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Supplemental Rules for Restrictions Dispute Resolution Policy (the "Supplemental RDRP Rules")

1. Purpose. Administrative proceedings for the resolution of disputes under the Restrictions Dispute Resolution Policy ("RDRP"; <URL>) shall be governed by the Rules for Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy ("UDRP Rules"; ) as supplemented or modified by these Supplemental Rules for Restrictions Dispute Resolution Policy (the "Supplemental RDRP Rules") and any supplemental rules of the dispute resolution service provider administering the proceedings.

2. Definitions. Defined terms in the UDRP Rules shall have the same meaning in these Supplemental RDRP Rules, subject to the following:

(a) Complaint based on UDRP and RDRP. If a complaint is based on the UDRP and the RDRP, the term "Policy" shall refer to the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy ("UDRP") and the RDRP, and the term "Rules" shall refer to the UDRP Rules as supplemented or modified by these Supplemental RDRP Rules.

(b) Complaint based on the RDRP alone. If a complaint is based on the RDRP alone, the term "Policy" shall refer to the RDRP, and the term "Rules" shall refer to the UDRP Rules as supplemented or modified by these Supplemental RDRP Rules.

3. RDRP Grounds. A complaint pursuant to the RDRP (whether or not also based on the UDRP) shall describe, in accordance with Paragraph 4(a)-(c), the grounds on which the complaint is made including, in particular, the extent to which the domain name is not being or will not be used primarily for a bona fide business or commercial purpose.

Domain Name System
Internationalized Domain Name ,IDN,"IDNs are domain names that include characters used in the local representation of languages that are not written with the twenty-six letters of the basic Latin alphabet ""a-z"". An IDN can contain Latin letters with diacritical marks, as required by many European languages, or may consist of characters from non-Latin scripts such as Arabic or Chinese. Many languages also use other types of digits than the European ""0-9"". The basic Latin alphabet together with the European-Arabic digits are, for the purpose of domain names, termed ""ASCII characters"" (ASCII = American Standard Code for Information Interchange). These are also included in the broader range of ""Unicode characters"" that provides the basis for IDNs. The ""hostname rule"" requires that all domain names of the type under consideration here are stored in the DNS using only the ASCII characters listed above, with the one further addition of the hyphen ""-"". The Unicode form of an IDN therefore requires special encoding before it is entered into the DNS. The following terminology is used when distinguishing between these forms: A domain name consists of a series of ""labels"" (separated by ""dots""). The ASCII form of an IDN label is termed an ""A-label"". All operations defined in the DNS protocol use A-labels exclusively. The Unicode form, which a user expects to be displayed, is termed a ""U-label"". The difference may be illustrated with the Hindi word for ""test"" — परीका — appearing here as a U-label would (in the Devanagari script). A special form of ""ASCII compatible encoding"" (abbreviated ACE) is applied to this to produce the corresponding A-label: xn--11b5bs1di. A domain name that only includes ASCII letters, digits, and hyphens is termed an ""LDH label"". Although the definitions of A-labels and LDH-labels overlap, a name consisting exclusively of LDH labels, such as""icann.org"" is not an IDN."