gTLD	Full Legal Name	E-mail suffix	Detail
.madrid	Comunidad de Madrid	madrid.org	View

The .MADRID TLD application is submitted by the Region of Madrid (Comunidad de Madrid), which is the Government of the region of Madrid region; analogous to the States in the Federal States of the USA) on behalf of, and for the Madrid community.

The following clauses (A), (B) and (C) describe the delineation of the Madrid community and corresponding policy principles of the .MADRID TLD.

(A) The Madrid community comprises individuals as citizens and legal entities with presence in the Region of Madrid. This territory comprises the 179 Municipalities, including the city of Madrid and its metropolitan area Madrid is the capital of Spain as established by art. 5 of the Spanish Constitution. A bona fide presence in the Madrid area may be determined by the following:

- residence in the Madrid area, or

- the pursuit of lawful business activities in the Madrid area, or

- the pursuit of cultural leisure, and sport activities in the Madrid area, or

- any other kind of direct or indirect presence that is generally accepted as legitimate for, and conducive to the welfare of, the Madrid area.

(B) Registration of domain names under the .MADRID TLD is restricted to members of the Madrid community and subject to the further requirement that the domain name registrant’s direct or indirect presence in the Madrid area and the registrant’s use of the domain name must be:

(1) of a kind that is generally accepted as legitimate and
(2) conducive to the welfare of the Madrid area and
(3) of commensurate quality to the role and importance of the respective domain name and
(4) based on good faith at the time of registration and thereafter.

(C) The government of the Region of Madrid, in relation to the requested .MADRID TLD, acts as the highest representative body for the Region of Madrid, as well as the representative of this community in dealings with other institutions of the Spanish state and its different administrative bodies, including the city of Madrid as state capital. In light of this, the full support of the Spanish Government has been obtained through the Secretary of State for Telecommunications, as well as for the Information Society and that of the city of Madrid, via its activities in the area of Economic Governance, Employment and Citizen Participation, with the common objective of establishing new channels for relationships based on good faith.



Answers to enumerated question points:

How the community is delineated from Internet users generally. Such descriptions may include, but are not limited to, the following: membership, registration, or licensing processes, operation in a particular industry, use of a language.

The Madrid community relates to the geographic area of the Region (Comunidad) of Madrid or the Madrid area, a described above. The Madrid area comprises the geographic urban areas of the city of Madrid. It is clearly recognizable by urban infrastructure, such as the local transport network in and around the City of Madrid. It also comprises 180 other municipalities of diverse size and character.

The delineation described under (A) above matches the reality of the Madrid community as it has existed since the advent of Madrid as a modern metropolis.

A Madrid community has existed for a long time. For as long as it has existed, those who belonged to it were those who had a bona fide presence in the urban area and its surroundings. With the advancement of civilization, new forms of presence (such as business or culture) have become generally accepted. A bona fide presence in the Madrid area may be direct or indirect, on the basis of domicile, activity, cultural links or any other constructive commitment to the Madrid area. It may be emanating from the area or be directed to the area.

Given the vast scope of a modern metropolitan community, and its surroundings, community membership always depends on context. This is why, for the purpose of domain registrations, the strength and quality of the registrant’s nexus must be commensurate to the role and importance of the domain name to the community.

In other words, a bona fide presence in the Madrid area (and thus community membership) is a necessary condition, NOT in itself a sufficient condition for the right to hold any imaginable .MADRID domain name. As the policy principles under (B) above description show, there are additional requirements specific to the intrinsic role and importance of the domain name in question. They concern in particular the nature of the registrant’s presence in the Madrid area and the registrant’s use of the domain name.

The wish to hold a .MADRID domain name is not in itself a sufficient indication of a bona fide presence in the Madrid area. Furthermore, if a person has been able to register a domain name in .MADRID, this does not in itself entitle that person to register any imaginable other .MADRID domain name.


How the community is structured and organized. For a community consisting of an alliance of groups, details about the constituent parts are required.

