.security Pre-Register Domain - .security Domain Information

The .SECURITY TLD is being established to accomplish the following mission and purpose:
To establish an online extension that is immediately identifiable, secure, and exclusive for entities and individuals showcasing their online identity under a TLD that directly communicates secure and security-related content; and managing the domain name in a manner fitting the high integrity and security policy requirements in .SECURITY.
Under this mission .SECURITY will be operated as a critical public resource in an open, responsible, stable and secure manner with the highest level of technical security resources and mechanisms that are aligned with technical advancement and innovation.
Defender Security will engage in activities, other than registry services as described in response to question #23, that will benefit the online security-related industries, such as launching a dedicated Premium Channel under .SECURITY that includes:
- A list of premium names corresponding to generic terms that will be reserved for the registry to use for promoting the TLD using Defender Security's existing diverse and innovative business activities.
- A list of regional or locally focused premium names that will be reserved for the registry to focus on local marketing efforts and to develop destinations dedicated to the security community and clients searching for security-related information and businesses. These sites will be developed in partnership or agreement with local entities that are responsible for security activities. All participants must adhere to an open policy that allows inclusion of all security-related businesses and entities that fulfill the .SECURITY Policy.
- A list of premium names corresponding to security-industry names will be reserved and developed internally to bring innovation to Defender Security's existing activities or in strategic partnership with leading security-related entities. Partner selection criteria for some of the premium keywords can include RFP or an auction mechanism with the pre-requisite of fulfilling the criteria set forth in the .SECURITY Policy.

Defender Security is currently involved in, and reserves parts of its profit to numerous social benefit programs such as:
• The Service Project Challenge that engages Defender employees in their communities in ways aligning with the Defender culture. Employees form teams of 5-10 people and select a non-profit organization to serve and win Defender donated prize money for their charities.
• Defender continued support of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Indiana, where Defender Security has challenged itself to have more than 100 additional employees volunteer to become big brothers and big sisters in 2012.
• Increased participation in Habitat for Humanity program targeting a build of 100 homes across America in 2012. This program follows the successful YWAM (Youth With a Mission) program that Defender employees regularly participate in, which allows employees to volunteer, largely at the company expense, to build homes in Latin America and the Dominican Republic.
• Defender is a proud sponsor of Junior Achievement, Make-a-Wish Foundation and many other charitable organizations and giving platforms.
One of the core passions driving Defender's charitable efforts across the country is Defender's credo of "ever expanding influence" and the belief that meaningful change starts on the inside of a person or organization and works its way out. When we work on improving ourselves, creating great systems and developing our leadership skills, our ability to influence others increases and continues to build upon itself. This increased influence improves our ability to achieve meaningful and lasting results. Defender will continue these core principles, and through extension to its Advisory Committee, find beneficial ways of including .SECURITY in such activities and/or including security focused activities in its current programs.
Defender Security will operate .SECURITY in a consistent manner with the following principles: stewardship, integrity, social responsibility, community involvement, transparency, standards compliance and development, entrepreneurship and innovation.
The mission/purpose is consistent with ICANN's Affirmation of Commitments (AoC) including:
- "ensuring accountability, transparency and the interests of global Internet users" in regards to security, "enhancing the operational stability, reliability, resiliency, security, and global interoperability of the DNS" and "promoting competition, consumer trust, and consumer choice" while "adequately addressing consumer protection, malicious abuse, and rights protection issues" (http://www.icann.org/en/about/agreements/aoc/affirmation-of-commitments-30sep09-en.htm).
.SECURITY mission/purpose guiding principles:
STANDARDS OF COMPLIANCE, SECURITY, RESILIENCY, AND STABILITY
Afilias is the DNS Registry provider for .SECURITY. Details of technical and operational capabilities matching the .SECURITY mission are provided in responses to questions #24-44.
COMPETITION, INNOVATION, FAIRNESS, AND CONSUMER CHOICE
The entire security-related industry can register .SECURITY domains if they agree to the TLD's terms of use aligned with .SECURITY's mission. This open registration process provides fairness in .SECURITY domain availability, gives security-related entities an advantaged branding position, and avoids anti-competitive or anti-trust concerns.
As described earlier, the Premium Channels will invigorate the competitive landscape and nurture innovation in both the security and domain space.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY PROTECTION AND TRUST
Defender Security has developed policies to protect intellectual property, fight malicious conduct and ensure .SECURITY domains are allocated in fair methods so that security-related entities and Internet users are assured the highest level of trust and authenticity when they visit a .SECURITY domain.
Phased launches provide rights holders a first-come in the .SECURITY Sunrise, auction of multiple initial Landrush domain inquiries, and eventually allows all stakeholders of the security-related industries to register. All registrants must adhere to restricted Use, Name and Anti-Abuse policies that will be monitored to prevent bad practices existing in the Security Community.
Dispute mechanisms, compliance efforts, and data validation processes will provide an added level of trust.
Defender Security will conduct reviews of the security level, data validity, applicability, usability, and overall security industry satisfaction with the TLD. Results will be published publicly for feedback and we look forward to providing review results and expertise in the ICANN Post-Launch New gTLD Review.

