Free pre-registration of sg-domains at Second Level

Cologne,13 August 2004. ICANN accredited registrar Secura
announces today, that the company is accepting free
pre-registration of sg-domains at second level.
(https://www.domainregistry.de/sg-domain.html)

Singapure is the financial centre of the Far East. The registry
has decided to introduce sg-domains at second level since 15
September 2004.

Part of the rule that gives priority to register 2nd level names
of “.sg” is the ownership of an existing 3rd level name (.com.sg
/ net.sg / org.sg / edu.sg / per.sg). The cut off date for 3rd
level name to be entitled to the priority to register 2nd level
names is 6 September 2004 before 5 pm. Therefore all 3rd level
name had to be registered before this period to enjoy the
priority in this category.You can influence the chance to get a
second level sg-domain by registering now a third level domain.
(Please note that there are other priority before this category
which will be explained in details under item 3.3)

3. SUNRISE PERIOD

3.1 During the Sunrise Period all individuals and entities are
eligible to apply for any second-level domain name. Applicants
will be required to submit a declaration form (form to be
published soon) together with supporting documents, if any,
indicating their status (i.e. trademark holders, Unregistered
well-known trademark Holder, government bodies, existing
registrants or new applicants). This form has to be submitted to
+49 221 2571213 via fax.

The sunrise period is 1 months for the application of
second-level domain names under the top level domain of .sg.
Applications for second-level domain names during the Sunrise
Period will not be processed on a first-come-firstserved basis
but will be processed subject to the requirements and procedures
set out in the following guidelines. 3.2 Where there are two or
more applicants for the same second-level domain name the
priority for allocation will be determined at the end of the
Sunrise Period in the following order:

(a) Holders of registered trademarks.Holders of word marks which
are registered with the Intellectual Property Office of
Singapore (IPOS).

(b)Unregistered Trademarks, which belong to Holders of well
known trademark holders

(c) Government Organisations that have a current Registrant
Agreement with SGNIC in relation to a current third level domain
name registered under the ‘gov.sg’ category and is identical to
the second level domain name that they want to register. For
example, in the case of holder of ABC.gov.sg, the second level
domain name it wants to register would be ABC.sg.

(d) Applicants that have a current Registrant Agreement with
SGNIC in relation to a current third level domain name
registered under the ‘com/org/net/edu/per.sg’ categories and is
identical to the second-level domain name that is under
application (i.e. existing 3rd level registrants). For example,
in the case of holder of XYZ.com.sg, the second-level domain
name it wants to register would be XYZ.sg. The third-level ‘.sg’
domain name with SGNIC must be registered before 5:00pm on 6
Sept 2004. The name applied under the 2nd level must be exactly
the same as the one under the 3rd level and the organization
name and/or first name, last name (for the case of .per.sg) must
be an exact match of the one provided by the 3rd level domain
name. In addition, the domain must be in “Active” status.
Submission for domains in “Expired” or “Deleted” status will not
be considered for application.

3.3 Where there are two or more applicants for the same
second-level domain name within each of the Group, a bidding
will be conducted to allocate these second-level domain names.

3.4 All individuals and entities are eligible to apply for
second level ‘.sg’ domain name. Foreign-based registrants have
to appoint a local administrative contact or register through
their local office.Secura is providing automatically the local
administrative contact.

4.1 The restrictions on the types of domain names to be
registered are the same as the 3rd level domain names
specifically: (a) Names, which contain certain words such as
“Temasek”, “Singapore”, “Singapura” and its variation,
“Singapore Government” or “President” or any other words that
can mislead people to think there is link to the Government;
Names, which contains “SGNIC”, “NIC” and its variations; Names,
which are obscene, scandalous, indecent or contrary to law, or
morality (e.g. “sex” or any connotations with sex or any
sex-related activities); (b) Names, which are geographical names
or names of countries (e.g. Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, etc.);
(c) Abbreviated names (either on their own or in combination
with other characters) of existing generic top-level domain name
(gTLDs) (i.e. .com, .org, .net, edu, .gov, .per, .aero, .coop,
.biz, .info, .museum, .name and .pro) and any other gTLDs
created or to be created by ICANN in the future; Names, such as
“www”, “http”, “https” or “http-www”; Names, which are similar
or identical to domain names registered under other domain name
space and which SGNIC deems undesirable; and Names, which
consist of all numerals.

5.1 ALLOCATION RESULTS SGNIC does not guarantee that all
applicants will get a second-level domain name based on their
current corresponding identical third level domain name
registered with SGNIC even if the applicants apply correctly and
on time. This is either because another applicant with a higher
priority may have also applied for the same secondlevel domain
name or the second-level domain name applied for has been
reserved by SGNIC not to be available to the general public.

6. OBJECTION PERIOD 6.1 An objection period of [14 calendar
days] is provided for the public to raise objections 6.2 A
person raising an objection to an allocation result shall
provide evidence that the second-level domain name allocated by
SGNIC during the Sunrise Period did not comply with the
Guidelines.

6.3 All disputes in relation to second-level domain names
(except disputes arising from the allocation results announced
during the Sunrise Period) will be dealt with in accordance with
the Singapore Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy, Rules and
Supplemental Rules (”Dispute Resolution Policy”) referred to in
the Registrant Agreement regardless of when the second-level
domain name was registered. All applicants shall not commence
any court proceedings or administrative proceedings under the
Dispute Resolution Policy during the objection period or if the
person had filed an objection with SGNIC.

7. GENERAL LAUNCH Applications from public on
first-come-first-served basis will commenced on 3 Jan 2005. The
pre-registation at https://www.domainregistry.de/sg-domain.html
starts on 14 August 2004.

Hans-Peter Oswald https://www.domainregistry.de/sg-domain.html