Policy regulations

FOR SUB-DOMAIN ASSIGNMENT UNDER TOP LEVEL DOMAIN OF YUGOSLAVIA (YU)

(Last revised: 10-APR-2000)

1. INTRODUCTORY NOTES

This document defines the rules and regulations for Internet domain assignment the ISO 3166 country code top level domain (ccTLD) of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (YU).

2. REGULATIONS FOR DOMAIN ASSIGNMENT

Domain assignment and domain registration in the YU TLD table are FREE OF CHARGE AT ALL CONDITIONS, with the following restrictions:

• Only companies and organizations located in Yugoslavia are eligible to apply for a domain name.
• Individuals are not eligible to obtain a domain name.
• Only ONE domain per one registrant is allowed.
• Domain name is a public resource, registered to a company or an organization (registrant) stated in the part 2 of the domain application form. Once registered, a domain name can't be taken over by another party. The domain name can't be sold or leased to a third party.

Domain name registration for foreign companies and organisations are allowed if and only if they have official representatives located in Yugoslavia. In such cases, please provide the address of the representative office instead of real company address in the registration form. Foreign companies and organisations without local representative offices are NOT ELIGIBLE to apply.

Domain name registrant must meet the following technical requirements before submitting a domain name request:

• At least 2 (two) fully operational domain name servers (DNS), configured for the requested domain name.
• SThe domain name servers may be located anywhere on the Internet, but they must be connected permanently (7x24).
• SThe domain name servers must be configured properly.

Should the registrant fail to meet the mentioned technical requirements, the request will be refused. In such a case the registrant will be advised on further steps.

3. DOMAIN NAMING CONVENTIONS

According to the recent recommendations, the YU ccTLD is divided into the following second-level domains: AC.YU, CO.YU, ORG.YU and EDU.YU.

• If the registrant is an academic organization (e.g. university, institute), registered at the Ministry of Science and Technology of Serbia, Montenegro or the Federal Ministry of Science and Environment, it will be registered in the "academical" domain (AC.YU).
• If the registrant is an educational organization (primary school, high school, special status school, registered with the Ministry of Education of Serbia or Montenegro) or a company, whose primary orientation is education and training, it may apply for the "education" domain (EDU.YU).
• If the registrant is a corporation (private, mixed, public, social), registered according to the national Corporate Law, it will be registered in the "corporative" domain (CO.YU).
• If the registrant is an independent organization (professional, political, non-political, independent etc.), registered according to the appropriate national laws (i.e. it has the legal right to act on the area of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia) it will be registered in the domain reserved for "organizations" (ORG.YU). This domain can be also suitable for cultural organizations, like museums, theaters etc.
• Governmental institutions of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia as well as appropriate institutions of its Republics (Serbia and Montenegro) will be registered under separate subdomains of YU ccTLD.
• National institutions and agencies with special status, directly controlled by the Federal government (so-called: "Savezni zavodi") may also apply for the registration directly under the TLD of Yugoslavia (YU).

Domain names can be arbitary character strings, with minimum length 1 and maximum length 30 characters. Domain names use Latin-1 (USA) character set and may contain letters (A-Z), digits (0-9) and dashes (-). The domain name must not begin nor end with a dash. Domain names are case insensitive.

--- IMPORTANT LEGAL NOTICE - PLEASE READ ---

REGISTERING A DOMAIN NAME DOES NOT CONFER ANY LEGAL RIGHTS TO THAT NAME AND ANY DISPUTES BETWEEN PARTIES OVER THE RIGHTS TO USE A PARTICULAR NAME ARE TO BE SETTLED BETWEEN THE CONTENDING PARTIES USING NORMAL LEGAL METHODS. PLEASE REFER TO THE DOCUMENT RFC 1591 FOR MORE INFORMATION.

4. APPLICATION FOR DOMAIN NAME ASSIGNMENT

For all requests (registrering new domain, modifying or removing a domain name) please use the same form (http://www.nic.yu/domreg-e.html). The request must be sent to the following email address: hostmaster@nic.yu.

The subject field of the message ("Subject:") MUST conform to the following syntax:

• Registration of new domains - use -> Subject: NEW DOMAIN: domain-name
• Modification of domain data - use -> Subject: MODIFY DOMAIN: domain-name
• Removal of domain name - use ------> Subject: DELETE DOMAIN: domain-name

IMPORTANT - Persons submitting the application are fully responsible for the completeness and correctnes of the data filled in the form. Hostmasters of the YU TLD will check each application and, if there occurs any irregularity, the request for domain name will be rejected!

Hostmasters of the YU TLD have the right to perform continuous auditing of information, supplied in the domain application form. If auditing show that information, supplied in the form was incorrect or inconsistent, or if the registrant breaks any clause of this policy statement - the domain name delegation may unilaterally be revoked by the hostmasters.

If the domain name application form for domain name is filled-in correctly, hostmasters are obliged to register the required domain name in no more than 30 days upon the request is received.

5. DOMAIN CONTACTS

There must be one or two contact persons designated for each domain:

DOMAIN ADMINISTRATIVE CONTACT: the administrative contact is the person which should be able to answer questions about administrative issues of a domain, i.e. addresses of other persons in the domain, domain name, location, financial information, etc. NOTE - Administrative contact MUST be a person, employeed with the organization/company applying for the domain name, authorized by the same organization/company to deal with domain name issues.

DOMAIN TECHNICAL CONTACT: the domain technical contact is the person responsible for the technical aspects of maintaining the domains name server and resolver software and database files. This person keeps the name server running and interacts with technical people in other domains to solve problems affecting his domain.

All requests concerning registering a domain name, modifying domain data or removing domain data from the DNS tables will be considered legal if and only if such request comes from either one of:

• Domain administrative contact
• Domain technical contact
• Organization manager (enterprise manager, school dean etc.)
• Internet service provider supporting the customer

6. HOSTMASTERI - KOORDINATORI YU DOMENA