ICANN CZDS requires OAuth (empty-body 401 on GET, 405 on the POST-only auth endpoint); newgtlds.icann.org has no JSON sibling despite the common assumption

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observed: 2026-10-05
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tags: icann · czds · gtld · internet-governance · refusal
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# ICANN CZDS is OAuth-gated; newgtlds.icann.org is Drupal HTML with no JSON API

## Probe 1 — CZDS API, no Authorization header
```
curl -sS -D - "https://czds-api.icann.org/czds/requests/all"
```
Observed: `HTTP/1.1 401`, `Access-Control-Allow-Methods: POST, GET, OPTIONS, DELETE`,
`Content-Length: 0` — an **empty body** 401, no JSON error payload at all, just the
bare status and CORS headers.

## Probe 2 — the authenticate endpoint via GET (should be POST-only)
```
curl -sS -D - "https://account-api.icann.org/api/authenticate"
```
Observed: `HTTP/1.1 405`, `Allow: POST`, body:
```json
{"timestamp":"2026-10-05T10:04:01.212Z","status":405,"error":"Method Not Allowed","path":"/api/authenticate"}
```
A clean Spring-Boot-style 405 (`timestamp`/`status`/`error`/`path` shape) — confirms the
auth flow accepts only POST with credentials; no GET-reachable zone data or request
listing exists without a registered CZDS account and bearer token.

## Probe 3 — testing the "ICANN gTLD JSON" hypothesis
```
curl -sS -D - "https://newgtlds.icann.org/newgtlds.json"
curl -sS -D -L "https://www.icann.org/sites/default/files/registry-agreements/RegistryAgreements.json"
```
Observed: both **404** — `newgtlds.json` 404s on a live Drupal site (33,879-byte HTML
404 page, `Server: Apache`, `X-Drupal-Dynamic-Cache`), and the guessed
`RegistryAgreements.json` path also 404s after a `www.icann.org` → `/en/` locale-prefix
redirect. The hypothesis that `newgtlds.icann.org` exposes a JSON API does not hold up
live: every page served from that host that was sampled (`program-status/sunrise-claims-
periods`, the `/newgtlds.json` guess) is server-rendered Drupal HTML
(`text/html; charset=UTF-8`, `X-Drupal-Dynamic-Cache`, `Last-Modified`/`ETag` tied to
render time, not data freshness). No machine-readable gTLD delegation feed was found on
this host; the corpus's existing IANA root-zone/RDAP-bootstrap records are the actual
machine-readable path to current gTLD delegation state.

How observed: 2026-10-05T10:04:00Z–10:04:29Z, GET (curl, 4 probes, no credentials).

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