.spreadbetting FAQ

Registrants must meet the following requirements:

• Be an entity holding one or more regulatory permissions granted by the UK Financial Conduct Authority in respect of the spread betting space.
• Be an entity holding one or more regulatory permissions granted by the Central Bank of Ireland in respect of the spread betting space.

Required Information:

• Authorisation number provided by a financial regulator, as relevant to the jurisdiction it operates.
• Identify the regulatory permissions that it holds, such as:
  Introducing, Advising, Counterparty to client trades, Discretionary Management, Dealings as an Agent, Other

Verification Process:

Due to this TLD being restricted, there will be a Validation process incorporated into the registration process. Validation of the information submitted by the domain name applicant will be carried out by a third party, Valideus, before a domain name is granted. Validation will occur during the 30 day pending create phase.

The domain name applicant (Registrant) will be contacted directly by Valideus, having received information from the Registry, and will be asked to log on to a portal to supply additional information to determine eligibility for the domain name.

Failure to pass the validation process within the available timeframe (30 days) may result in deletion of the domain name.

In accordance with ICANN schedule of reserved names the following are restricted: “EXAMPLE” shall be reserved at the second level and at all other levels within the TLD at which Registry Operator makes registrations.
Two-character labels: All two-character labels shall be initially reserved. The reservation of a two character label string may be released to the extent that Registry Operator reaches agreement with the government and country-code manager. The Registry Operator may also propose release of these reservations based on its implementation of measures to avoid confusion with the corresponding country codes.
Tagged Domain Names: Labels may only include hyphens in the third and fourth position if they represent valid internationalized domain names in their ASCII encoding (for example "xn--ndk061n").
Second-Level Reservations for Registry Operations: The following names are reserved for use in connection with the operation of the registry for the TLD. Registry Operator may use them, but upon conclusion of Registry Operator's designation as operator of the registry for the TLD they shall be transferred as specified by ICANN: NIC, WWW, IRIS and WHOIS.
Country and Territory Names: The country and territory names contained in the following internationally recognized lists shall be initially reserved at the second level and at all other levels within the TLD at which the Registry Operator provides for registrations.

Top Level Reserved Names: AFRINIC, IANA-SERVERS, NRO, ALAC, ICANN, RFC-EDITOR, APNIC, IESG, RIPE, ARIN, IETF, ROOT-SERVERS, ASO, INTERNIC, RSSAC, CCNSO, INVALID, SSAC, EXAMPLE, IRTF, TEST, GAC, ISTF, TLD, GNSO, LACNIC, WHOIS, GTLD-SERVERS, LOCAL, WWW, IAB, LOCALHOST, IANA, NIC, All International Olympic Committee names, All International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement names.