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Zone Management</h2> <ul> <li><a href="/help/root-zone-process">Root Zone Change Request Process</a><ul> <li><a href="/help/nameserver-requirements">Technical Requirements for Requests to Change TLD Nameservers in the Root Zone</a> <li><a href="/help/rdap-requirements">Requirements for RDAP Servers providing Domain Name Data</a></li> <li><a href="/help/obtaining-consent">Obtaining Consent for a Root Zone Change</a></li> <li><a href="/help/eligible-tlds">Eligible Top-Level Domain Strings</a></li> </ul></li> <li>Root Zone Management System <ul> <li><a href="/domains/root/root-zone-management-user-guide.pdf">Root Zone Management System User Guide</a> (PDF, 3.2 MB)</li> <li><a href="/help/id-verification">Identity Verification User Guide</a></li> <li><a href="/help/rzm-api">Root Zone Management System API and Testing Environment User Guide</a></li> <li><a href="/help/rzms-changelog">System Changelog</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/help/gtld-delegation">Delegating a Generic Top-Level Domain</a></li> <li><a href="/help/cctld-delegation">Delegating or Transferring a Country-Code Top-Level Domain</a> <ul> <li><a href="/help/cctld-delegation-answers">Questions and Answers on ccTLD Delegation and Transfers</a></li> <li><a href="/help/operational-plans">Preparing an Operational and Technical Plan</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/help/cctld-retirement">Retirement of a Country-Code Top-Level Domain</a></li> <li><a href="/help/caretaker-operations">Caretaker operations for a top-level domain</a></li> <li><a href="/help/complaint-procedure">Customer Service Complaint Resolution Process</a></li> </ul> <h2>Root Zone Key Signing Ceremonies</h2> <ul> <li><a href="/help/key-ceremony-attendance">Attending a key signing ceremony</a></li> <li><a href="/help/key-ceremony-roles">Key Ceremony Roles</a></li> <li><a href="/help/key-ceremony-schedule">Key Signing Ceremony scheduling</a></li> <li>Trusted Community Representatives (TCRs) <ul> <li><a href="/help/tcr-criteria">Selection Criteria</a></li> <li><a href="/help/tcr-application">Call for volunteers</a></li> <li><a href="/help/tcr-roles">Roles</a></li> <li><a href="/help/tcr-travel-support">Travel Support Procedures</a></li> <li><a href="/help/tcr-changes">Changes</a></li> </ul> </li> <li>Key Management Facilities <ul> <li><a href="/help/kmf-rules">Facility requirements</a></li> <li><a href="/help/kmf-east">KMF East: Culpeper, Virginia</a></li> <li><a href="/help/kmf-west">KMF West: El Segundo, California</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> <h2>Intergovernmental treaty organization (.INT) domains</h2> <ul> <li><a href="/help/int-eligibility">Eligibility for a .INT domain</a></li> </ul> <h2>Label Generation Rulesets and IDN Tables</h2> <ul> <li><a href="/help/idn-repository-procedure">Procedures for the IDN Repository</a></li> </ul> <h2>Protocol Parameters</h2> <ul> <li><a href="/help/protocol-registration">Protocol Registration Procedures</a></li> <li><a href="/help/licensing-terms">Licensing Terms</a></li> </ul> <h2>Number Resources</h2> <ul> <li><a href="/help/inr-request-procedure">Making Internet Number Resource Allocations to Regional Internet Registries</a></li> <li><a href="/help/updating-legacy-ipv4-space">Updating legacy Class A IPv4 allocations</a></li> </ul> <h2>Other</h2> <ul> <li><a href="/help/example-domains">Example domains</a></li> <li><a href="/help/whois">Using the IANA WHOIS server</a></li> <li><a href="/help/abuse-answers">Abuse Issues and IP Addresses</a></li> <li><a href="/help/dns-blackhole">DNS Blackhole (AS112) Service</a></li> </ul> <h2>Archived Articles</h2> <ul> <li><a href="/help/rzms-answers">Common Questions on the Next-Generation Root Zone Management System</a> (2022)</li> <li><a href="/help/pti-transition">About the IANA stewardship transition from NTIA</a> (2016)</li> <li><a href="/help/rzm-system">Information regarding online root management system</a> (2010)</li> <li><a href="/help/test-tld-procedure">Procedures for delegating test IDN top-level domains</a> 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