The "Account Overview" tool gives a full overview of all transactions to date performed by a partner. The information can be investigated at a number of levels:

• Statement
• Invoice
• Product
• Transaction
• Domain history

The tool also comprises a full portfolio search capability. The results can be filtered on a number of parameters:

• Domain name
• Domain handle
• Top Level Domain, TLD
• status (Active, Expired, Pending, Queued, Deleted)
• Creation/expiry date
• Filter by Domains not Invoiced, or Domains for renewal

This of course give the partner the ability to find, for example, all domains in the portfolio that are due for renewal within the coming time period. The results can be exported to, for example, MS Excel.
The tool has a special function that allows price calculations. I.e. "If I were to register this set of domains (mixed transactions and TLDs), how much would it cost?". This is a very useful function for pricing to corporate customers based on their requirements.

The "AscioNIC Domain Handling" tool allows the partner access to all of the essential functions required to manage the domains in the portfolio. The high level functions are as follows:

• Search
• Simple domain availability search.
• Search the WHOIS database on registered domains.
• Search AscioNIC directory on AscioNIC handles.
• Manage
• Domain name
• Name server
• Contact handles
• Create
• New handle
• Domain name (with handles only)
• Domain name (full form)
• Transfer
• Domain name

The AscioNIC Order Tracking" tool enables the partners to follow the progress of a domain on which an action has been requested. Domain(s) in the portfolio can be found through various search criteria:

• By domain name
• By order status:
• Received, Completed, Failed
• Pending Documentation, NIC Processing, NIC Document Approval
• All Order status

All domains pending particular actions (product requests) can be found, Product Request Types can be:

• Register, Modify, Transfer, Renew, Expire, Un-expire, Delete, Queue Domain
• Defensive Registration
• Name Watch
• All Product requests

The "AscioNIC Domain Transfer" tool allows a partner to easily create transfer orders to be processed by the AscioNIC system. Individual or multiple domains with mixed TLDs can be entered simultaneously into a very simple five step process:

• Enter domain(s) - these can be imported 'en masse'
• Review - any domains that are not in the partner portfolio, or are not supported are flagged
• Enter Authorisation Codes for .biz & .info (.org) domains (codes available from the authorisation tool)
• Add Comments - these will be entered into a field on the template
• Confirm

Supported TLDs are: .com, .net, .org, .biz, .info, .us
Internationalised Domain Names, IDNs, supported

The "AscioNIC Get Authorisation Code" tool enable partners to retrieve the transfer authorisation codes for single or multiple domains from mixed TLDs simultaneously. Transfers of BIZ/INFO/NAME/US/ORG Domain Names are not possible without these codes. These codes can be used directly with the Transfer tool. Only codes from the partners own portfolio may be retrieved.

The "AscioNIC IDN Conversion tool" facilitates Puny encoding of Unicode characters. This function is necessary to convert domain names carrying special characters into the appropriate code for entry into the registration templates for Internationalised Domain Name registrations of .COM and .NET.

Single or multiple domains can be converted simultaneously for both .COM and .NET. There is also an API available to partners to allow them to use this functionality on their own sites.

This tool is available to all: click here to run the tool.

The "Availability Quality Check" shows whether a registry is live, and can provide the requested look-ups with the expected quality. This tool indicates which information source can be accessed by the Availability Check. This indicates the quality of the result from the product:

• Four quality levels
• Speed = Look up available on cached zone data
• Smart = Speed check if cache is fresh – otherwise NS look-up
• Smart-Live = Speed check or NS look-up or live check
• Live = External lookups at the Registry available

The "AscioDNS" tool is a DNS hosting solution integrated with the AscioNIC domain registration engine. Access to management of the ZONE is controlled by a user-friendly web-based management interface which supports the following functions:

• DNS management
• Mail forwarding
• Mail hosting
• URL Forwarding

Name Servers are physically placed on different subnets and in different locations for redundancy and security. Read more about AscioDNS.