.EU SEMINAR

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.EU SEMINAR
ICANN Luxembourg July 12th 2005
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Agenda
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AGENDA

• Who are we ?
• The legal framework
• Registrar Model
• Procedures model
• The registrar agreement for accreditation
• Some figures
• Registration Model
  
• Sunrise
  
• Rules
  
• Procedures ADR
• Live Demo
  
• Our Partner PWC
• ADR
  
• Timing for .eu launching
• Questions
  

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I. Who Are We ?
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I. WHO ARE WE?

• EUropean Registry for Internet Domains
•   a registry focused organisation based on the
  relevant experience from these organisations to
  run such a registry in a real not-for-profit
  spirit  
• Founding members
• DNS Belgium (registry of .be),
• Istituto di Informatica e Telematica (registry of
  .it)
• NIC SE (registry of .se)
• Effective members
• CZ NIC (registry of .cz)
• Arnes (registry of .sl)

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II. The Legal Framework
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II. THE LEGAL FRAMEWORK

• Regulation 733/2002
• Published 22/4/2002
• Commission Regulation 874/2004 (PPR)
• Published 30/4/2004
• The principles what is allowed
• The Registry procedures Q3 2005
• How to register
• Terms Conditions Q3 2005
• For registrars and registrants

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II. THE LEGAL FRAMEWORK

• Regulation 733/2002
• Registry non-profit organisation
• Registry to establish registration policy
• Large representation in EU
• Registry/registrar model
• No direct registrations
• Contract with registrars
• Public policy must be created
• Involve relevant parties
• To be approved by member states
• Only for residents in E.U.
• Exception lists
• Geographical and/or geopolitical names
• Provisions for phased registrations ( sunrise )
• Allow holders of certain rights to register their
  names upfront
• Establish ADR

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II. THE LEGAL FRAMEWORK

• PPR (Public Policy Rules) 874/2004 (update of
  Reg. 733/2002)
• Defined by EC and member states
• Defines principles
• Who can register which names ?
• Who are the registrars ?
• Phased registrations
• Alternative Dispute Resolution
• Reserved / Blocked lists
• Bona Vacantia
• Registration procedures

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III. Registrar Model
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III. REGISTRAR MODEL EC REGULATION 874/2004
Provisions for Registrars

• No geographical limitations for registrars but
• Must be accredited by registry
• Must offer agreements under a EU law
• EU data protection
• Can only take pre-registrations when accredited
• Must submit applications in the order in which
  they were taken
• .EU Registrations can only start if it is
  possible to register in any one of the 20
  official EU languages

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III. REGISTRAR MODEL BECOMING A .eu REGISTRAR

• EURid facilities
• on-line application procedures in all 20 EU
  languages http//www.eurid.eu/Registraraccredita
  tion
• Agreement has 1 year term renewable annually
• registrar guidelines and online account
  management tools in English
• Telephone and email support in
• 6 languages since July 1st
• 20 EU languages from Q4 2005 on

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III. REGISTRAR MODEL REGISTRAR AGREEMENT key
requirements

• In respect of registrants
• Guarantee that the holder has accepted EURid
  registrant Terms and Conditions when registering
• Guarantee that the holder meets the requirements
  to obtain or renew a name (particularly those in
  the EC regs. 733/2002 874/2004)
• Inform the holder of all information received
  from EURid which might influence the holders
  contractual relationship with the registry
  (particularly regarding potential termination of
  the domain name registration)

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III. REGISTRAR MODEL REGISTRAR AGREEMENT key
requirements

• In respect of registrants
• Submit the data of the end-user requesting a
  domain name (not the data of the registrar)
  including e-mail address
• Registrars may register names for themselves but
  will refrain from warehousing
• Not in any way initiate or assist in the selling
  or transfer of a name without using the correct
  EURid procedures.

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III. REGISTRAR MODEL REGISTRAR AGREEMENT
Advance payment

• Registrar to make an advance payment of at least
  10,000 (ten thousand)
• From this account registration fees deducted
  immediately and renewal fees deducted at the end
  of the month in which due
• At the end of each month, the registrar will be
  invoiced for that months activities
• All names not deleted by the end of the due month
  will automatically be renewed and invoiced
• If the account reaches zero no further
  registrations can be made until the invoice is
  paid.
• Generally, if an organisation ceases to be a .eu
  registrar any unused money on their account will
  be refunded at the end of the agreement term.

