Operational Testing Environment (OTE)
About OTE
The Operational Testing Environment (OTE) is an environment provided to registrars to test and validate how systems interact with IRS without affecting production data.
It is important to note that the IRS OTE environment is not complete and some settings may change. If you encounter any issues or problems please let our support team know.
OTE has no production data or any test data pre-seeded for you. You will need to start with creating contact and host objects and then create some domains to do your testing.
Note
In the event that we need to rebuild this environment, you may lose your test data, we will try to give you plenty of advance notice.
To assist in testing please refer to the IRS Registrar Guide
Servers and Ports
Interface |
Server/URL |
IP |
Port |
TCP/UDP |
Protocol |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Portal |
103.70.24.8 |
443 |
TCP |
HTTP over TLS |
|
EPP |
epp.ote.irs.net.nz |
103.70.24.9 |
700 |
TCP |
EPP over mTLS |
Droplist |
tbr.ote.irs.net.nz |
103.70.24.10 |
700 |
TCP |
EPP over mTLS |
API |
api.ote.irs.net.nz |
103.70.24.11 |
443 |
TCP |
HTTP over TLS |
WHOIS |
whois.ote.irs.net.nz |
103.70.24.11 |
43 |
TCP |
WHOIS |
Platform Instances
The OTE environment under normal operation has one instances deployed, located in Hamilton. See facilities.
Domain lifecycle settings
Grace period for renewals, and registrations have been set to 1 day (they are 5 days in production).
The auto-renewal grace period has also been set to 1 day (45 days in production)
The Redemption Grace Period (Pending Release) has been set to 2 days (90 days in production). Please see the Domain Lifecycle Status section in the Glossary page.
This has been done to assist you to simulate lifecycle testing in a shorter timetable.
Version Release and updates
New releases of IRS software will be deployed to the OTE environment for a defined testing period prior to the production environment deployment.
With each new release we will post changes to IRS Release Changelog
Questions and Queries
Please forward any questions or queries to registry@internetnz.net.nz You can also ask questions over the Slack channel