The .SECURITY TLD will benefit the registrants and internet users by providing an immediately identifiable, secure, and exclusive domain for security-related entities and individuals, especially if their preferred domain name selection is not currently available under .COM or another TLD of their choice. These benefits are detailed in the below.
18b (i) Defender Security's expertise in the security-related business is well known. Since its inception in 1998, Defender Security has emerged as a leading dealer for a prestigious portfolio of home security and digital communications brands. The company recently broadened its portfolio of residential service offerings with the addition of an Outsourced Sales Center Division and continues to use its sales force expertise to improve lead acquisition for outside clients in other industries. Defender Security employs more than 2,100 individuals in 50 states with over 120 branch offices nationwide.
Defender's stellar growth has been fueled by an aggressive direct-marketing focus and national expansion. The company mission is, "businesses don't grow—people do." This mission which fostered continuous employee development has permitted the company to grow faster than many of its peers because defender employees have grown as individuals. Defender sales have doubled because the capacity and talents of its leaders have doubled. A few years ago, Defender stopped trying to double its business and realized the way to grow was to double its team members' enthusiasm, optimism, and skills. Defender offers a culture of continuous learning including; seminars, leadership conferences, and self-help programs. The company builds a culture, on purpose, not by accident. This same focus will be directed to grow Defender's .SECURITY business.
The goal of .SECURITY is matching the Defender Security existing business goals by creating world class results in brand awareness and new customer acquisition. Defender will utilize its existing experienced marketing resources to rapidly create a unique persona and marketing strategy for .SECURITY. It will leverage its existing marketing channel relationships in digital, print, direct mail, television and emerging channels to develop and support the .SECURITY initiative. This will be established by providing a secure, differentiated security-branded domain to be registered and used by the global Internet community in an appropriate manner under strict anti-abuse and use-policies. Defender Security and its back-end operator, Afilias, will provide an unmatched secure technical platform which will be facilitated to signify technical security and identification to Internet users.

