.NA Domain Requirements & Criteria Namibia FAQ - What are some rules and requirements I must abide by when I register my domain name as well as maintain my .NA domain?
- (a) Communication, publication or distribution of material (including through links or framing)
that infringes upon the intellectual and/or industrial property rights of another person.
Intellectual and/or industrial property rights include, but are not limited to:
i. copyrights (including future copyright),
ii. design rights,
iii. patents,
iv. patent applications,
v. trade marks,
vi. rights of personality, and
vii. trade secret information.
(b) Use of a .NA Domain Name in circumstances in which:
i. The .NA Domain Name is identical or confusingly similar to a personal name, company,
business or other legal or trading name as registered with the relevant Namibia
agency, or a trade or service mark in which a third party complainant has uncontested
rights, including without limitation in circumstances in which:
A. The use deceives or confuses others in relation to goods or services for which a
trade mark is registered in Namibia, or in respect of similar goods or closely related
services, against the wishes of the registered proprietor of the trade mark; or
B. The use deceives or confuses others in relation to goods or services in respect
of which an unregistered trade mark or service mark has become distinctive of
the goods or services of a third party complainant, and in which the third party
complainant has established a sufficient reputation in Namibia, against the wishes
of the third party complainant; or
C. The use trades on or passes-off a .NA Domain Name or a website or other content
or services accessed through resolution of a .NA Domain as being the same as or
endorsed, authorised, associated or affiliated with the established business, name
or reputation of another; or
D. The use constitutes intentionally misleading or deceptive conduct in breach of
CoCCA recommendations, or the laws of Namibia; or
ii. The .NA Domain Name has been used in bad faith, including without limitation the
following:
A. The User has used the .NA Domain Name primarily for the purpose of unlawfully
disrupting the business or activities of another person; or
B. By using the .NA Domain Name, the User has intentionally created a likelihood
of confusion with respect to the third party complainants intellectual or industrial
property rights and the source, sponsorship, affiliation, or endorsement of
website(s), email, or other online locations or services or of a product or service
available on or through resolution of a .NA Domain Name;
C. For the purpose of unlawfully selling, renting or otherwise transferring the Domain
Name to an entity or to a commercial competitor of an entity, for valuable consideration
in excess of a Users documented out-of-pocket costs directly associated
with acquiring the Domain Name;
D. As a blocking registration against a name or mark in which a third party has
superior intellectual or industrial property rights.
E. A .NA Domain Name registration which is part of a pattern of registrations where
the User has registered Domain Names which correspond to well known names or
trade marks in which the User has no apparent rights, and the .NA Domain Name
is part of that pattern;
iii. The .NA Domain Name was registered arising out of a relationship between two parties,
and it was mutually agreed, as evidenced by a writing, that the Registrant would be
an entity other than that currently in the register.
(c) Unlawful communication, publication or distribution of registered and unregistered knowhow,
confidential information and trade secrets.
(d) Communication, publication or distribution, either directly or by way of embedded links,
of images or materials (including, but not limited to pornographic material and images or
materials that a reasonable person as a member of the community of Namibia would consider
to be obscene or indecent) where such communication, publication or distribution is
prohibited by or constitutes an offence under the laws of Namibia or within the meaning
of the CoCCA recommended policies, whether incorporated directly into or linked from a
web site, email, posting to a news group, internet forum, instant messaging notice which
makes use of Domain Name resolution services in the .NA ccTLD.
(e) Material that a reasonable member of the community of Namibia would consider pornographic,
indecent, and/or obscene or which is otherwise prohibited includes, by way of
example and without limitation, real or manipulated images depicting child pornography,
bestiality, excessively violent or sexually violent material, sexual activity, and material
containing detailed instructions regarding how to commit a crime, an act of violence, or
how to prepare and/or use illegal drugs.
(f) Communication, publication or distribution of defamatory material or material that constitutes
racial vilification.
(g) Communication, publication or distribution of material that constitutes an illegal threat
or encourages conduct that may constitute a criminal offence.
(h) Communication, publication or distribution of material that is in contempt of the orders
of a court or another authoritative government actor within Namibia.
(i) Use, communication, publication or distribution of software, technical information or
other data that violates export control laws or CoCCA recommendations.
(j) Use, communication, publication or distribution of confidential or personal information
or data which violates any right of privacy including confidential or personal information
about persons that is collected without their knowledge or consent.
- Must I have a dedicated server set up when I register for a .NA domain?
- Yes. At least two functioning domain names servers (DNS) should be presented for the registered name at request time. Non-accordance to this requirement can result in the failure of the completion of the registration.
- What are Primary Name Servers and Secondary Name Servers?
- A Primary name server is for a domain reads the data for the domain from a file on its host. A Secondary name server is gets data for a domain from another name server that is authoritative for the domain. A secondary name server might refer directly to the primary name server or it might refer to another secondary name server. Primary name server is also known as master name server and secondary name server is also know as slave name server.
- What kind of contacts will I need to have to register a .MR domain name?
- You will need three contacts: an Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, and Billing Contact.
Source: www.na-nic.com.na
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