Principles Governing Second Level Domains Within .nz
These principles were originally contained in Future Development of the .NZ Domain Name Space accepted by Council on 21 May 1997.
These principles represent a set of attributes that we would expect of any second level domain name. These attributes can be used to measure the quality of an argument supporting the creation of a new second level domain and proposals for new second level domains will be expected to justify the new domain with respect to these principles.
- Associated with each second level domain should be a clear statement of a common interest shared by entities that are expected to request names within the domain, e.g. tertiary educational institutions.
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Proposals for new second level domains should provide a proposed statement describing the community of interest for the domain and an argument indicating why this community requires a new second level domain.
- The abbreviation used to represent the domain should be an obvious derivative of a word that properly describing the domain, e.g. .ac for academic.
- Minimum ambiguity should exist between different second level domain names, i.e. ideally their communities of interest should not overlap.
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Last updated 4 December 2000