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.name Registry Agreement: Amendment 1

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.name Registry Agreement: Amendment 1

8 August 2003


Amendment No. 1 to Registry Agreement


Amendment No. 1 effective as of 8 August 2003 ("Amendment") to the Registry Agreement dated 31 July 2001 ("Agreement"), by and between the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, a not-for-profit California corporation ("ICANN"), and The Global Name Registry Ltd., a private limited Company incorporated in England and Wales under the Company Number 4076112 ("Registry Operator"). Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have that meaning ascribed to them in the Agreement.

Whereas, on 8 August 2003 the ICANN Board of Directors approved certain revisions to the Agreement to allow implementation of a second level registration product by Registry Operator in the .name registry, on such terms described to the ICANN Board of Directors at the 8 August 2003 meeting of the ICANN Board of Directors;

Whereas, at such 8 August 2003 meeting of the ICANN Board of Directors, the Board authorized the ICANN President and staff to negotiate and implement modifications to Agreement as deemed necessary to provide for the offering of such .name second level registration product by Registry Operator.

Now, therefore, in consideration of the mutual agreements contained herein and intending to be legally bound hereby, the parties hereto amend the Agreement as follows:

  1. Appendix C, parts 0,1,3,4, and 9 to the Agreement are hereby deleted in their entirety and replaced with new form of Appendix C, parts 0,1,3,4,9, as attached hereto.
  2. Appendices F, G, J, K, L, M, O, T, U, and X to the Agreement are hereby each deleted in its entirety and replaced with revised Appendices F, G, J, K, L, M, O, T, U, X as attached hereto.

Except as expressly amended hereby, the Agreement and the Appendices thereto shall remain and continue in full force and effect. This Amendment may be executed in any number of counterparts, all of which together shall constitute one and the same instrument.

The parties have duly executed this Amendment as of the date first written above.

THE INTERNET CORPORATION FOR
ASSIGNED NAMES AND NUMBERS
THE GLOBAL NAME REGISTRY LTD.
By:____________________________ By:_____________________________
Name: Dr. Paul Twomey Name: Geir Rasmussen
Title: President and CEO Title: CEO

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