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III. REGISTRAR MODEL HOW THE PREPAYMENT WORKS
payment of invoice
payment of pre-pay amount
payment of invoice
registrations
renewals
account status
time
end of month
end of month
system stops
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III. REGISTRAR MODEL REGISTRAR AGREEMENT Table
of fees (indication)

• Registration fees
• New domain name - I year registration 10
• Renewal of domain name registration 10
• Fee upon transfer from another registrar /or
  registrant 10
• (treated as a new registration)
• Reactivation of a name in quarantine (40-day
  period after deletion) 20
• Sunrise application fees
• Claiming public body status 35
• Holder of registered trademarks( family names
  where appl) 45
• Holder of other prior rights 85
• Where validation does not take place due to
  earlier applicant being successful, sunrise fee
  to be returned to registrar, subject to a 15
  cost
• All fee indications are provisional

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III. REGISTRAR MODEL PUBLICATION OF REGISTRAR
LIST

• List of accredited registrars published on our
  website
• Registrar can opt out of being published
• List is also viewable by
• Country of registrar
• Language supported
• Alphabetically
• Second criterion for sort will be date/time of
  application (completed within timescales)

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III. REGISTRAR MODEL
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IV. Registration Model
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IV. REGISTRATION MODELBASIC PRINCIPLE

• First come first served
• Minimum 2 characters
• Exceptions
• Reserved lists countries, registry, EC
• Blocked lists names not allowed at the first
  level xxx.eu
• Phased registration
• 2 letter names representing  cc 
• All other names are allowed no proof needed
  after  sunrise 
• Companies, organisations, people residing in E.U.

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IV. REGISTRATION MODEL HOW?
registrant
myname
electronic form
confirmation
registrar
registry
myname
fully automated 24/24 and 7/7
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IV. REGISTRATION MODEL WHOIS

• Whois and privacy policy being drafted in
  consultation with the European Commission
• EURid model requires valid email address
• Confirmation sought from holder when requests for
  transfers received
• Important for holder to be able to check email
  address
• Measures put in place to avoid automated data
  capture

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IV. REGISTRATION MODEL TRANSFER TO NEW REGISTRAR
approval online or by fax/letter
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registrant
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electronic form  transfer 
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myname
confirmation
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new registrar
registry
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changeregistrar
E-mail requesting approval for transfer to new
registrar
inform  old registrar
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old registrar
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III. REGISTRAR MODEL REGISTRAR AGREEMENT CHOICE
OF REGISTRAR

• Domain name holder has right to change registrar
• transfer initiated by new registrar
• Becomes effective if
• holder confirms within 14 days
• Data checked by registry is OK
• Registration fee deducted from new registrar
• No refund of fee paid to old registrar (whole or
  in part)
• If holder wishes to transfer the name to another
  party, their registrar initiates trade
• Same procedures as for transfer but both existing
  and new holder asked to confirm
• New registrar pays registration fee

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IV. REGISTRATION MODEL TRANSFER TO ANOTHER
REGISTRAR
approval online or by fax/letter
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electronic form  transfer registrant 
buyer
confirmation
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new registrar
registry
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changeregistrant
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E-mail requesting approval
myname
approval online or by fax/letter
inform  old registrar
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seller
old registrar
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V. Sunrise
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V. SUNRISEPHASED REGISTRATIONS

• Why ?
• To allow those with prior rights the opportunity
  to protect their names
• To prevent the abuses witnessed in .com and
  others
• To ensure a quality domain name and enhance the
  reputation of .eu

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V. SUNRISETWO PHASES

• Phase I TM public bodies
• Requested name should correspond exactly with
  name for which right is claimed
• Spaces omitted or replaced by  - 
• Other characters (_at_,,,) omitted, replaced
  by  -  or transcribed
• Phase II Other rights
• All names applied for blocked until validation
  completed

