Generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) Registry Agreements

gTLD Registry Agreements establish the rights, duties, liabilities, and obligations ICANN requires of registry operators to run gTLDs.

TLD Sponsorship Agreement: Attachment 2 (.museum)

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TLD Sponsorship Agreement: Attachment 2 (.museum)

Posted: 20 August 2001


Delegated Authority

The following areas of responsibility for development of policies for the Sponsored TLD are delegated to the Sponsor, provided the other provisions of the Agreement and its Attachments are followed:

1. Establishment of naming conventions to be used in the Sponsored TLD.

2. Restrictions on what types of people or entities may register Registered Names (which need not be uniform for all names within the Sponsored TLD), provided the scope of the Charter (Attachment 1) is not exceeded.

3. Restrictions on how Registered Names may be used (which need not be uniform for all names within the Sponsored TLD), provided the scope of the Charter (Attachment 1) is not exceeded.

4. Performance of Eligibility and Name-Selection Services (ENS Services), either directly by the Sponsor or by one or more organizations or individuals to which it delegates the responsibility for performing ENS Services, provided that revenues received in connection with ENS Services are used solely to defray the cost of providing ENS Services or otherwise sponsoring the Sponsored TLD, with allowance for accumulation of reasonable operating reserves.

5. Mechanisms for enforcement of the restrictions in items 2 and 3, including procedures for cancellation of registrations. See also Subsection 3.8.3.

6. Mechanisms for resolution of disputes between owners of rights in names (such as trademarks) and registrants that do not supplant ICANN's dispute-resolution policies or remedies that may be available under law.

7. Selection of the Registry Operator (not to be an affiliate of the Sponsor) and establishment of the terms of agreement between Sponsor and the Registry Operator.

8. Functional and performance specifications for, and pricing of, Registry Services.

9. Matters concerning the operation of the registry for the Sponsored TLD.

10. Selection of ICANN-Accredited Registrars to act as registrars for the Sponsored TLD (see Subsection 3.6), consistent with Attachment 9.

11. Terms of agreement to be offered by the Registry Operator to ICANN-Accredited Registrars selected by Sponsor, including provisions for fair treatment by the Registry Operator of those registrars.

12. Practices of ICANN-Accredited Registrars selected by Sponsor with respect to Registered Names and their registration.

13. Terms of agreement between registrars and registrants under which Registered Names are registered.

14. Uses and practices by registrants with respect to Registered Names.

15. Procedures and schedule for the start-up of the Sponsored TLD, provided they are consistent with Attachment 8.

16. Provisions for publication of registry and registrar data consistent with the Sponsorship Agreement and Registrar Accreditation Agreements.

17. Terms of agreement between or among Sponsor, Registry Operator, registrars, and registrants necessary to give effect to the above.

(full economic delegation: competitive unaffiliated registrars)


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