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1. PURPOSE
The purpose of this document is to describe the rules for the allocation of names within the .AC domain and its sub-domains. NIC.AC is responsible for the day-to-day running of the NIC.
The purpose of this document is to describe the rules for the allocation of names within the .AC domain and its sub-domains. NIC.AC is responsible for the day-to-day running of the NIC.
2. PROCESS DETAIL
2.1 The rules given here apply to all requests for names in the .AC domain and all sub-domains of .AC except where differing rules exist for a sub-domain. The rules for a sub-domain shall incorporate all the rules in this document along with such additional rules that are required. Agreement of the Management of NIC.AC shall be required if the rules of a sub-domain are to exclude any of the rules of this document. Their agreement shall not unreasonably be withheld.
2.2 Where a dispute over the interpretation of the rules exists, the Management of NIC.AC shall rule on the interpretation.
2.3 All NEW second and third level domain requests will conform to RFCs 1034, 1035, 1122, 1123 and any subsequent replacements. For designated zones the requests may be handeled by a robot. This robot will apply the appropriate RFCs, the rules and a check against the list of existing domain names. It may also check that operating nameservers exist for the request.
2.4 If the rules are changed in the future, some names approved under one set of rules might be rejected under the revised rules. No rule change will ever affect the status of a name which has been approved before the change unless sound technical reasons require this.
3. MANDATORY RULES FOR SECOND LEVEL DOMAINS
3.1 An applicant may cpr144449003101 reside in any legal jurisdiction.
3.2 Single or two letter or number domain names are not allowed. Two letter ISO 3166 country codes and Country names are reserved.
3.3 There shall be at least two nameservers for the domain (with addresses specified in the request) operating at the time the request is submitted. There is no requirement for the nameserver to be physically located on Ascension Island. There is no restriction on the IP address of these nameservers.
4. MANDATORY RULES FOR THIRD LEVEL DOMAINS
4.1 An applicant must be resident on Ascension Island.
4.2 Two character names within an Third LD are allowed. i.e. 3x.com.ac
4.3 All second level names used by NIC.AC are banned from being used as third level names. e.g. com.com.ac would be banned as it is a second level name.
4.5 All top level domains are banned from being used as third level names. e.g. net.org.ac and org.com.ac are not allowed.
4.6 All One Letter domains (i.e.[a-z].xxx.ac) are reserved to cater for possible future sub-domain usage. The owner shall still maintain it unless they volunteer to relinquish it.
4.7 There shall be at least two nameservers for the domain (with addresses specified in the request) operating at the time the request is submitted. At least one nameserver must be physically located on Ascension. There is no restriction on the IP address of these nameservers.
