Domain Registration Rules for Generic Domain Names Domain Names have a variety of basic rules:   .COM, .NET and .ORG Domain Names Terms .COM - to be used for commercial and personal sites .NET - recommended for companies involved in Internet .ORG - recommended for none profit organizations   Use only letters, numbers, or hyphen ("-") Cannot begin or end with a hyphen Must have less than 63* characters, not including .COM, .NET and .ORG *.com, .net and .org names exceeding a total of 26 characters are supported by most browsers. However,certain browsers, email programs and other related applications may not support domain names over 26 characters.   .BIZ Domain Names   .BIZ - WebSite, to be used for commercial sites Use only letters, numbers, or hyphen ("-") Cannot begin or end with a hyphen .BIZ domains registered through us can not have more then 63 characters (Minimum 3 characters) not including the .BIZ extension.   .INFO  Domain Names   .INFO - WebSite, to be used for commercial / personal sites Use only letters, numbers, or hyphen ("-") Cannot begin or end with a hyphen .INFO domains registered through us can not have more then 63 characters (Minimum 3 characters)  not including the .INFO extension.   .NAME Domain Names   .NAME - Eligibility requirements .name is aimed exclusively for people's personal names, for use as both a domain name and an email forwarding account. Definition of personal name A personal name in the .name context, is a person's legal name, or a name by which the person is commonly known. This includes pseudonyms and stage names. Any individual or entity is eligible to register a personal name if it falls into one of the following categories: The personal name of an individual, providing it is his or her own personal name The personal name of a fictional character, providing that individual or entity has trademarks or service mark rights in that character's personal name Additional characters. Registrants may add numeric characters to their personal name to differentiate it from other personal names, e.g. john.smith2001.name or john1950.smith.name   .TV Domain Names     Most domain names available for US $50! Common dictionary words and phrases** can now be registered at various fixed prices without auction. Use only letters, numbers, or hyphen ("-") Cannot begin or end with a hyphen Must have less than 50 characters Also includes 1- to 3- character combinations; see our Registration Agreement for additional details.   .WS Domain Names .WS - WebSite, to be used for commercial / personal sites Use only letters, numbers, or hyphen ("-") Cannot begin or end with a hyphen .WS domains registered through us must have between 2 and 59 characters, not including the .WS extension   .CC Domain Names .CC - WebSite, to be used for commercial / personal sites Use only letters, numbers, or hyphen ("-") Cannot begin or end with a hyphen .CC domains registered through us can not have more then 45 characters not including the .CC extension.   .US.COM Domain Names WebSite, to be used for commercial / personal sites Use only letters, numbers, or hyphen ("-") Cannot begin or end with a hyphen .US.COM domains registered through us can not have more then 63 characters (Minimum 3 characters)  including the .US.COM extension.   .US Domain Names WebSite, to be used for commercial / personal sites Use only letters, numbers, or hyphen ("-") Cannot begin or end with a hyphen .US domains registered through us can not have more then 63 characters (Minimum 3 characters)  including the .US extension. Registration Restrictions Any United States Business or Individual can now register their own domain name in the new dot US name space to establish their own American Internet identity. Individuals, organizations, businesses, city/county governments, Native Sovereign Nations, schools (K-12, private, community colleges), libraries, state agencies, and museums may all obtain a .US domain name.

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