Delete

Purpose

Delete a Contact Object.

Authority

Only the Managing AR can delete Contact Objects under his management.

Condition for deletion

Only Contact Objects that are not included in any Domain Name Record ("orphans") can be deleted.
Attempting to delete a Contact Object that is included in at least one Domain Name Record will result in an error.

Result

Upon a successful deletion of a Contact Object can not be used in any subsequent request. The deleted Contact Object can not be restored.

Code Example

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<epp xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:epp-1.0"
xmlns:isocil="http://www.isoc.org.il/xml/epp/isocil-1.0"
xmlns:contact="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:contact-1.0"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:epp-1.0 epp-1.0.xsd
http://www.isoc.org.il/xml/epp/isocil-1.0 isocil-1.0.xsd
urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:contact-1.0 contact-1.0.xsd">
    <command>
        <delete>
            <contact:delete>
                <contact:id>AB-SR5933-IL</contact:id>
            </contact:delete>
        </delete>
        <clTRID>AB-123002</clTRID>
    </command>
</epp>

Legend

• <contact:delete>:

  Defines that the desired Registration Action, delete a Contact Object, where:

  • <contact:id>: The deleted Contact's Handle.
  • <clTRID>: AR's transaction identifier

Tags occurrence table

Tag	Occurrences (MIN-MAX)	Size + Remarks
<epp>	1
<command>	1
<delete>	1
<contact:delete>	1
<contact:id>	1	Must be an existing contact handle, belonging to the requesting AR. Only domain contacts can be deleted. There are 2 viable structures: 1. XX-XX#-IL, where XX represents the 2 capital letters representing the regisrar, and # represents a string of numbers; 2. 3 characters of capital letters or hyphen, followed by numbers. Total length may not exceed 30 characters.
<clTRID>	1	Must start with 2 capital letters representing the registrar, followed by a hyphen (-) and a string of numbers. Must be unique per request. Total length may not exceed 30 characters.

Additional Response Data (<resData> block)

The Server's response upon the successful completion of delete contact Request:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<epp>
    <response>
        <result>
            <code>1000</code>
            <msg>Command completed successfully (contact requestid=C82)</msg>
        </result>
        <resData>
            <contact:delData>
                <contact:id>SS-AM11639-IL</contact:id>
                <contact:crDate>2005-10-31T11:25:00.000Z</contact:crDate>
            </contact:delData>
        </resData>
        <trID>
            <clTRID>SS-5</clTRID>
            <svTRID>ISOCIL-SS37 20051031112800</svTRID>
        </trID>
    </response>
</epp>

Legend - SUCCESS message response

• <contact:delData>: Information on the deletion of the Contact Object, where:
  • <contact:id>: Specifies the Contact's Handle.
  • <contact:creDate>: Specifies the creation time of the Contact Object, in XML dateTime format.