Common use of Additional Second-Level Reservations Clause in Contracts

Additional Second-Level Reservations. 2.1. All two-character ASCII labels shall be withheld from registration or allocated to Registry Operator at the second level within the TLD. Such labels may not be activated in the DNS, and may not be released for registration to any person or entity other than Registry Operator, provided that such two- character label strings may be released to the extent that Registry Operator reaches agreement with the related government and country-code manager of the string as specified in the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 standard. The Registry Operator may also propose the release of these reservations based on its implementation of measures to avoid confusion with the corresponding country codes, subject to approval by ICANN. Upon conclusion of Registry Operator’s designation as operator of the registry for the TLD, all such labels that remain withheld from registration or allocated to Registry Operator shall be transferred as specified by ICANN. Registry Operator may self-allocate and renew such names without use of an ICANN accredited registrar, which will not be considered Transactions for purposes of Section 7.2(c) of the Agreement. 2.2. All single character labels shall be reserved at the second level within the TLD. Registry Operator may allocate single-character second-level labels (such as x.xxxx, 0.xxxx) through ICANN-accredited registrars, based upon its implementation of a process using evaluation criteria.

Additional Second-Level Reservations. 2.1. All two-character ASCII labels shall be withheld from registration or allocated to Registry Operator at the second level within the TLD. Such labels may not be activated in the DNS, and may not be released for registration to any person or entity other than Registry Operator, provided that such two- two-character label strings may be released to the extent that Registry Operator reaches agreement with the related government and country-code manager of the string as specified in the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 standard. The Registry Operator may also propose the release of these reservations based on its implementation of measures to avoid confusion with the corresponding country codes, subject to approval by ICANN. Upon conclusion of Registry Operator’s designation as operator of the registry for the TLD, all such labels that remain withheld from registration or allocated to Registry Operator shall be transferred as specified by ICANN. Registry Operator may self-allocate and renew such names without use of an ICANN accredited registrar, which will not be considered Transactions for purposes of Section 7.2(c) of the Agreement. 2.2. All single character labels shall be reserved at the second level within the TLD. Registry Operator may allocate single-character second-level labels (such as x.xxxxx.xxxxxx, 0.xxxx0.xxxxxx) through ICANN-accredited registrars, based upon its implementation of a process using evaluation criteria.