EPP status code list explainer

{
  "tool": "epp-status-list-explainer-paste",
  "input": {
    "codes": "example.com: clientTransferProhibited serverHold\nexample.net, ok"
  },
  "result": {
    "verdict": {
      "tone": "danger",
      "headline": "3 codes explained across 2 domains",
      "summary": "At least one of these codes needs acting on rather than filing."
    },
    "findings": [
      {
        "id": "resolution-stopped",
        "severity": "fail",
        "title": "serverHold: the name stops resolving",
        "detail": "A hold is not a billing state — it takes the domain out of DNS, so mail and the website stop at the same moment. The registry itself has stopped publishing this domain in DNS, so it will not resolve no matter what the registrar or owner wants.",
        "fix": "Treat any domain carrying one of these as down now: whoever placed the hold — the registrar for a client hold, the registry for a server one — is the only party who can lift it."
      },
      {
        "id": "transfer-lock-present",
        "severity": "info",
        "title": "At least one transfer lock in this list",
        "detail": "clientTransferProhibited stops the domain moving to another registrar until the lock is lifted. The current registrar has locked the domain against transfer to a different registrar; only that registrar can remove the lock, usually on request."
      },
      {
        "id": "codes-explained",
        "severity": "pass",
        "title": "3 documented codes explained",
        "detail": "Read from 2 line(s) covering 2 domain(s), and grouped below by what each code actually does: transfer lock, hold: it will not resolve, nothing restricting it."
      }
    ],
    "parts": [
      {
        "kind": "facts",
        "title": "What was pasted",
        "rows": [
          [
            "Lines with codes on them",
            "2"
          ],
          [
            "Distinct codes",
            "3"
          ],
          [
            "Documented by an RFC",
            "3"
          ],
          [
            "Not documented",
            "0"
          ]
        ]
      },
      {
        "kind": "table",
        "title": "Every code, explained",
        "columns": [
          "Code",
          "What it does",
          "What it means"
        ],
        "rows": [
          [
            "clientTransferProhibited",
            "Transfer lock",
            "The current registrar has locked the domain against transfer to a different registrar; only that registrar can remove the lock, usually on request."
          ],
          [
            "serverHold",
            "Hold: it will not resolve",
            "The registry itself has stopped publishing this domain in DNS, so it will not resolve no matter what the registrar or owner wants."
          ],
          [
            "ok",
            "Nothing restricting it",
            "The domain resolves normally and nothing is restricting it; RDAP shows this as \"active\" on most registries, but some still answer \"ok\"."
          ]
        ],
        "mono": [
          0
        ],
        "proseColumns": [
          2
        ],
        "note": "One row per distinct code, however many lines it appeared on."
      },
      {
        "kind": "table",
        "title": "By domain, as pasted",
        "columns": [
          "Domain",
          "Codes on that line"
        ],
        "rows": [
          [
            "example.com",
            "clientTransferProhibited serverHold"
          ],
          [
            "example.net",
            "ok"
          ]
        ],
        "mono": [
          0,
          1
        ],
        "note": "Taken from the paste exactly as it arrived; no name here was looked up."
      }
    ],
    "limits": [
      "This is a dictionary, not a check: it explains the codes that were pasted and makes no lookup, so it cannot tell you whether a domain still carries any of them or whether the export was already stale when it was copied.",
      "A code no specification covers is reported as undocumented rather than guessed at. Registries do publish codes of their own outside RFC 5731 and RFC 3915, and only the registry that published one can say what it meant."
    ]
  }
}