SECURE OPEN gTLD
The primary goal of .SECURITY is to add value to security-related entities and internet users that exceed current DNS standards through its highly reliable, resilient and stable technical registry system, its protection policies and its associated compliance functions. .SECURITY will generate trust in application developers by establishing a highly secure TLD with appropriate use, anti-abuse policies aligned with the highest available technical operational standards. Trust will be key to the future of the Internet, especially with the anticipated high volume of new gTLDs being introduced. Historically application developers have incorporated protection mechanisms for some TLDs. As described in response to question #16, Defender Security is aware of this risk and will communicate its established policies and operational functionalities to the operators involved in the application-layer of the DNS to ensure usability and acceptance of the TLD across applications to ensure a streamlined user experience. This will for example enable search engines to trust .SECURITY domains more in security-related searches given their higher likelihood of relevance to security pertaining to serving the most optimal and reliable search results.
.SECURITY PREMIUM DOMAIN CHANNEL
Defender Security's objective is to connect trusted, security-related entities to their target consumer base while benefitting law-enforcement agencies mitigate online criminal activities and malicious conduct.
Traditionally premium names under newly-launched TLDs have been auctioned to generate immediate income to the TLD registry operator. Defender Security will use the premium names under .SECURITY to:
- Develop sites to promote the TLD and its mission.
- Engage in partnerships with entities specializing in different security-related industries to develop dedicated destinations to drive Internet users to law-abiding security-related entities.
- Develop local and regional directories specialized for the security-related industries to help connect them with their target audience.
The Premium Names sites will be developed with security entities in mind and to benefit Internet users and other stakeholders, such as law-enforcement and governmental stakeholders.
Premium Channels will be search engine optimized and will also enable direct navigation under the most popular security-related terms. For example, a consumer searching for a home security system can directly visit "home.SECURITY" to find relevant services in the home security business.
Defender Security today has national marketing expertise with over 7 billion of pieces of print marketing collateral distributed throughout the US each year and millions of digital impressions. Defender Security employs 2,100 individuals in 50 states with over 120 branch offices nationwide. Defender has expertise in brand positioning and strategy, marketing communications, target market identification and analysis's and marketing brand development. Defender will augment this existing distribution channel to reach consumers and provide them information to the .SECURITY Premium Names.
18b (ii) The primary differentiation of the .SECURITY TLD that is non-existent in the current TLD space is the meaning of the extension symbolizing security-related activities, and the security-focused strategy adopted by Defender Security. The .SECURITY TLD will provide competition to gTLDs and ccTLDs that Internet users might otherwise choose by providing value-added innovations as described earlier; by differentiating by instilling trust and secure focused values to Internet users as well as fulfilling the high accountability requirements that define the security sector. Secure TLD management is established following the registration policies and compliance measures as described below, and also through responses to questions #23-44 in which every element of registry operations will facilitate the most optimal technical resources, especially in regards to protocol implementations, hardware, security access requirements, and the anti-abuse policy and monitoring.
Furthermore, this is enhanced by the opportunity for registrants to register their domain in their preferred TLD niche that identifies them as a member of the security-related industry.
18b (iii) When visiting .SECURITY sites, Internet users are provided an experience with an immediate identification and a level of confidence and trust that is not available today. The message a .SECURITY domain name sends to its users is that they are engaging with safer entities than they normally would. Defender Security will back this experience by providing optimal secure technical operations, including adopting operational policies that take action against any illegitimate use or abuse in relation to a .SECURITY domain name.
Traditional search engine results pages are agnostic to whether security-related domains within their search pages are legitimate or not. Defender Security will change this experience for the global Internet user by providing a unique symbol of trust and protection to the users in when engaging with .SECURITY domains.
If a domain under .SECURITY is used for any illegitimate uses it will be taken down. As discussed in abuse-prevention section below and also in response to question #28 and #29 repeat offenders will be placed on a special monitoring list by Defender Security and in extreme cases will be denied domain name registrations under .SECURITY.
Defender Security will work directly with law-enforcement agencies. Furthermore the .SECURITY back-end registry provider also indirectly engages in Internet security-focused activities such as with the SSAC and APWG, to ensure that they have the latest technologies and resources available in the operations of .SECURITY.
While .SECURITY domains cannot be validated to belong to security industry members, they are required to follow continuously updated use and anti-abuse policies. And in addition Defender Security will implement a validation of the registrant data ensuring that such data is valid thus ensure access to registrants in case of issues. As a result, the user experience with .SECURITY domains will be trusted, giving confidence that purchases or other type of interaction with secure entities in the security-related industries are legitimate and safe.
The .SECURITY Premium Domains will be operated and developed directly by Defender Security to promote the TLD through their existing activities in the security-related industries; or by Defender Security partners. Such partners are selected in accordance with strict requirements for existing activities and for management of the Premium Names. The Premium Names will set a standard for all other .SECURITY registrants and as a result will reduce users' exposure to malicious conduct by serving secure and high quality relevant content to search engines. This in turn will help obtain higher search engine results for a long tail of security-related keywords served by the differentiated, unique and focused .SECURITY Premium Names incorporating local, national and regional searches. This type of search result ranking criteria is already implemented by search engines such as Google and Bing with existing TLDs (such as .GOV for government-related content or .EDU for education-related content) and ccTLDs (such as .DE for local content served to users in Germany) since those results are deemed trusted and/or highly relevant.
Search engines are expected to modify their algorithms to accommodate relevant, high quality and unique content, especially if it can be used to filter and counter illegitimate and infringing websites. The official Google Blog highlights the new Google algorithm changes (http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/2012/02/search-quality-highlights-40-changes.html) that will be leveraged by the .SECURITY Premium Names to benefit .SECURITY registrants and achieve higher search rankings.

