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[E] Description of TLD
Policies 1
[E] I. GENERAL TLD POLICIES 1
E1. In General. 1
Context of this proposal 1
Development of the Restricted
TLD Concept of .nom 1
Policy elements not specific
to .nom 2
Format 2
Policy objectives 2
Low-cost, Long-Term Personal
Identifier 2
Restricted for Use as Personal
Domain 2
Declaration of nature of name 2
Expected non-commercial
purpose 3
Low-Cost Registration and
Enforcement 3
Long-Term Use 4
E2. TLD String. 4
E3. Naming conventions. 5
Two-Dot Policy 5
Not need for two dots. No repetition of identical
third-level domain 5
Prohibition of certain
potentially confusing third-level labels 5
Minimum length labels policy 6
International names 6
Multilingual domains. 6
Discussion of two-dot policy 6
Common names 6
Cybersquatting 6
Reference value of dotted
sub-strings 6
Quantitative exclusion effect
of two dots policy 7
Discussion of commercial use
issue 7
Possible relaxation in medium
term 7
Initial non-transfer policy 7
E4. Registrars. 8
Registry-Registrar Model 8
Registrar selection criteria 9
Roles of registrars 9
E5. Intellectual Property
Provisions. 9
E5.1. Measures against IP
infringements 9
E5.2. Pre-Screening for
potential IP infringements 10
E5.3. Measures against abusive
registrations 10
Inherent properties of .nom
against abusive registration 10
E5.4. Compliance with existing
IP legislation 11
E5.5. Famous Trademarks
Special Protections 11
Proposed solution 11
Registration of exclusion
requests 11
Challenges to exclusion
request 12
Consolidation of challenges to
exclusion requests 12
Possible result of panel
decisions 13
Evaluation study after one
year of operation 13
Discussion 13
E5.6. Whois Data 14
Data made available publicly 14
Data made available to third
parties with a legitimate interest 14
E6. Dispute Resolution. 14
E6.1. UDRP adapted to .nom 14
Principle 14
Dot nom-adapted UDRP 14
E6.2. Supplemental Dispute
Procedures 15
Exclusion requests 15
E7. Data Privacy, Escrow, and
Whois. 16
Privacy considerations 16
Data management 16
Data shown on the Whois 16
Data input into the registry
by registrars on behalf of customers 16
Data collected by registrar 17
Data Escrow 17
E8. Billing and Collection. 17
E9. Services and Pricing. 17
Registrations and renewals 17
Re-authentication of domain
holder 18
Exclusion requests 18
Additional cost-recovery
charges 18
E10. Other. 18
[E] II. REGISTRATION POLICIES
DURING THE START-UP PERIOD 18
E12. Potential initial rush 19
Objectives and Methodology 19
Centrally managed transparent
application queues 20
Central queues by registrar 20
Transparency 20
Pre-registration application
agreement 21
Limiting the advantage of
early application 21
Randomization of front queue
positions 21
Random end timing of
queue-building phase 21
Round Robin Process 22
E13. No use Rationing Option 22
E14. Price-based Demand
Management 22
E15. Sunrise Period 23
[E] III. REGISTRATION
RESTRICTIONS 23
E17. Registration Criteria 23
E18. Application Process 23
E19. Enforcement Procedures 23
E20. Appeal Process 24
E21. Third Party complaints 24
[E] IV. CONTEXT OF THE TLD
WITHIN THE DNS 25
E23. Differentiation from
other TLDs 25
E24. Target Community 25
E25. Meeting presently unmet needs <