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V. SUNRISETHE PHASES
2 Send link to cover page 6 inform of
registration
myname.eu
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confirmation id
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registry
registrar
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myname.eu
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electronic application form
registered
documentary evidence (40 days)
add receipt date
Domain
validation
Recvd
agent
Registr
decision
Right
Docs recvd
15/12/2005
Decision
Approved
SUNRISE DATABASE
daily worklist
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V. SUNRISEMULTIPLE APPLICATIONS
Eurosales ag (DE)
British Engine Ltd
Eurosales sa (FR)
Everybody
Mr X
be.eu
view queue per domain
09/01/2006
eurosales001 - Mr X addr.
03/12/05-100747 CY 11/01/06 - PEN
eurosales002 Eurosales SA addr.
03/12/05-100749 CY 11/01/06 - PEN
eurosales003 Eurosales AG addr.
03/12/05-112204 CY 11/01/06 PEN
be 001 British Engine addr.
29/11/05-150754 CY 08/01/06 REJD
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SUNRISE WHOIS Examples
Domain name eurosales.eu
Date 06/12/05
Name Mr. X Company - Address Main
Street, 5 1000 Brussels Country
Belgium E-mail mr-x_at_best.com Tel. 32 12
345678
Order in queue Time/date received applicant Deadline for paper work Paper work received right claimed status Application number
1 03/12/05-100747 Mr. X 11/01/06 - CY pending 0015435
2 03/12/05-100749 Eurosales SA 11/01/06 - CY pending 0015489
3 03/12/05-112214 Eurosales AG 11/01/06 05/12/05 CY pending 0015639
Deadline for paperwork calculated by the system
( 40 days)
Automatically set upon receipt of (electronic)
application form
Entered by the Validation Agent
Not publicly visible
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SUNRISE WHOIS Examples
Domain name eurosales.eu
Date 20/12/2005
Order in queue Time/date Received applicant Deadline for paper work Paper work received right claimed status Application number
1 03/12-100747 Mr. X 11/01/06 - CY pending 0015435
2 03/12/05-100749 Eurosales SA 11/01/06 12/12/05 CY pending 0015489
3 03/12/05-112204 Eurosales AG 11/01/06 05/12/05 CY pending 0015639
This name will not be evaluated because deadline
for entering documentary evidence for first on
the list has not expired.
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SUNRISE WHOIS Examples
Domain name eurosales.eu
Date 14/01/2006
Order in queue Time/date received applicant Deadline for paper work Paper work received right claimed status Application number
1 03/12/05-100747 Mr. X 11/01/06 - CY EXPIRED 0015435
2 03/12/05-100749 Eurosales SA 11/01/06 12/12/05 CY pending 0015489
3 03/12/05-112204 Eurosales AG 11/01/06 05/12/05 CY pending 0015639
The first on the list did not enter his documents
within the required period ? evaluation starts
with next in the list Eurosales SA
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SUNRISE WHOIS Examples
Domain name eurosales.eu
Date 18/01/2006
Order in queue Time/date received applicant Deadline for paper work Paper work received right claimed status Application number
1 03/12/05-100747 Mr. X 11/01/06 - CY EXPIRED 0015435
2 03/12/05-100749 Eurosales SA 11/01/06 12/12/05 CY APPROVED 0015489
3 03/12/05-112204 Eurosales AG 11/01/06 05/12/05 CY pending 0015639
When approved, all remaining applications are
automatically invalidated. Approved name is
registered after 40 day waiting period.
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Live Demo
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V. SUNRISE - OUR PARTNER PWC AS A VALIDATOR

• PwC Belgium will take up the role to validate the
  documentary evidence to be provided by domain
  name applicants during the Sunrise Period.
• PWC has a large knowledge and expertise in the
  field of intellectual property rights
• Validations done by an expert team drawn from all
  25 EU countries
• Deployment of a state-of-the-art technological
  infrastructure
• !! neither EURid, nor PwC accept, archive or
  validate any alleged documentary evidence of
  prior rights for the time being.
• More information
• http//www.validation.pwc.be. E-mail
  validation_at_pwc.be.

