Successful domain registration requires:

• domain's contact handles (owner, administrative, etc.)
• owner handle requires additional data
  • individuals - Tax number
  • company - VAT number
• two or more nameservers or a nameserver group

Get acquainted with the name policy (Article 10) while registering name (non-compliant domains are deleted with no refunds).

IMPORTANT NOTE :

Due special requirements with .pt registry, we must set ourselves (Openprovider) as Admin / Tech Contact in order to provide proactive support.

After registration, the owner and technical contact will receive 2 emails:

• Information about the domain status
• Information about the assignment of the contacts to the domain name.

The second contains all registration data. If the holder isn't assigned to another domain, then "NicHandle" from the document is required for future owner changes.

Note on identification data

1. If the ID is in use with an existing contact, the registry will use existing contact rather than any new contact that you are creating.
2. If a company is trading under different names, but with the same identification number as a result, the contacts always collide and the name cannot easily be registered on the right data. Contact support@openprovider.com in such cases.
3. ID/VAT must always correspond to the country where the company/person is registered ("X" country VAT cannot be associated with a contact with a "Y" country address, country and VAT must belong to the same country).
4. Invalidated holder gets email with the subject "Rectification of domain owner contact".
5. If the documentation for owner update is not resent within 48 hours, the registry deletes the domain.

This transfer requires the following information:

• authorization code (validity: 8-30 days)
• domain's contact handles (owner, administrative, etc.)
• two or more nameservers or a nameserver group

If the current registrar can not provide an auth code, request it from the registry.

Note : 
The transfer will not initiate an owner change.
You need to transfer the domain using the handle which matches exactly with the current owner.

Owner change (trade)

The process of how to initiate a .pt trade is given in this article.

Other update

• nameservers should be preconfigured
• administrative / technical contact is always the registrar - cannot be updated.
  (See Registration Section)

Delete

• set auto-renewal to OFF
• domain will expire at its expiration date.
• to explicitly delete a domain, send a request via RCP/API.

Domain owner will get an email about this request and will have 8 days to decline it.
If the domain owner declines the deletion request, the domain will remain active in one's account.

Restore / reactivate

• reactivation - within 28 days after expiration
• explicit deletion prohibits reactivation
  • wait until the domain is free again and re-register it