gTLD	Full Legal Name	E-mail suffix	Detail
.tennis	Washington Team Tennis, LLC	washingtonkastles.com	View

For the .tennis registry, we believe it will be crucial to ensure that registrants and end-users are safeguarded from abusive registrations or malicious behavior. WTT will provide both a Trademark Claims and a Sunrise Service for the safeguarding of trademarked .tennis domain names as part of its registry operations.

WTT will also institute numerous operating rules and procedures in order to eliminate or minimize consumer vulnerabilities or other negative consequences which may be imposed upon consumers, registrants, IP rightsholders and other .tennis TLD registry stakeholders.

If warranted, WTT may take down any .tennis domains verified to be harboring and⁄or supporting online threats to the .tennis registry and the broader internet community of users. This action shuts down all activities associated with the domain name, including all websites. Our philosophy in administering this procedure is that removing threats to the consumer outweighs any potential damage to the registrar⁄registrant relationship. WTT will commit to keeping its registrars updated of any malicious activity within the .tennis TLD through weekly or monthly reporting. We will also leverage our back-end provider’s existing relationships with international law enforcement agencies as necessary and in support of these procedures.

Procedures for Resolving Multiple Requests for Top Level Names

Procedures for resolving requests and limiting unqualified registrations of domain names will be implemented in the Sunrise will ensure adequate protection for all trademarks and intellectual property stakeholders. WTT will also implement safeguards to ensure protection of first level geographic names. Other reserved names for which it is envisioned that multiple applications may be requested shall be sold in conjunction with third-party domain name auction services or brokers.

All policies and procedures as described herein with respect to reserved names have been developed in accordance with the ICANN New gTLD Registry Agreement and specifically Provision 2.6 as it is currently published and available.


Registry Pricing Policies

Wholesale Price Stability
With respect to cost benefits for registrants, WTT intends to maintain its introductory wholesale pricing model for registrars for the first three (3) years of registry operations. By providing a predictable wholesale price, we believe this will simplify efforts among registrars to facilitate and achieve end-customer (registrant) adoption at levels which have been forecasted for the .tennis registry.

Bulk registrations above a reasonable number of .tennis domain names from one registrant will be eligible for such discounting incentives through the coordination of our registrar network. Registrants will be offered the option to obtain initial domain name registrations for periods of one to ten years at the discretion of the registrar, but no greater than ten years.


Contractual Commitments
Pursuant to provision 2.10 as contained in the current ICANN New gTLD Registry Agreement, WTT will make several contractual commitments to registrants regarding the magnitude of price escalation. We will provide ICANN and each ICANN accredited registrar that has executed the registry-registrar agreement for the .tennis TLD advance written notice of any price increase of no less than thirty (30) calendar days. With respect to renewal of domain name registrations, WTT shall provide ICANN and each ICANN accredited registrar that has executed the registry-registrar agreement for the .tennis TLD advance written notice of any price increase, including as a result of the elimination of any refunds, rebates, discounts, product tying, Qualified Marketing Programs or other programs (which had the effect of reducing the price charged to registrars) of no less than one hundred eighty (180) calendar days.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, with respect to renewal of domain name registrations, WTT will provide at least thirty (30) calendar days notice of any price increase if the resulting price is less than or equal to (A) for the period beginning on the Effective Date and ending twelve (12) months following the Effective Date, the initial price charged for registrations in the .tennis TLD, or (B) for subsequent periods, a price for which WTT provided a notice within the twelve (12) month period preceding the effective date of the proposed price increase.

WTT shall offer registrars the option to obtain domain name registration renewals at the current price (i.e. the price in place prior to any noticed increase) for periods of one to ten years at the discretion of the registrar, but no greater than ten years. In addition, WTT will maintain uniform pricing for renewals of domain name registrations, for which the price for each domain registration renewal must be identical to the price of all other domain name registration renewals in place at the time of such renewal. Such price must take into account universal application of any refunds, rebates, discounts, product tying or other programs in place at the time of renewal.

WTT will make available to registrars Qualified Marketing Programs in which discounted renewal pricing will be offered for up to one hundred eighty (180) calendar days. All ICANN accredited registrars for the .tennis TLD will be provided the same opportunity to qualify for such discounted Renewal Pricing. These programs will not to exclude any particular class or classes of registrations or increase the renewal price of any particular classes of registrations.