18b (iv) To reach the above mentioned goals, Defender Security has implemented several measures to protect intellectual property rights in registrations under .SECURITY, and to ensure that .SECURITY domains are used in a manner benefitting the security-related industries resulting in reducing online abuse that currently exists.
The policies are built to take advantage of the latest technology in DNS security resources and using TLD best practices and experience from the previous ICANN new gTLD introductions; and they are established to ensure a higher security level for .SECURITY domains than what is considered standard requirements for gTLDs. Defender Security will work with law enforcement agencies, government entities, security-focused DNS technical stakeholders, and partners in all security-related industries to continuously ensure that the TLD management operations exceed expectations.
Aside from the below described policies, the .SECURITY TLD will be launched with all the standard gTLD registration rules, e.g. in terms of grace-periods. See response to question #27 for .SECURITY lifecycle. Defender Security will adhere to all ICANN mandated rights protection mechanisms and consensus policies in accordance with the ICANN Registry Agreement.
RESERVATION PROTECTION: second-level names will be reserved per ICANN requirements, including country-territory names (see response #22) and names for registry operations.
INNOVATIVE PREMIUM NAMES RESERVATIONS: premium name reservations to develop the Premium Channels (e.g home.SECURITY) to (i) promote the .SECURITY TLD through Defender Security's existing activities in the security-related industries, (ii) for Partnerships with actors in the security industry to generate dedicated information sharing and access to security industries, and (iii) to generate local directories to enable efficient local security-related discovery.
Defender Security will also reserve a list of highly-sensitive names under .SECURITY, such as homeland.SECURITY. These can only be registered by the relevant authority it is reserved for, or it will forever be blocked for registration.
RIGHTS PROTECTION AND NOTIFICATIONS SYSTEM:
• Trademark Clearing House will be implemented in accordance with ICANN specifications.
• Introductory Sunrise phase to allow trademark holders fulfilling the ICANN established marks criteria a first access to register under .SECURITY. Trademarks will be validated to control access into the Sunrise phase.
THREE TIME-RESTRICTED LAUNCH PHASES in the following order (i) Sunrise for and to protect trademark holders (ii) Landrush and (iii) General Availability to ensure all Internet users have access to .SECURITY creating fair competition with other gTLDs.
Multiple applications for the same domain in either the Sunrise or Landrush phase will be decided upon via a mini-auction after the phase. In General Availability the domains are available for all applicants on a first-come-first-serve basis.
ANTI-ABUSE POLICY for all registrants under .SECURITY; incorporated in the registration agreement for all .SECURITY registrants. It is in place to prevent malicious use of domains which can lead to security and stability issues for the registry, registrars, and registrants, and general users of the Internet. It is detailed in response to question #28.
REGISTRY DATA VALIDATION: Defender Security will validate elements of the received WHOIS data as a requirement for .SECURITY domain registration. If registrants do not comply with the data validation requirements, after notification and adequate time to cure such incompliance, the domains will go through the deletion process. Exact validations will continuously be evaluated to be sufficient based on continuously evaluations of the security level of the TLD, and increased if deemed necessary. Defender Security will take advice from law-enforcement agencies, government stakeholders, technical bodies focused on DNS security, and premium names partners from across security-related industries to always ensure that .SECURITY is managed with best available resources. The initial validation data will be determined based on additional reviews of resources such as for example the Five C's WHOIS model [http://costarica43.icann.org/node/29531] presented at the recent ICANN meeting in Costa Rica, but is anticipated to at minimum include:
1.The registrant's email address through validation links
2.The registrant's phone number through validated PIN-codes