As any other modern metropolitan area, the Madrid community is organized to the highest degree. The Madrid area belongs to one single, highly integrated community. Because of if its importance and size, the community’s organization involves a number of public bodies and authorities on several levels (such as the Region, the Municipalities, and for the biggest among them, the Districts), treaties between public bodies, joint investments in public infrastructure companies, public-private partnerships, coordinated policies and legal frameworks that define the duties and prerogatives of each body. The public bodies are established by law and their representatives are democratically elected by universal suffrage. It goes without saying that private companies and cultural or welfare organizations also belong to the organization of the community.


When the community was established, including the date(s) of formal organization, if any, as well as a description of community activities to date.

The City of Madrid (and therefore the Greater Madrid Area) has existed as an organized community since Middle Age, having grown naturally over time. It has been the Court and then Capital of Spain since 1561.

The activities of the Madrid community are:
- the shared concerns and pursuits of the residents and stakeholders of the Madrid area (along with their organizations or public bodies)
- the shared use of the infrastructure and services of the Madrid area, such as transport, telecommunications, as well as culture, education, welfare and leisure,
- a strong focus for tourism, including leading role in cultural tourism (Madrid is the seat, for instance, of the World Tourism Organization).
- the role of the City of Madrid as capital of Spain.

The Madrid community includes extensive activities in the digital world specific to the Greater Madrid Community, both in the form of e-government services and public authorities’ contributions to the development of information society. The .MADRID TLD is designed to be directly related to the activities of the Madrid community, including fostering the use of electronic administration and promoting political and social participation.


The current estimated size of the community, both as to membership and geographic extent.

The population of the Madrid area is in the order of 7 million inhabitants. The geographic extension of the Madrid Region is at 8.021 square kilometers.

The Madrid Region comprises, beyond the City of Madrid, 179 Municipalities that can be found on www.madrid.org

gTLD	Full Legal Name	E-mail suffix	Detail
.ADAC	Allgemeiner Deutscher Automobil-Club e.V. (ADAC)	zentrale.adac.de	View

