PNS Domain Authorities

For PKT domain staking, domains get a bonus if they are registered in different jurisdictions. The logic is as follows:

1. 100% divided by the number of domain stakers using the same TLD Authority, PLUS
2. 100% divided by the number of domain stakers using the same Registrar, PLUS
3. 100% divided by the number of domain stakers with the same Country

TLD Authority

A TLD authority is the organization which manages the top level domain. As you can see in the file tld_authorities.json, .ACTOR, .AIRFORCE, .ARMY, and .ATTORNEY are all operated by the same organization, Dog Beach, LLC.

That means domains registered under all of those TLDs are still under the administrative authority of the same person.

Registrar

Those who register domains are probably more familiar with the registrar than the TLD authority. Registrars act as a liason between the customer and the TLD Authority. Since the registrar is technically the one who makes the request to the TLD Authority, they also have the power to disable a domain if they want to.

The list of registrars is found in registrars.json

Country

Both the TLD Authority and the Registrar are organizations which have domicile in some country or another. For the purpose of deciding what a domain's Country is, we take the less advantageous of the two.

So for example, if the Registrar is in an obscure country, but the TLD Authority is in a popular country, the domain's Country is the country of the TLD Authority.

Files and Generation

The files tld_authorities.json and registrars.json are both generated (by gen_tld_authorities.js and gen_registrars.json respectively). These are generated from the ICANN database.

1. Accredited-Registrars-XXXXX.csv - From: https://www.icann.org/en/accredited-registrars?view-all=true&page=1
2. tlds.txt - From: https://data.iana.org/TLD/tlds-alpha-by-domain.txt
3. tld_whois/*.txt - Generated with the command below:

cat ./tlds.txt | grep -v '^\#' | while read x; do
    if ! [ -e "$x.txt" ]; then
        echo $x
        whois $x > ./tld_whois/$x.txt
    fi
done