Additionally, Defender Security will reserve the right to implement content & use policy, as well as a name-restriction policy for which names can be registered under .SECURITY and restrictions in terms of usage and content of websites associated with .SECURITY. Defender Security will perform due diligence in making such determination including seeking advice from its Advisory Committee. In such case Defender Security will also implement a corresponding .SECURITY Policy Dispute Resolution Process (SPDRP) to solve dispute concerning compliance with such policies.
COMPLIANCE AND ENFORCEMENT
Defender Security will take proactive and reactive measures to enforce its TLD policies. Proactive measures are taken at the time of registration. Reactive measures are addressed via compliance and enforcement mechanisms and through dispute processes.
Any potential SPDRP is not a replacement for the UDRP/URS and alleged violation of the UDRP/URS shall be enforced under the provisions contained therein.
The UDRP and URS are required in the registrarsʹ registration agreements with registrants, and proceedings must be brought by interested third parties in accordance with the associated policies and procedures to dispute resolution providers.
Defender Security will conduct random compliance efforts across all the .SECURITY criteria. Periodically a sample of .SECURITY registrations will be verified for compliance with all established .SECURITY criteria.
If a Registrant is found out of compliance with any of the .SECURITY criteria the registrant will be notified that the domain will be placed on registry lock and the registrant will be given a reasonable time period to cure the compliance matter or the domain will be terminated.
Repeat offenders of the .SECURITY criteria will be placed on a special monitoring list that Defender Security staff will conduct additional compliance checks against. Defender Security holds the right to prohibit repeat offenders from registering .SECURITY domains for a period of time or indefinitely.
Defender Security will review all policies and processes on a regular basis with involvement from the .SECURITY Advisory Committee.
18b (v) The .SECURITY TLD will use best practices around privacy and data protection. Afilias, the back-end service provider will administer specific WHOIS protections per response to question #26, and promote WHOIS accuracy per response to question #28.
The .SECURITY TLD is established to allow entities in security-related industries to identify themselves online and be discovered and have as much visibility and exposure as possible. Defender Security will provide this unique and branded visibility. The domain registration services and Premium Name development will be designed to respect the privacy of personally identifiable information and confidential information, including with respect to applicable local laws for regional or local focused premium names.
18b (vi) In order to meet the benefits described in responses to 18b (i-v) Defender Security is committed to continue to conduct and expand upon outreach and communication activities. A primary goal with .SECURITY is trust, and from that goal a long range of benefits is met. To reach trust communication and outreach is key, as well as allowing participation through that outreach and communication, including the following:
1. Create an advisory committee in support and development of .SECURITY. The advisory committee will be created from holders of .SECURITY premium names. The goal of this committee will be to create trust in and knowledge of the .SECURITY brand. The association will be developed under the following principles:
1.1. Developed for the interest and benefit of premium .SECURITY name holders
1.2. Community will be solicited on ideas to create and promote a successful association
1.3. Premium name holders will be requested to provide input on the associations operational guidelines
1.4. Public meeting will be held with participating stakeholders
1.5. Interim group will be established
1.6. Inaugural meeting will be held to create bylaws and association rules
2. Participate in trade shows and communities tangential to the .SECURITY brand with the goal to create and expand awareness of the .SECURITY brand.
3. Launch a .SECURITY website to promote .SECURITY awareness
4. Create a digital/print .SECURITY newsletter that will be distributed to groups interested in .SECURITY
5. Establish .SECURITY annual conference, marketing summit and educational opportunities to expand the use and penetration of the .SECURITY brand.
6. Create membership organization for members holding non-premium names.

