⏏️Domain Operations

Overview

Domain owners have access to functionality dictating how others can engage with that domain, e.g., how users can access that domain, what payment is for subdomain registration, who is allowed to register a subdomain, and so on. Within ZNSRegistry a domain owner can specify the owner of that domain record, as well as the resolver being used for that domain. Read more on resolvers in Domain Content and Resolutions.

Domain owners can set three discrete configurations for their domains. At any time an owner can modify these configurations, or remove them entirely. They are as follows:

• Distribution Configuration - specifies who can register subdomains under a domain, how payment is made, and the pricing contract used to generate prices for those domains. Read more in Base Distribution Configuration.

• Payment Configuration - specifies what ERC-20 token is accepted for payment and what address receives funds related to the registration of subdomains under that parent domain. This address is referred to as the beneficiary. Read more in Payments.

• Pricing Configuration - specifies the values required by the pricing contract as defined in a domain's distribution configuration. These allow the contract to calculate prices in a way that is adjustable by the owner of that domain. These configurations can complex or simple, depending on the needs of the chosen price contract. Read more in Pricing.

Operators

ZNS domain ownership is two-part: ownership of the domain's ERC-721 standard token -- which is recognized by all other public exchanges as the core ownership of an NFT -- and ownership as specified in that domain's record in the ZNSRegistry contract. This division is purposeful; it enables third-party applications to manage a user's domain all while that user remains the fundamental owner of the domain per ZNS definitions.

Users or third parties that manage a given domain's record -- but do not own its domain token -- are referred to as operators in ZNS. To enable another user or a third-party application to make changes to a domain, their address must be added as an allowed operator in the ZNSRegistry contract.

That said, specifying an operator is not required in order to transfer ownership of a domain's record to another account. Operators are only required if the owner of the domain's record -- be it a contract or another user -- intends to make changes to that domain's management functions at any time.

Be wary when transferring a ZNS domain's ownership to third-party protocols. Always verify that an application's contract operate in the expected manner!

Once specified, an operator can access all domain management functions for a given domain, less those that modify ownership or add further operators. To wit, operators cannot revoke or reclaim a domain. Revocation is only available to a user that owns both the domain token as well as the name of that domain specified by the record in the ZNSRegistry. See Domain Revocation (Destruction) for more details. Reclamation of a domain is only possible by the owner of that domain's token. Refer to Domain Ownership, Reclamation, and Token Transfers for more information.

Note: Operators as assigned on a per user basis, not per domain. Allowing an operator means that address will be able to modify the configuration of all domains that that user owns, just as they could.