In effect as of 1 January 2010
1. INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS
1.1. This document determines the rules for the registration and delegation of the second-level Domain Names under ccTLD .cz.
1.2. The terms used in these Rules of Registration have the following meaning:
1.2.1. Central Register – a database of Domain Names, their holders and other persons administered by CZ.NIC. The Central Registe is the source for Domain Name delegation into the CZ zone administered by the primary name server.
1.2.2. CZ.NIC – an interest association of legal entities CZ.NIC, identification number 67985726.
1.2.3. Delegated Domain Name – a registered Domain Name for which CZ.NIC maintains a record on the primary name server (“CZ zone”).
1.2.4. Day of Registration – the day when the registration of the Domain Name in the Central Register occurs.
1.2.5. Day of Expiration – the day following the day on which the expiration of the registered Domain Name occurs.
1.2.6. ccTLD .cz -country code Top Level Domain (top-level domain, also called the national domain) of the Czech Republic.
1.2.7. Domain Name – second-level domain consisting of a permissible combination of permissible characters.
1.2.8. Holder – natural person or legal entity who registered the Domain Name; if the name of the company or organization is not included in the record, the person who submitted the request for the Domain Name is considered the Holder; if the name of the company or organization is included, it is considered to be the Holder.
1.2.9. Contact – the record of a specific person (natural or legal) maintained in the Central Registry. A Contact may be administrative, technical or in the Holder’s role.
1.2.10. Rules of Alternative Dispute Resolution – a document published by CZ.NIC, containing the Holder’s public proposal of arbitration, which forms an integral part of the Rules of Registration.
1.2.11. Rules of Registration – the document “Rules of Domain Names Registration under ccTLD .cz” published by CZ.NIC.
1.2.12. Registrar – a subject entitled to access in a defined way the Central Register and submit requests for the changes of records administered by the Central Register. All changes of the Central Register can be done only through a Registrar.
1.2.13. Key Set – a record file containing at least one DNS key intended for secure delegation of the domain name by means of the DNSSEC technology and at least one technical Contact.
1.2.14. Nameserver Set – a record file containing at least 2 nameservers and at least one technical Contact.
1.2.15. Appointed Registrar – the Registrar for a specific Domain Name appointed by the Holder, for a specific Contact appointed by the Contact concerned, for a specific Nameserver Set appointed by the technical Contact of the nameservers, or for a specific Key Set appointed by the Contact of the Key Set concerned. A single Appointed Registrar is set for every registered Domain Name, Contact, Nameserver Set and Key Set.
1.2.16. Applicant – a natural person or legal entity submitting a request for registration of the Domain Name.
2. DOMAIN NAME REGISTRATION
2.1. Domain Names are registered through a Registrar.
2.2. The Registrar is obliged to obtain the consent of every Applicant to the current version of the Rules of Registration as a condition of the Domain Name registration. This consent is obtained only if the up-todate version of the Rules of Registration was accepted by the Applicant, so that the consent of the Applicant to the contents of the Rules of Registration is apparent. The following is considered to be a valid consent:
2.2.1. A Domain Name registration order has been placed,
2.2.2. The price has been paid for the Domain Name registration or, if relevant, for any other service that the Registrar may connect with registering the Domain Name,
2.2.3. The Holder has begun to use a Domain Name, or
2.2.4. The Holder has effected any other act toward the Registrar or CZ.NIC, provided that such an act pertains to changing records on the given Domain Name that are kept in the Central Registry.
2.3. The individual giving consent to the current version of the Rules of Registration on behalf of the Applicant in connection with an application for Domain Name registration at the same time declares that he or she is authorized to act on the Applicant’s behalf in this matter.
2.4. Registrars are obliged to make available and document at any time by request of CZ.NIC the consent of the Holder to the current version of the Rules of Registration on the date of registration, according to Paragraph 2.2. CZ.NIC is entitled to make available and document such information to the court of justice, arbitration court or other state authority for the purposes of legal, arbitration, administrative, criminal or any other proceedings.
