time, money and effort in branding, to influence prospective customers.

Premium domains are also great for word-of-mouth and physical marketing activities - a short and memorable name makes it easy for users to come to the site much after they've seen it on TV or a billboard, or just heard about it from a friend. Ultimately, a high quality name helps you make a real statement about your business.

Types of premium domain names

Depending on their source and ownership, there are two types of premium domain names -

Premium names sold by Registries

High quality domain names in various domain extensions are often made available at a higher price by the respective Registries. Though the price is higher, these names can be registered in the same way as regular domain names. If a name you're looking for happens to be premium, the search results will indicate as much, and show the actual price for the domain name.

Registry-sold premium domains may be of two types -

• Some domains may be sold at a very high initial price, but will renew or transfer at the same price as a regular domain name
• Other domains may be sold at a higher price, but will also renew or transfer at the same higher price

Aftermarket premium names

These are domain names that have already been registered by other customers; however, the current owner is offering them for sale. Such sales happen through various registrars and aftermarket services. At , we have partnered with several aftermarket platforms in order to bring such high-quality domains to our customers, and they can be purchased directly on the website.

The process to buy an aftermarket domain is different from the regular domain registration process. Since these names are already registered, they must be transferred from the seller's registrar to the buyer's account on . The transfer process for these names is simplified, so you don't need to take any extra steps when buying a premium domain name.

Aftermarket premium domains are generally available across all of the popular TLDs, including .COM, .NET and various ccTLDs where the registries don't sell any premium names themselves. Aftermarket premium names have a high initial price, but renew or transfer at the same price as normal domain names in that TLD.

How do I buy a premium domain name?

The process of buying a premium domain name is not different from buying ordinary domain names - when you search for domain names on the website, premium names matching your search request will be included in the results. These results will also indicate if the name renews at a premium price, or if the renewal pricing will be similar to regular names.

When you add a premium name to your shopping cart and make the payment for it, we will start the process of acquiring it for you. Once the name has been secured, it will be activated in your control panel, and can be managed like any other domain name.

Description

Returns a list of Aftermarket Premium domain names based on the specified keyword. This method only returns names available on the secondary market, and not those premium names that are offered directly by any Registry for new registration.

Parameters

HTTP Method

GET

Example Test URL Request

https://domaincheck.httpapi.com/api/domains/premium/available.xml?auth-userid=0&api-key=key&key-word=domain&tlds=com&tlds=net&tlds=org&price-high=10000&no-of-results=10

Response

Returns a hash map with a list of Aftermarket Premium domain names and the price for each of them.

Apart from modifying Name Servers of domain names individually, you may use the Bulk Modify Name Servers tool to modify Name Servers for multiple domain names belonging to your Customers and / or Sub-Resellers.

About Exceptions and Lock / Suspension 

Instructions for Customers

1. Login to your Customer Control Panel. See details

2. Here, you have two options:

   • Select domain names from a list:

     • In the Menu, point to Manage Orders and then click List/Search Orders. This would list all Orders under your Customer Account.

       Searching domain names 

       Note

       You may choose to search for specific domain names to modify Name Servers, by selecting one or more of the following parameters and clicking the Search button:

       • Name / Order ID: You may choose to view Orders associated with a domain name. Mention the domain name / Order ID here.

       • For Product: Select Domain Registration from the drop-down menu.

       • With Status: Select the status as Active.

       • Expiry: You may choose to list domain names based on their Expiry status. Select Expiring in certain number of days.

       • Set to Auto-Renew: You may choose to list domain names for which Auto-Renewal is enabled.

         Additional Information

         Auto-Renewal

       • Containing Name Servers: You may choose to list domain names based on existing Name Servers. Mention multiple Name Servers separated by commas.

       • Purchased between: You may choose to list domain names based on their purchase date. Select the Start Date and End Date to search within this date range.

       Note

       You may quickly list Orders by selecting any of the below mentioned Auto Filters:

       • List all Orders: This will list all Orders.

       • Orders Expiring in next 30 days: This will list all Orders expiring in the next 30 days.

       • Orders set to Auto-Renew: This will list all Orders for which Auto-Renewal is enabled.

     • Select the domain names you wish to modify Name Servers for and then click the button.

     Note

     • You may also provide a list of domain names / Order IDs in the Bulk Actions page, which can be reached by clicking the icon in the List of Orders page.

     • In order to modify Name Servers for more than 50 domain names, you need to increase the number of domain names listed per page from the Results/Page drop-down menu.

   • Enter a list of domain names:

     • In the Menu, point to Manage Orders -> Bulk Tools and then click Bulk Modify Name Servers.

