.GU Domain Requirements & Criteria Guam FAQ - Do you conduct any trademark search before registering a domain name?
- 101Domain checks trademarks with a publication printed by the Guam Dept of Commerce. We have no affiliation with the Department of Commerce where trademarks are issued. We do however, comply with court mandates if trademark-domain ownerships are in dispute. We have received requests from companies worldwide who apply to protect their trademarks and not necessarily because they desire a domain name. We humbly solicit your understanding by saying that this is not the correct venue to protect your tradename and service marks. Please register your trademarks with the Guam Dept of Commerce. We also honor holders of Guam Trademark certificates. Contentions for tradename disputes should be resolved before an application is submitted. If trademarks are being claimed by corporations,it follows that securing a Tradename Certificate from the Dept of Commerce will be a decisive factor in settling name disputes.
- Is it sufficient to register the domain in domain .gu format (for example, coke.gu) or there is a requirement to register a name with the second level qualifer (for example, coke.com.gu or coke.net.gu)?
- The latter is true. A second level qualifer will be needed.
- If there is a requirement to have second level qualifier, what qualifiers are available?
- Normally, applicants register under the second level qualifers: .com.gu =commercial. .edu.gu = education. .net.gu = Major network support centers. .gov.gu = Government. .org.gu = Nonprofit organizations (you know if you are an org if your hold a letter from Internal Revenue Service granting tax exemption under Section 501(c),(d) or (e) of the Internal Revenue Code. Or have certification from the Dept of Revenue and Taxation that you are a nonprofit organization under the laws of Guam). Thus far, these are the only domain suffixes which we support.
- Do you have any qualification policies (one has be resident or company registered in your country, one has to have trade mark registered to get it registered as a domain name, etc.)?
- One must be a resident before the free domain name is issued. Your company must have a company representative on Guam and registered with the Guam Revenue and Taxation Dept. When you register your trademark with the Guam Dept of Commerce, no entity can claim your tradename as a domain. We genuinely desire to assist the applicant in activating their domain. We require that the applicant possesses two DNS servers anywhere in the world which will advertise their domain name. We perform "nslookup" on the servers listed on their application to ascertain that their tables are operational and correct. Although 6000 miles from the continental U.S., Guam is still part of the United States. Consequently, we do not desire to compete for or take users away from other U.S. domain services. We were delegated the .gu domain to specialize within this pacific region and to quickly address local legal/cultural sensitivities and domain inquiries which would otherwise contribute in congesting traffic at INTERNIC {which we have utmost respect for}. Issuing domain names entails responsibility of assuring that the applicant has protected himself/herself from having a third party challenge their ownership of that domain. We defer to the courts to arbitrate such disputes. It is logical that the applicant should own the tradename if the tradename is incorporated into domain name. For every application, we fax, email, write or visit the local Guam representatives of the corporation [who with certainty already applied for trademark/tradename certificates with the Guam Dept of Commerce] for authentication of information. This is our only means to validate the veracity of any application for domain activation. The responsibility for accountability will reside with local representatives of the company. The representatives need not be residents of Guam.
- How long is a domain name valid? One year, longer?
- Cognizant that domain names exist dynamically, we review them annually. We will attempt to ascertain that the servers for the domains are still up/running and their merits in the service of the people of the territory. We will take all measures to contact the owners of the Domains locally should any questions arise.
- Must a registering org. have an ISP in Guam or a server located in Guam to register a domain?
- The location of the ISP is not relevant.
a.) If your node is physically in Guam we will assist in processing your request. Entities who apply normally own their communication lines on Guam. If your tcpip subnet is registered to you by internic, apnic, ripe or the network information center of your nation, then all is well. If your tcpip address or tcpip subnet is owned by or is part of the CIDR block of addresses owned by your Internet Service Provider, please supply us with your provider's email address. We desire to courteously apprise the provider and ascertain if we are working within the parameters of the provider's policies. We also expect providers or the owners of your ip address to have firewalls on their net. In the course of verifying the functionality of your DNS, we do not want to set off alarms on your provider's net and be misidentified as intruders. Some ISP also view their role as applying for domains on behalf of their customers. If your user node is on Guam, it is permissible that your ISP and DNS server be in another country. You may be physically on Guam, but your DNS server may be at CONUS {continental U.S.} or another country for example.
b.) If you are not physically present in Guam and have affiliation with an agency in the Government of Guam or schools or nonprofit .orgs on Guam, we will assist in processing your registration. Just provide the Guam local address and Guam contact person on your application.
- Is there any limit to the number of domain names one organization may register (for example, one org has several products, tradenames)?
- The number of potential tradenames may be unwieldy that it may not be realistic to create domains for all of them. The question of utility of the domain names will be raised if the names are being used for tradename protection rather than for corporate communication or presence. This has to be taken on a case by case basis. To protect your tradename on Guam, it is best to seek a Guam Certificate of Registration with the the Dept. of Commerce [in addition to registering your tradename with the U.S. Dept. of Commerce]. Please ask your representative in Guam to perform this for you. We are fully aware of your concerns and we also honor tradenames.
- How does one register a tradename or trademark on Guam?
- The Guam Network Information Center has no association with the Dept of Commerce nor with the issuance of trademark registration certificates. Please be advised that the registration of Trademarks, Patents and Copyrights in Guam is the responsibility of the Department of Commerce.
Source: http://gadao.gov.gu
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