2.5. CZ.NIC registers the Domain Names according to the order in which the individual registration requests submitted through the Registrars were delivered. CZ.NIC files the records of every received registration request.
2.6. The Domain Name is registered always for an entire year beginning with the Day of Registration of the Domain Name, up to a max. of 10 years.
2.7. Upon the registration of a Domain Name, the Domain Name is reserved for the Holder for the specified period of time.
2.8. CZ.NIC will register the Domain Name if
2.8.1. the registration request does not contain any imperfections preventing it from further processing;
2.8.2. the existing Domain Name has been assigned with an existing Contact in the role of the Holder;
2.8.3. all required information has been properly filled in;
2.8.4. the Applicant agreed with the current version of the Rules of Registration and Rules of Alternative Dispute Resolution;
2.8.5. the requested Domain Name is not, at the time of processing of the request, registered by the Central Register;
2.8.6. the requested Domain Name conforms to the regulations for the creation of Domain Names (see Article 10), and
2.8.7. applicable payments of appropriate prices are settled concurrently with the registration.
3. DOMAIN NAME REGISTRATION RENEWAL
3.1. Domain Name registration may be renewed by means of the Appointed Registrar.
3.2. Domain Name registration may even repeatedly be renewed for whole multiples of a year, yet for no more than 10 years. CZ.NIC will renew a registration if
3.2.1. CZ.NIC receives a request for registration renewal at the latest on the day on which the period for which the Domain Name was registered elapses (this is without prejudice to the possibility to renew a Domain Name registration during the protection period according to Article 6.2);
3.2.2. the Holder agreed with the current version of the Rules of Registration on the date of the registration renewal, whereas the provisions in Articles 2.2, 2.3 and 2.4 are used similarly;
3.2.3. applicable payments of appropriate prices are settled concurrently.
4. DOMAIN NAME DELEGATION
4.1. A registered Domain Name does not have to be Delegated. Nullification of the Domain Name Delegation does not affect the Domain Name registration.
4.2. CZ.NIC delegates a registered Domain Name, to which just one Nameserver Set is assigned.
4.3. CZ.NIC is entitled to conduct periodic technical inspections of name servers in the Nameserver Set and of DNS keys in the Key Set assigned to the Domain Name.
4.4. When a Domain Name registration is cancelled, the Domain Name delegation is terminated without further ado. When the assignment of a Nameserver Set to a Domain Name is canceled, the Domain Name delegation is canceled with further ado. Under the terms and conditions defined by these Rules of Registration, a Domain Name delegation may also be canceled if a Nameserver Set is still assigned to it.
5. DOMAIN NAME TRANSFER
5.1. CZ.NIC will register a change of the Domain Name Holder (a Domain Name transfer) upon request submitted through the Appointed Registrar of the given Domain Name. The Appointed Registrar may submit a request for a change of the Domain Name Holder upon written request of the Holder and the future Holder.
5.2. The Registrar is obliged to acquire the consent of the future Holder to the current version of the Rules of Registration and the Rules of Alternative Dispute Resolution on the date of the transfer of the Domain Name, while the provisions in Articles 2.2, 2.3 and 2.4 are applied similarly.
5.3. No entitlement to a refund of the paid price or any part thereof arises for the Holder from its Domain Name transfer.
5.4. The transfer of the Domain Name does not affect the latter’s Day of Expiration.
6. TERMINATION OF THE DOMAIN NAME REGISTRATION
6.1. CZ.NIC will cancel the registration of a Domain Name upon request submitted through the Appointed Registrar of the Domain Name. No entitlement to a refund of the paid price or any part thereof arises from canceling the registration of a Domain Name.
6.2. If a Domain Name registration is not renewed before the Day of Expiration (Article 3), then on the Day of Expiration the Domain Name enters a “protection period” of 45 days.
6.2.1. The Domain Name registration may be renewed in compliance with Article 3 hereof retroactively from the Day of Expiration..