Defender Security's plan for launching the .SECURITY TLD and the .SECURITY Premium Names offer a robust, cost-effective means for the stakeholders in the security-related industries to assert their identities online. Defender Security is committed to launch and manage .SECURITY in a responsible manner for the global Internet community with enhanced safeguards and Defender Security's background and commitment to operational excellence if demonstrated by the following examples; and such will be continued in the registry operations.
1) Defender earned a spot on 2011 Information Week 500 List of Top Technology Innovators Across America. The company was recognized and received this award for a large scale upgrade to its core critical systems. This upgrade allowed the company to continue its rapid growth and expand existing and create new product lines, while at the same time improving the overall customer experience and sales process. These extensive infrastructure improvements included a new network and server virtualization. With the introduction of a state-of-the-art Interactive Intelligence telephone solution that was tightly integrated into a new custom-developed CRM application with an extensive data layer improvement, data points are logged through the entire customer experience. This created a more dynamic, scripted sales process and allows Defender to continue to fine-tune the process and improve key metric performance indicators.
2) Defender was recently accredited for a second time by the American Teleservices Associationʹs (ATA) Self-Regulatory Organization (SRO). Defender was one of the first 10 companies in the country to be accredited, a unique and distinctive accomplishment. As a part of the accreditation process, all of Defender operations were audited. The SRO was particularly impressed by the standards of the following categories:
• Inbound call practices
• FTC regulatory compliance
• State registrations
• Call monitoring and quality assurance
• Compliance management systems
Defender Security was extremely honored to receive this accreditation as it demonstrated its adherence to FTCʹs requirements for telemarketing laws and regulations. This dedication also lead to team members providing customers with consistent and high quality service, thus ensuring a positive customer experience.
Defender Security demonstrates its core mission to serve the interest of the security-related industry. This includes minimizing and eliminating social costs; establishing a better financial income stream; assisting the security-related industries in establishment of new improved innovative services by communicating online security information and messages to address needs across security-related industries.
REGISTRATION PRICING
The .SECURITY registration fee will adopt a moderate, competitive pricing point taking into consideration:
1. As indicated by the McAfee's 2011 security report (http://us.mcafee.com/en-us/local/docs/MTMW_Report.pdf), pricing is one of the most influential factors taken into consideration by registrants aiming to conduct malicious activity and abuse. Domains with low registration prices have a higher likelihood for abuse. Prices in the middle and higher end ensure there is a slight barrier to entry to reduce the number of registrants offering low quality content, such as parking pages, as well as to fight cybersquatting and piracy on .SECURITY since registrants are more likely to register a cheaper domain to conduct illegal activity since there is less financial risk for them.
2. A benchmark analysis of comparable gTLDs and ccTLDs existing today.
ELIMINATION OF SOCIAL NETWORK TIME AND COSTS EXPENSES
A more indirect minimization of social costs relates to .SECURITY Registrants and users having an immediate benefit of easy recognition and discovery via the .SECURITY Premium Channels. This engagement through .SECURITY build-in social networks minimizes time and expense that otherwise, would have been used for marketing by the registrants; and Defender Security's goal to replace top search rankings of illegitimate security sites will be tackled by implementing search engine optimization best-practices for Premium Channels that will complement .SECURITY registrant sites, increasing general brand awareness for .SECURITY's trust factor by creating a safe haven for security consumption, and improving international security discovery.
ESTABLISHMENT OF FINANCIAL INCOME STREAM
As discussed the goal with .SECURITY results in the search engines has one immediate benefit in eliminating fraudulent sites providing free or otherwise illegal security consumption. It further reduces the costs and expenses used in the security-related industries to fight illegal behavior.
Additional measures for minimizing social costs are described in the following subsections:
i) In the two initial launch phases multiple applications will be resolved via auction. During the general availability stage domains will be allocated in a first come-first serve basis.
ii) Defender Security will implement a competitive pricing structure based on above criteria avoiding abusive behavior in the TLD and through benchmark analysis of comparable gTLDs and ccTLDs existing today. Defender Security will offer the market an affordable domain to build a unique and exclusive presence online, ensuring the cost of the domain is optimally priced to cover registry activities that are established to prevent malicious behavior and abuse traditionally experienced in less financially low-priced domains. Depending on the cost of doing business and other economic factors, Defender Security may from time to time increase or lower the wholesale price in accordance with the provisions of Section 2.10 of the New gTLD Registry Agreement.
Defender Security might choose to incorporate cost benefits in relation to advantageous pricing, introductory discounts, or bulk discounts to assist in increasing domain sales if needed to meet registry financial and operational needs, especially in the situation where the most likely projected registration volume (see responses to questions #45-50) is not met. In that situation, Defender Security will consider implementing targeted marketing campaigns that include discounted prices.
Otherwise Defender Security does not have specific plans for advantageous pricing, introductory pricing, nor plans for any bulk registration discounts.
iii) Defender Security will not offer long term or permanent contracts (beyond that of the maximum term of 10 years) for domains. Defender Security has carefully considered the needs of the market in setting its prices on its services. Any price escalations or reductions will be reasonably justified and managed in accordance with the provisions of Section 2.10 of the New gTLD Registry Agreement.
iv) Defender Security will prohibit the use of parked pages. .SECURITY websites will be subject to the use restrictions described in response to question 18b. Parked sites can only be used as temporary pages assigned to a domain at the time of registration and stay in place until the registrant has a website developed and ready to go live within a reasonable time period.