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VI. ADR
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VI. ADR REGULATION 874/2004 - art 21

• ADR enforced through TC
• What is an abuse ?
• When a domain name is identical or confusingly
  similar to a name () on which a right is
  recognized () AND
• was registered without rights or legitimate
  interests in the name by its holderOR the
  domain name has been registered or is being used
  in bad faith.
• The results are binding unless court proceedings
  are initiated within 30 days of the notification
  of the result

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VI. ADRTIMELINE
complaint filed fee paid
30 days
3 days
1 month
5 days
30 days
ADR provider inform domain name holder domain
name suspended
Days working days
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VI. ADRSUNRISE ADR MECHANISM (1)

• The sunrise ADR is an ADR against a decision of
  the registry / validation agent
• The applicant who gets a negative decision, can
  start ADR against that decision
• When the decision is overruled, that applicant
  will get the name
• When the decision is confirmed, the process
  continues (validating the rest of the queue)
• In case of a positive decision
• All applicants lower in the queue will be
  informed by e-mail
• They can start ADR against the decision
• When the decision is overruled, the next in the
  queue has to be evaluated

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VI. ADRSUNRISE ADR MECHANISM (2)
TIMELINE
Queue for
domain  abc 
APPL1 rejected
DAY 1

1. APPL1
2. APPL2
3. APPL3
4. APPL4
5. APPL5
6. APPL6

has 40 days for ADR against decision
VA continues with next in queue
APPL2 approved
DAY 5
start of 40 day waiting period
all applicants are informed by e-mail
NO ADR started
DAY 45
Domain name registered for APPL2
end of validation for domain name  abc 
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VI. ADRSUNRISE ADR MECHANISM (3)
TIMELINE
Queue for
domain  abc 
APPL1 rejected
DAY 1

1. APPL1
2. APPL2
3. APPL3
4. APPL4
5. APPL5
6. APPL6

has 40 days for ADR against decision
VA continues with next in queue
APPL2 approved
DAY 5
start of 40 day waiting period
all applicants are informed by e-mail
APPL1 files for ADR
DAY 37
all procedures  on hold  until ADR decision
RULING FROM ADR
DAY 85
decision correct resume validations
decision overruled name attributed to APPL1
end of validation for domain name  abc 
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VI. ADRSUNRISE ADR MECHANISM (4)
TIMELINE
Queue for
APPL1 rejected
domain  abc 
DAY 1
has 40 days for ADR against decision

1. APPL1
2. APPL2
3. APPL3
4. APPL4
5. APPL5
6. APPL6

VA continues with next in queue
APPL2 approved
DAY 5
start of 40 day waiting period
all applicants are informed by e-mail
APPL6 files for ADR
DAY 37
all procedures  on hold  until ADR decision
RULING FROM ADR
DAY 85
decision correct name attributed to APPL2
(after 40 day waiting period)
decision overruled validations resumed with
APPL3 !!
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VI. ADRSUNRISE ADR MECHANISM (5)
TIMELINE
Queue for
APPL1 rejected
domain  abc 
DAY 1

1. APPL1
2. APPL2
3. APPL3
4. APPL4
5. APPL5
6. APPL6

APPL2 rejected
DAY 5
APPL3 APPROVED
DAY 6
ADR started by APPL5
DAY12
ADR ruling (in case APPL5)
DAY30
decision correct continue 40 day waiting period
decision overruled validations resumed with
APPL4 !!
ADR started by (APPL2)
DAY44
RULING from ADR (in case APPL2)
DAY93
decision correct return to normal procedure
decision overruled name attributed to APPL2
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VI. ADR -OUR PARTNERCZECH ARBITRATION COURT

• Czech Arbitration Court to provide Alternative
  Dispute Resolution for .eu domain names in the 20
  official languages of the European Union
• a not-for-profit organisation founded in 1949,
  already provides ADR for domain names disputes in
  the Czech top level domain registry (.cz)
• more information about the Czech Arbitration
  Court at http//www.arbcourt.cz
• more information about the Central European
  Advisory Group at http//www.ceag.biz

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VII. Timing for .eu launching
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VII. TIMING FOR .EU LAUNCHINGPREPARE SUNRISE
June 16th Start registrar accreditation
Announcement of sunrise
.eu in the root
Terms and conditions available in all languages
Prepare SUNRISE consult stakeholders
Document validation rules, ADR procedures,
Registration policy
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VII. TIMING FOR .EU LAUNCHING PHASED
REGISTRATIONS
all registrations
Min. 2 months
2 months
2 months
validations of prior rights by V.A.
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VIII. Questions
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ContactRegistrar enquiries registrar_at_eurid.eu
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urid.eu
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