SRS Release 8.0 to 8.6
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The following covers the important, registrar affecting changes that occured in releases 8.0 to 8.6 of the SRS.


EPP Session Lifetime
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The maximum lifetime of an EPP session is now limited to 1 day after which the server will automatically close the connection.


DNS Delegation Loop Prevention
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It is no longer possible to specify name-servers that cause an in-zone DNS delegation loop.

A DNS delegation loop is when a domain names used by a name-server in DNS delegation path contains domain name being created or updated.


Disallow Duplicate DNS Glue
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It is no longer possible to specify name-servers that have duplicate IPv4 or IPv6 DNS glue records.


Unused Handle Deletion
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Contact handles that have not been linked to a domain for over 90 days are now automatically deleted.


EPP Session Connection Limits
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Registrars are now limited to 10 concurrent authenticated EPP connections. An 2502 error code will be returned if a registrar has exceeded the limit.