     • Enter a list of Domain Names or Order IDs. You can mention upto 1000 Domain Names or Order IDs on separate lines.

     • Click the button.

3. You would be displayed a Bulk Modify Name Servers Summary view, alongwith the total number of Orders in the Bulk Name Servers Modification Action.

   Note

   Invalid Orders or Orders not found under your Account will be segregated from your list. Such Orders can be viewed through the appropriate link(s) displayed on the Bulk Modify Name Servers Summary page.

   Invalid Orders include:

   • Orders of TLDs (extensions) for which Name Servers Modification is not supported

   • Orders of Product types other than Domain Registration

   • Inactive Orders

   • Suspended Orders

   • Locked Orders

   • Orders under Redemption Period

4. Click the Modify Name Servers button to place a Bulk Name Servers Modification Action.

Instructions for Resellers

1. Login to your Reseller Control Panel. See details

2. Here, you have two options:

   • Select domain names from a list:

     • In the Menu, point to Products and then click List All Orders. This would list all Orders under your Reseller account.

       Searching domain names 

       Note

       You may choose to search for specific domain names to modify Name Servers, by selecting one or more of the following parameters and clicking the Search button:

       • Belonging to: You may choose to view Orders associated with a domain name or belonging to a Customer or a Sub-Reseller. Choose the appropriate option from the drop-down menu and mention either the domain name / Order ID or the Customer Username / ID or the Sub-Reseller Username / ID.

       • For Product: Select Domain Registration from the drop-down menu.

       • With Status: Select the status as Active.

       • Expiry: You may choose to list domain names based on their Expiry status. Select Expiring in certain number of days.

       • Set to Auto-Renew: You may choose to list domain names for which Auto-Renewal is enabled.

         Additional Information

         Auto-Renewal

       • Containing Name Servers: You may choose to list domain names based on existing Name Servers. Mention multiple Name Servers separated by commas.

       • Purchased between: You may choose to list domain names based on their purchase date. Select the Start Date and End Date to search within this date range.

       • Include Sub-Reseller's results: You may include in the list all domain names belonging to your Sub-Resellers, by selecting this check box.

       Note

       You may quickly list Orders by selecting any of the below mentioned Auto Filters:

       • List all Orders: This will list all Orders.

       • Orders Expiring in next 30 days: This will list all Orders expiring in the next 30 days.

       • Orders set to Auto-Renew: This will list all Orders for which Auto-Renewal is enabled.

     • Select the domain names you wish to modify Name Servers for and then click the button.

     Note

     • You may also provide a list of domain names / Order IDs / Customer IDs / Reseller IDs in the Bulk Actions page, which can be reached by clicking the icon in the List of Orders page.

     • In order to modify Name Servers for more than 50 domain names, you need to increase the number of domain names listed per page from the Results/Page drop-down menu.

   • Enter a list of domain names:

     • In the Menu, point to Products -> Bulk Tools and then click Bulk Modify Name Servers.

     • Enter a list of Domain Names, Order IDs, Customer IDs or Reseller IDs. You can mention upto 1000 Domain Names, Order IDs, Customer IDs or Reseller IDs on separate lines.

       Selecting Customer IDs or Reseller IDs allows you to modify Name Servers for all domain names under the specified Customer(s) / Sub-Reseller(s).

     • Click the button.

3. You would be displayed a Bulk Modify Name Servers Summary view, alongwith the total number of Orders in the Bulk Name Servers Modification Action.

   Note

   Invalid Orders or Orders not found under your Account will be segregated from your list. Such Orders can be viewed through the appropriate link(s) displayed on the Bulk Modify Name Servers Summary page.

   Invalid Orders include:

   • Orders of TLDs (extensions) for which Name Servers Modification is not supported

   • Orders of Product types other than Domain Registration

   • Inactive Orders

   • Suspended Orders

   • Locked Orders

   • Orders under Redemption Period

4. Click the Modify Name Servers button to place a Bulk Name Servers Modification Action.

Tracking your Bulk Name Servers Modification Action

• You can track the status of your Bulk Name Servers Modification Action from the Running Bulk Actions page.

  Additional Information

  Listing all Bulk Actions that are currently running in your Account

• You will receive a detailed report of your Bulk Name Servers Modification action once the process completes.

Bulk Actions Limit 

Description

Deletes a Delegation Signer (DS) Record for a Domain Registration Order.