Defender Security protects geographic names at the second level of .SECURITY by the following described measures. These have been developed in response to the GAC's Principles regarding New gTLDs, dated March 28, 2007, and to adhere to the requirements of the ICANN Registry Agreement Specification 5.

In correspondence with GAC principle 2.7, all country and territory names under .SECURITY are reserved for registration free of charge for the corresponding countries and territories. To accomplish this we will prior to launch (i) place the names on a reserved list that can solely be released as second-level registrations under .SECURITY by an agreement with the respective country or territory and with ICANN; and (ii) include in the registration policy that country and territory names are prohibited for use at lower levels.

The names reserved as country and territory names will correspond to the requirements in the ICANN Registry Agreement Specification 5, paragraph 5; and paragraph 2 where all two-character labels will be reserved for registration. Any release of such names is done to the appropriate corresponding country or territory and thereby avoids user confusion. All other Specification 5 requirements are also included in the reserved names.

When Defender Security is launching Internationalized Domain Names under the TLD translated versions of country and territory names will be placed on a reserved list that
also only can be released for registration if an agreement has been reached with the corresponding country or territory and ICANN.

Dispute resolution policies will address dispute over any names not reserved by the above provisions; see response to question #28 and #29. In particular all domains awarded to registrants are subject to the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP), and to any properly-situated court proceeding. We will ensure appropriate procedures to allow governments, public authorities or IGO's to challenge abuses of names with national or geographic significance at the second level. In its registry-registrar agreement, and flowing down to registrar-registrant agreements, the registry operator will institute a provision to suspend domains names in the event of a dispute. We may exercise that right in the case of a dispute over a geographic name.

The release of a two-character, country, or territory name as second level registration will be done in agreement with the corresponding country or territory and ICANN. We will define a procedure so that governments can request the above reserved domain(s) if they would like to take possession of them. This procedure will be based on existing methodology developed for the release of country names in the .INFO TLD. For example, we will require a written request from the country's GAC representative, or a written request from the country's relevant Ministry or Department. We will allow the designated beneficiary (the Registrant) to register the name, with an accredited Afilias Registrar, possibly using an authorization number transmitted directly to the designated beneficiary in the country concerned.

Other GAC Principles regarding New gTLDs are defined elsewhere in this application, for example methods for limiting the need for defensive registrations in paragraph 2.9 is described in response to question #18b; efforts concerning data accuracy, integrity and validity is described in response to question #18b and #26.