6.2.2. If the Domain Name is not renewed in the first 30 days of the protection period, CZ.NIC is entitled to terminate the Delegation of the Domain Name. In such a case, the Domain Name delegation cannot be renewed, not even by changing details in the assigned Nameserver Set or by assigning a different Nameserver Set to the Domain Name concerned.
6.2.3. The registration of a Domain Name expires when the protection period has elapsed unless the Domain Name registration is renewed during the protection period.
6.3. If the agreement between an Appointed Registrar and CZ.NIC is terminated, based on which the Appointed Registrar enjoyed the Registrar status, the registrations of Domain Names registered through the Appointed Registrar will not be terminated. The Holder may designate another Appointed Registrar at any time afterwards.
7. REGISTRATION OF CONTACTS
7.1. A single Contact can be used for more than one Domain Name (Contact in the role of a Holder or an administrative Contact), Nameserver Set (a technical Contact) or a Key Set (a technical Contact).
7.2. Contacts are registered by means of a Registrar. By filing an application in this respect, the given person expresses its consent to these Rules of Registration by means of the Registrar.
8. CHANGES AND THEIR AUTHORIZATION
8.1. The wording of a Domain Name cannot be modified.
8.2. The Registrar, who requested the change, is responsible towards CZ.NIC for authentication, authorization and validity of such an instruction.
8.3. CZ.NIC will change data in the Central Registry upon request by the persons that are stated for each of the Domain Names, Contacts, Nameserver Sets, and Key Sets, as the persons authorized to make such changes, provided that the request is submitted by means of the relevant Registrar.
8.4. For a Contact that is a legal entity, apart from the person stated in the Contact record, acts may also be effected by a person or persons authorized to act on behalf of the legal entity. In such a case, an officially certified signature is required for the authentication. The officially certified signature shall also be accompanied by an original or certified copy of an excerpt from the Commercial Register (not older than 3 months) or an excerpt from an analogous registry. The name of the legal entity in the official excerpt must be identical with the legal entity’s name stated in the Contact in the field meant to show the name of the company or organization; the confirming person(s) must be authorized to act on behalf of the legal entity in line with the official excerpt. If the authorized person is represented, then appended to the confirmation must also be a Power of Attorney with an officially authenticated signature.
8.5. If multiplepersons are entered in the Central Registry that are competent to make the same change, then the change can be made upon request by any of these persons.
8.6. Changing Domain Name information
A request for changing Domain Name data may only be made by means of the Appointed Registrar except for changing the Appointed Registrar itself; this type of change can only be made by means of a new Appointed Registrar.
8.7. Changing Contact information Contact data may be changed by means of the Appointed Contact Registrar.
8.8. Changing Nameserver Set information Nameserver Set data may be changed by means of the Appointed Registrar of the Nameserver Set.
8.9. Change of the Key Set data Key Set data may be changed by means of the Appointed Registrar of the Key Set.
1 Request For Comments – it means denomination of a series of documents containing researches, measurements and observations as well as proposed and accepted standards for the TCP/IP protocol
Therefore, it is possible to provide only information related to the specific Contacts or specific Domain Names. Under the same conditions, CZ.NIC is also entitled to provide information about historical data, if available.
11.7.Upon request of the current Domain name Holder, CZ.NIC will provide historical data from the Central Register which pertain to the Domain Name, i.e. data about the previous Domain name Holders since the date of the most recent Domain name registration for the maximum of last 5 years. For the purpose of this provision, the term “historical data” refers to such data about the previous Holders which cannot be designated as hidden as in Appendix No. 1; data about the current Holder are provided irrespective of whether they can be designated by Appendix No. 1 as hidden. Historical data for the period preceding the day 01.01.2010 are provided anonymously; this restriction does not apply to the current Domain Name Holder. Historical data can only be provided if available.
11.8. CZ.NIC is entitled, at its discretion, to optimise the information kept in the Central Register. For this purpose CZ.NIC is entitled to merge Contact records differing only by the identifier of the Contact. In the case that CZ.NIC performs such a merger, all links of the merged Contacts to the Domain Names, Namserver Sets, and Key Sets will be preserved so that these links are transferred onto the Contact with which the other Contacts were merged with. The affected persons will be notified by CZ.NIC of such a merger.
12. RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF CZ.NIC
12.1. Adhering to these Rules of Registration, the CZ.NIC association undertakes to
12.1.1. perform the Domain Name registration and maintain such a registration in compliance with defined conditions,
12.1.2. keep record of a registered Domain Name in the Central Register,
12.1.3. keep a record of the delegated Domain Name in the CZ zone; and
12.1.4. make every effort that may be reasonably required to ensure a fault-free and smooth operation of the Central Register and the primary name server.
12.2. CZ.NIC association is entitled to terminate, at its discretion, a Domain Name registration if
12.2.1. the information kept in relation to the Domain Name in the Central Register is untrue, incomplete or misleading,
12.2.2. no additional information is provided according to the article 11.4 within 15 days after sending the notice,
12.2.3. facts, on the basis of which the Domain Name was registered, change, for example if the Holder ceases to exist without any legal successor or dies without any heirs,
12.2.4. consent to the Rules of Registration or Rules of alternative settlement of disputes was not granted in compliance with these documents,
12.2.5. such right arises from other provisions of the Rules of Registration.
12.3. CZ.NIC association is entitled to accept technical measures aimed especially at limitation of the direct online operation endangering the stability of CZ.NIC systems, even if such measures lead or may lead to limitations of availability of the CZ.NIC services, functioning of the registered Domain Names, name servers etc. CZ.NIC association does not bear any responsibility for the damages incurred, but it is obliged to make every effort that may be reasonably required to terminate such measures as soon as possible.
12.4. The cancellation of a Domain Name carried out by the CZ.NIC association pursuant to the Rules of Registration does not constitute any title to the return of any fulfilment accepted by the CZ.NIC association from the Holder or any other person in relation to the Domain Name whose registration is to be cancelled.
12.5. The CZ.NIC association is entitled to invalidate the delegation of the Domain Name at its own discretion if the same is used in a fashion that endangers the national or international computer security, particularly if through the Domain Name or through the services which are made available by the same a harmful content (especially viruses, malware) is distributed or if the content of a different service is masqueraded (especially phishing), or if the hardware that is made available through the Domain Name becomes a control centre of interlinked hardware network distributing the harmful content (especially botnet). The CZ.NIC association is entitled to invalidate the delegation of the Domain Name for a period of up to 1 month, even repeatedly; however the association is not obliged to actively seek the Domain Names which would fit the definitions mentioned hereinabove. Details concerning the examination of conditions for invalidation of the delegation and the procedure of invalidation are determined by CZ.NIC-CSIRT. The procedure taken under this provision cannot be used to enforce the protection of the third parties’ property rights against spam distribution if the conditions given in the first sentence of this provision are not fulfilled.
16.4. CZ.NIC will cancel the delegation and/or the registration of a Domain Name, transfer the Domain Name to a different person and suspend the option to transfer the Domain Name to another person if this is stipulated in an executable court order or administrative decision or award of an arbiter or arbitration court, even if CZ.NIC itself has not been a party to the proceeding, in which such a decision was made. The decision shall be presented to CZ.NIC in its original or officially certified copy with a clause attached that certifies its legal effect and enforceability (such a clause is not required in the case of injunctions). No act of CZ.NIC effected according to this article will give rise to an entitlement to a refund of any payments received by CZ.NIC from the Holder or any other person in connection with the Domain Name, to which such an act pertains.
17. DOCUMENTS CHANGES
17.1. CZ.NIC is entitled to change the Rules of Registration as well as other relevant documents at any time. Current version of these documents is always available at http://www.nic.cz.
17.2. CZ.NIC is obliged to make public any changes of the documents stated in Article 17.1 at least 1 month before the effective date of such changes by publishing the change at http://www.nic.cz.
Appendix 1: Obligatory and concealable information in the records of the Domain Names, Contact, Namserver Sets and Key Sets