Parameters

HTTP Method

POST

Example Test URL Request


https://test.httpapi.com/api/domains/del-dnssec.xml?auth-userid=0&api-key=key&order-id=0&attr-name1=keytag&attr-value1=123&attr-name2=algorithm&attr-value2=3&attr-name3=digesttype&attr-value3=1&attr-name4=digest&attr-value4=49FD46E6C4B45C55D4AC49FD46E6C4B45C55D111


Response

Returns a hash map containing the below details:

• Domain Name (description)

• Order ID of the Domain Registration Order (entityid)

• Action Type (actiontype)

• Description of the Delete DS Record Action (actiontypedesc)

• Action ID of the Delete DS Record Action (eaqid)

• Delete DS Record Action Status (actionstatus)

• Description of the Delete DS Record Action Status (actionstatusdesc)

In case of any errors, a status key with value as ERROR along with an error message will be returned.

Description

Adds a Delegation Signer (DS) Record for a Domain Registration Order.

Parameters

HTTP Method

POST

Example Test URL Request


https://test.httpapi.com/api/domains/add-dnssec.xml?auth-userid=0&api-key=key&order-id=0&attr-name1=keytag&attr-value1=123&attr-name2=algorithm&attr-value2=3&attr-name3=digesttype&attr-value3=1&attr-name4=digest&attr-value4=49FD46E6C4B45C55D4AC49FD46E6C4B45C55D111


Response

Returns a hash map containing the below details:

• Domain Name (description)

• Order ID of the Domain Registration Order (entityid)

• Action Type (actiontype)

• Description of the Add DS Record Action (actiontypedesc)

• Action ID of the Add DS Record Action (eaqid)

• Add DS Record Action Status (actionstatus)

• Description of the Add DS Record Action Status (actionstatusdesc)

In case of any errors, a status key with value as ERROR along with an error message will be returned.

A Delegation Signer (DS) Record contains the digital signature information for your domain name's DNS and is used to identify the DNSSEC signing key of a delegated zone. DS Record(s) for your domain name can be managed from its Order Details view, within your Control Panel.

Adding a DS Record

1. Login to your Control Panel, search for the domain name and proceed to the Order Information
   view. See details

2. Click the DNSSEC link.

3. This will display the Manage DNSSEC view.

   Note

   The Manage DNSSEC view will display a list of DS Records, if already added. Here, click the Add Records button to proceed.

   

   Provide information for the following fields and then click the Save button:

   

   • Key Tag: Contains the tag value of the DNSKEY Resource Record that validates this signature. An integer value in the range 0 to 65536.

   • Algorithm: The cryptographic algorithm that is used to generate the signature

   • Digest Type: The algorithm type used to construct the Digest. Applicable values are 1, 2 & 3 for .COM / .NET and 1 & 2 for other domain name extensions.

   • Digest: An alpha-numeric string generated by applying the Digest Type algorithm to a message. It needs to be a 40-character string for Digest Type value 1 and a 64-character string for Digest Type values 2 and 3.

Deleting a DS Record

1. Login to your Control Panel, search for the domain name and proceed to the Order Information
   view. See details

2. Click the DNSSEC link.

   

3. Click the Delete link under the Action column, corresponding to the DS Record you wish to delete.

4. Confirm the deletion by clicking the OK button.

Domain Name System (DNS)

The Domain Name System (DNS) is a distributed database, arranged hierarchically, containing records for domain names. The DNS system's main aim is to match a domain name
to an IP Address. When a user types a domain name in a browser, the DNS translates the domain name to an IP Address.

Vulnerabilities were discovered in the DNS that allow a hacker to hijack this process of looking a site up on the Internet using the domain name. The purpose of such an attack is to take control of the user session to, for example, send the user to the hijacker's own deceptive web site for sensitive data collection. This lead to the introduction of Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC).

Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC)

Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) is a technology developed to protect against malicious activities like cache poisoning, pharming, and man-in-the-middle attacks. It adds digital signatures to a domain name's DNS to determine the authenticity of the source domain name. DNSSEC is a set of extensions to DNS that provides to DNS clients (resolvers):

• Origin authentication of DNS data,

• Authenticated denial of existence,

  and

• Data integrity.

DNSSEC uses a digital signature to create a chain of authority. Then, it uses the chain to verify that the source domain name, which the DNS resolver returns, matches the DNS record stored at the authoritative DNS. If it cannot validate the source, it discards the response. This ensures that the user is connecting to the actual address for a domain name.

DNSSEC is currently supported for the following TLDs (domain name extensions):

• By the Registry Operator:

  • .COM

  • .DE

  • .EU

  • .IN

  • .ME

  • .NET

  • .NL

  • .NZ

  • .ORG

  • .UK

  • .US

  • CentralNIC

• By :

  • .COM

  • .IN

  • .ME

  • .NET

  • .ORG