.comsec Pre-Register Domain - .comsec Domain Information

2 BENEFITS TO REGISTRANTS, INTERNET USERS, AND OTHERS
The .comsec gTLD will provide domain name registrants and Internet users with an exciting new gTLD that is supported by Verisign's world-renowned registry infrastructure, which has a proven track record of stability and security.

2.1 Business Goals
Verisign will work to build .comsec as a global gTLD brand that provides registrants with a robust range of value-added services.

2.2. Competition, Differentiation, and Innovation Goals
Verisign is developing .comsec with a focus on providing registrants a suite of value-added services intended to enhance and strengthen the online properties of .comsec registrants.

2.3 User Experience Goals
Verisign strives to maintain an exemplary level of stability, security and availability across all domains for which it provides stewardship. Verisign's commitment to .comsec registrants is that the infrastructure operating their domain will provide a robust level of operational stability.

2.4 Measures to Protect Privacy and Confidentiality
Verisign limits information collection from registrants to ICANN mandated data points that are required in the registration of a domain name and used solely for the purpose of publishing to the publicly available Whois service. Whois Terms of Use are available on our website at:
http://www.verisigninc.com/en_US/products-and-services/domain-name-services/whois/terms-of-use/index.xhtml

2.5 Outreach and Communications
Verisign will engage in an international marketing and public relations campaign to educate users about the unique value and benefits of the .comsec gTLD. The campaign will feature standalone marketing and public relations efforts, as well as channel/registrar promotional efforts. The outreach campaign focuses on three areas:
• Registrars: Verisign will work extensively with its registrar channel to promote the benefits and value of .comsec domain names, and will help registrars identify the types of prospective registrants that may benefit from the value-added services .comsec offers.
• Registrants: Verisign will target marketing efforts at registrants that are likely to find specific value in .comsec's value-added services.
• Users: Focusing on public relations and media outreach, Verisign will educate users about what it means when an Internet address is registered in .comsec

3 OPERATING RULES TO MINIMIZE SOCIAL COSTS
Verisign is committed to adhering fully to all of the standards and procedures in the Applicant Guidebook to ensure the stable, secure, and lawful launch and operation of .comsec.

3.1 Sunrise Period with Dispute Resolution Process

3.1.1 Resolution of Multiple Applications
Domain name registrations are processed on a first-come, first-served basis. We do not batch registration requests, so once we receive an initial domain name registration request, we do not process any other registration requests for that domain name. This policy is in effect for the Sunrise and Trademark Claims periods as well as for general availability post launch.

3.1.2 General Launch and Trademark Claims Service Period
Verisign also implements a Trademark Claims Service for 60 days after the launch of the general registration of domain names in the .comsec gTLD. The .comsec Trademark Claims Service complies with the requirements outlined in the current Applicant Guidebook as well as any final guidance to be issued pertaining to the operation of the Trademark Clearinghouse.

3.2 Cost Benefits for Registrants
Verisign does not intend to offer discount programs for .comsec at launch, but may do so at some future date.

3.3 Contractual Commitments Regarding Price Escalation
Verisign commits to notifying all .comsec registrars at least 6 months in advance of any pricing increase.


4 OTHER STEPS TO MINIMIZE NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCES/COSTS IMPOSED UPON CONSUMERS
Verisign has implemented extensive abuse prevention and rights protection measures, which are outlined in the response to Question 28, Abuse Prevention and Mitigation, and the response to Question 29, Rights Protection Mechanisms.

The Verisign registry solution provides a mechanism for reserving second-level domain
names that prevents them from being registered. This functionality includes a list of
strings that the system will not allow to be registered. Strings can be added and
removed from this list as needed.

For the protection of geographic names for the .comsec gTLD, the country and

territory names contained in the following internationally recognized lists shall be
blocked initially:

* The short form (in English) of all country and territory names, including the
European Union, contained on the International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
3166-1 list:

http://www.iso.org/iso/support/country_codes/iso_3166_code_lists/iso-3166-
1_decoding_table.htm#EU

* The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names (UNGEGN),
Technical Reference Manual for the Standardization of Geographical Names, Part III
Names of Countries of the World:

http://unstats.un.org/unsd/geoinfo/UNGEGN/publications.html

* The list of United Nations member states, in six official United Nations
languages, prepared by the Working Group on Country Names of the United Nations
Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names. The most recent list of
country names approved by the Working Group was submitted on behalf of UNGEGN
for the Ninth UN Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names in August
2007: E/CONF.98/89 Add.1 (http://unstats.un.org/unsd/geoinfo/ungegn/docs/9th-
uncsgn-docs/econf/9th_UNCSGN_e-conf-98-89-add1.pdf)


As new versions of these three internationally recognized lists are published, Verisign
will update the list of names reserved by the Verisign registry system to reflect any
changes.


In addition to providing protection for geographic names, this reserved name
functionality will be used to reserve other names specifically ineligible for delegation.
For example, Section 2.2.1.2.3 of the Applicant Guidebook lists strings associated with
the International Olympic Committee and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent
organizations to be prohibited from delegation per the Government Advisory Committee
(GAC) request.

All the strings on these lists as well as any others put forth by the GAC and approved by
ICANN will be included in the list of reserved names.

There are no plans at this time to release any of the reserved names. If, however,
Verisign intends to release any of the names at a future date, we will follow the
appropriate procedures, outlined in Section 5 of Specification 5, on the release of
reserved names.