contact types

The contact roles in a domain record: the registrant (glossary)registrant The person or organization that holds a domain name registration. Full definition of registrant (the holder) and the administrative, technical and billing contacts. For gTLDs (glossary)gTLD generic top-level domain A top-level domain not tied to a country, run under ICANN contracts. Full definition of gTLD, ICANN (glossary)ICANN Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers The nonprofit that coordinates the global DNS and gTLD policy. Full definition of ICANN's Registration Data Policy (glossary)Registration Data Policy ICANN's policy on collecting, publishing and disclosing gTLD registration data. Full definition of Registration Data Policy dropped the administrative contact and made the technical contact optional. Registrars (glossary)registrar A company that registers domain names for customers with the registry. Full definition of registrar were never required to publish billing contacts, and billing data is outside the policy. Many ccTLDs (glossary)ccTLD country code top-level domain A top-level domain for a country or territory, usually two letters long. Full definition of ccTLD use their own contact sets.