1) The Applicant is a not for-profit organization whose main purpose – as laid down in its statutes – is to represent and promote the interests of motorists, motorsports and tourism. Beyond the core services that ADAC traditionally provides to its members and in some cases also to non-members (road side assistance, air rescue, travel and traffic information and services) ADAC has extended the scope of its activities to a broad variety of products and services which mainly focus on one particular need of its members: mobility, be it in or outside Germany, be it for private or for professional purposes. It is the ADAC members – whose number currently amounts to about 18 million – and their needs that the Applicant is committed to serve since more than 100 years.
More information with respect to the Applicant can be found at its website: http:⁄⁄www.adac.de.
2) The Applicant is incorporated as a registered association (eingetragener Verein) under German law and as such has to comply with certain statutory requirements under German law, inter alia:
a) it must be of lasting, non-transient nature;
b) membership must be voluntary;
c) it has to establish a management board;
d) it has to pursue a not-for-profit purpose.
Within the boundaries of these statutory requirements, ADAC has established certain membership categories and an organizational and governance structure which can be briefly described as follows;
a) Membership categories:
I) Ordinary membership: eligible for ordinary membership is someone who possesses a motor vehicle or is interested in motor traffic. Ordinary members are obliged to pay an annual membership fee and entitled to benefit from certain services and products offered by ADAC. The membership relation itself is established with the regional club of the Applicant competent for the main residence of the (prospective) member.
II) Corporate membership: eligible for corporate membership are legal entities and certain associations.
III) Extraordinary and honorary membership.
Considering this, the membership of ADAC is clearly delineated.
b) Organizational structure: the ADAC consists of the following three entities
I) Regional clubs: ADAC consists of 18 regional clubs, which are independent legal entities covering a certain geographic area in Germany. In order to be affiliated with ADAC, each regional club is under the duty to accept and incorporate in its statutes certain minimum provisions which have previously been laid down by ADAC. The regional clubs appoint in their general assembly meetings those of their members who participate with voting right in the general assembly of the Applicant.
II) Local clubs: Within a regional club, a minimum of 30 ordinary ADAC members can decide to establish a local club. The local clubs are independent legal entities and have to be approved by the competent regional club and by ADAC itself. In order to be affiliated with the competent regional club and with ADAC, each local club is under the duty to accept and incorporate in its statutes certain minimum provisions that have previously been laid down by ADAC.
III) The umbrella entity “ADAC e.V.”, comprising the not-for-profit ADAC e.V. and the subsidiaries which pursue some form of economic activities to the benefit of the ADAC community;
c) Governance structure:
I) General assembly: consists of the representatives delegated by the regional clubs and of the members of the administrative board and the management board. The general assembly appoints inter alia the management board and is the highest organ of ADAC.
II) Administrative board: consists of the members of the management board and of the chairmen of the regional clubs. The administrative board lays down the minimum provisions that regional and local clubs affiliated with ADAC have to incorporate into their statutes and performs additional tasks as provided for in the ADAC statutes.
III) Management board: appointed by the general assembly, represents and is in charge of the general management of ADAC.
Both the organizational and the governance structure of the Applicant demonstrate that it is a clearly organized organization.
3) The ADAC has been established on 24 May 1903 in Stuttgart in the form of a registered association (eingetragener Verein). In the beginning, its main focus lie on motorcyclists but quite quickly evolved to encompass all motorists. After 10 years of operation, ADAC already had some 20.000 members and became the largest automobile club in Germany. Dissolved for political reasons by order of the authorities before the Second World War, the ADAC had to be legally re-established in 1946, but it always carried on its tradition and has now a successful history of more than 100 years of operation. The success and acceptance of ADAC is particularly highlighted by the steadily growing number of its members. Nowadays, ADAC is broadly regarded in Germany as an organization one can trustfully rely on in case of a breakdown, accident or emergency while traveling. In addition, ADAC has earned a reputation as an advocate of consumer protection issues. More than 18 million members rely on and trust ADAC, making it by far the largest automobile club in Europe.
Considering the above, the Applicant clearly is, or at least represents, the interests of a pre-existing community that has originated in 1903.
The focus of the Applicant has always been on its members and their needs in connection with mobility. The Applicant’s most prominent services and products encompass the following:
a) roadside assistance
b) air rescue
c) traffic information
d) travel information and services
e) advocacy of the interests of motorists etc.
f) legal advice with regard to various topics related to motor vehicles, tourism and travel
g) general advice to members with regard to any kind of mobility related issues (testing, maintenance and purchase of motor vehicles, tourism⁄travel, consumer protection etc.)
h) advocacy of the interests of motorists
i) rebate programs for ADAC members (“Show your Card”)
j) various products and services offered by ADAC subsidiaries (books, insurances, financial products, car rental, road safety training etc.).
In addition, the Applicant organizes motorsports events (for automobiles, go-karts, motorbikes, vintage cars etc.), publishes a monthly magazine for its members and founded various trusts which support the victims of road traffic accidents, engage in road safety education and sponsor talented racing driver. Finally, various corporations associated with the Applicant and its local clubs offer a broad variety of activities for vintage car aficionados and owners of a certain make of car, e.g. rallies, region tours and visits of museums in- and outside Germany. It would be very difficult to provide an exhausting list of activities that the Applicant and its members and member organizations have offered in the decades since the establishment of the Applicant and that they still offer.
All these activities as well as the membership card issued by the Applicant, the members’ magazine published every month and the stickers with the ADAC logo which are usually affixed to the motor vehicles of the members create a sense of community between the ADAC members.
4) Currently, ADAC has some 18 million members, making it the largest automobile club in Europe, ranking worldwide second only to the American Automobile Association. ADAC has its roots in Germany, and its main focus of activities is still on Germany but it is open to members from all over the world and it also offers – by way of co-operation agreements with local automobile clubs – certain services outside Germany.
The size of this community is therefore considerable, and there are no current or future plans to wind down or terminate its activities. Quite to the contrary, the number of members is growing every year, and new products and services are being made available to ADAC members.