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22 Describe proposed measures for protection of geographic names at the second and other levels in the applied-for gTLD

gTLDFull Legal NameE-mail suffixDetail
.書籍Amazon EU S.à r.l.valideus.comView
Amazon EU S.à r.l., with support of its ultimate parent company, Amazon.com, Inc. (collectively referred to in this response throughout as “Amazon”), is committed to managing the .書籍 registry in full compliance with all applicable laws, consensus policies, ICANN guidelines, RFCs and the Specifications of the Registry Agreement. In the management of domain names in the .書籍 registry, based on GAC advice and Specification 5, Amazon intends to block from initial registration those country and territory names contained in the following lists:
1. The short form (in English) of all country and territory names contained on the ISO 3166- 1 list, as updated from time to time, including the European Union; and
2. The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names, Technical Reference Manual for the Standardization of Geographical Names, Part III Names of Countries of the World; and
3. The list of United Nations member states in 6 official United Nations languages prepared by the Working Group on Country Names of the United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names.
The process for reserving these names, and hence blocking them from registration, will be agreed to with our technical service provider Neustar.
Because the .書籍 registry will be a single entity registry and for purposes which serve Amazon’s strategic business aims, the reserved names cannot be offered to Governments or other official bodies for their own use as this would conflict with the mission and purpose of the gTLD. However, for the same reason, they will not be offered to third parties.
The .書籍 registry only provides for the registration of names at the second level. No third level domains will be delegated at the registry level. It is consistent with GAC advice that Amazon may choose to create sub domains using country names or abbreviations at the third level. For example, Amazon may register information.書籍 and its internal users may create sub domains such as jp.information.書籍.
Amazon may also use a folder structure to represent country names in its URLs, while the block exists at the second level. For example, information.書籍⁄Japan.
We imagine that over time, there will be demand from brand gTLDs leading to the development of a standardized process for requesting GAC review and ICANN approval for the release of country and territory names for registration by the Registry Operator when the registry is a single entity registry. When such a process is in place, Amazon expects to apply for the release of country and territory names within .書籍.
gTLDFull Legal NameE-mail suffixDetail
.tjmaxxThe TJX Companies, Inc.tjx.comView
Response to Q22

Reference is made to all other responses to questions within this application, including but not limited to the response to Question 18, Question 26 (which describes how Applicant will promote WHOIS accuracy) and Question 29 (which addresses how the Applicant will prevent abusive registrations). To the extent that such other responses have defined terms contained therein, this response may use such terms.

Applicant is committed to running the registry in full compliance with all applicable laws, consensus policies, best practice guidelines, binding RFCs and the Specifications of the Registry Agreement. Applicant therefore commits that it will follow GAC advice and Specification 5 and block from initial registration those country and territory names contained in the following lists:

1. The short form (in English) of all country and territory names contained on the ISO 3166- 1 list, as updated from time to time, including the European Union; and
2. The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names, Technical Reference Manual for the Standardization of Geographical Names, Part III Names of Countries of the World; and
3. The list of United Nations member states in 6 official United Nations languages prepared by the Working Group on Country Names of the United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names.

The process for reserving these names, and hence blocking them from registration, will be agreed with our technical service provider Neustar.

Because all second level domain names under this registry will be registered for purposes which serve Applicant’s strategic business aims, and are limited to the applicant or parties operating under a trademark license from the applicant specifically allowing second level registrations, the reserved names cannot be offered to Governments or other official bodies for their own use as this would conflict with the mission and Purpose of the TLD. However, for the same reason, they will not be offered to third parties.

The registry only provides for the registration of names at the second level. No third level domains will be delegated at the registry level. It is therefore consistent with GAC advice that Applicant may choose to create subdomains using country names or abbreviations at the third level. Applicant may also use a folder structure to represent country names in its URLs, while the block exists at the second level.

We envisage that over time, there will be demand from brand TLDs leading to the development of a standardized process for requesting GAC review and ICANN approval for the release of country and territory names for registration by the Registry Operator when the registry is a closed registry. Applicant expects to apply for the release of country and territory names within this registry.