For complete transparency, WTT will provide public query-based DNS lookup service for the TLD at its sole expense.

gTLD	Full Legal Name	E-mail suffix	Detail
.book	DotBook, LLC	gmail.com	View

The DotBook registryʹs mission is to establish .book as the most preferred top level domain for global book industry stakeholders and the book consumers that purchase from them. To ensure success for all participants, it is vital that publisher and author registrants be safeguarded from abusive registrations that might be used to promote unauthorized access to copyrighted text and image based works legally assigned to rightsholders. DotBook will provide both a Trademark Claims and a Sunrise Service for the safeguarding of trademarks and non-trademarked ʺbook titleʺ domains as part of its registry operations.

The goal of DotBookʹs sunrise period is to ensure that all book stakeholders are able to successfully leverage the brand recognition and value established from their works in the context of new ʺtitleʺ .book domain assignments, if they choose to do so. We recognize that trademarks are an important business asset for book industry stakeholders and as such, we will be implementing a pre-launch Rights Protection Mechanism (RPM) that will involve a phased sunrise period to fully support the registration needs of book industry stakeholders and their trademarked brands. But non-trademarked titles will also receive special outreach.

This approach to protecting both trademarked and non-trademarked names is necessitated by the fact that many of the most recognizable ʺbrandsʺ in book publishing are the actual titles of books, which for the most part are not subject to trademark protection. Moreover, .book title domains mean that publishers donʹt have to compete with movie producers for URLs in instances where books are converted into films. Numerous titles that represent common words and phrases that are already taken in the existing TLDs such as .com can be accommodated with greater clarity in a .book domain.

Publisher and authors have a tremendous amount of goodwill attached to certain titles that cannot be formally assigned trademark protection. But consumer trust and full stakeholder adoption will be enhanced if consumers can rely on the fact that when they visit a .book domain to purchase a particular title, that seller has the legal distribution rights. We trust such extra community-oriented measures will greatly reduce the risk of title domains being registered by applicants that do not have the rights to distribute or sell the book, including any portion of its content.

The Sunrise period will be in effect for up to two years, with different phases running both concurrently and in succession. All applicants arriving within the timeframe of a given phase will be considered to have arrived at the same time. The longer timeframe is being implemented in support of both authors and publishers. Ultimately, our objective is to allocate desirable terms such as title names, semantic subject terms and trademarks fairly and appropriately between eligible claimants from across jurisdictions and to avoid disputes wherever possible.


Minimizing Consumer Vulnerabilities

For the .book TLD, DotBook will institute numerous operating rules and procedures in order to eliminate or minimize consumer vulnerabilities or other negative consequences which may be imposed upon consumers, registrants, IP rightsholders and other .book TLD registry stakeholders.

DotBook intends to utilize our back-end registry service provider’s Threat Mitigation Services as part of the .book registry’s standard operating procedures. These will ensure that DotBook can proactively identify, detect, catalog, and disrupt any malicious activity within the .book TLD which threaten end-user safety or security. Additionally, these measures will importantly combat the potential brand damaging effects of phishing, malware distribution, exploit hosting, and botnets that exploit registrants and rightsholders.

If warranted, DotBook may take down any .book domains verified to be harboring and⁄or supporting online threats to the .book registry and the broader internet community of users. This action shuts down all activities associated with the domain name, including all websites. Our philosophy in administering this procedure is that removing threats to the consumer outweighs any potential damage to the registrar⁄registrant relationship. DotBook will commit to keeping its registrars updated of any malicious activity within the .book TLD through weekly or monthly reporting. We will also leverage our back-end provider’s existing relationships with international law enforcement agencies as necessary and in support of these procedures.


Procedures for Resolving Multiple Requests for Top Level Names

Procedures for resolving requests and limiting unqualified registrations of titles will be implemented in the Sunrise period, and are intended to accomplish the following objectives:

• To ensure trademark protection for all trademarks across all book industry stakeholders.
• To assign ʺbook titleʺ domains to the current registered electronic rights holder if the rights holder submits an application in the sunrise period and can provide verification of their IP rights.
• To assign book title domains to works without a verifiable electronic rights holder on a first-come, first-serve basis to either the publisher or the author, or through an auction process if applications are submitted from both parties in the same sunrise phase of the sunrise period.
• To assign title domains for titles common to more than one legitimate party (author or publisher) in an auction process if the applications are submitted in the same sunrise phase, or on a first-come, first-serve basis if only one legitimate party submits an application in the sunrise period.
• To assign title and author domains for public domain works in an auction process if more than one publisher who has previously published the work submits an application in the same sunrise phase, or on a first-come, first-serve basis if only one publisher submits an application during the sunrise period.
• To ensure protection of first level geographic names.
• To avoid legal disputes related to multiple claims on single titles and unqualified registrations.

Other reserved names for which it is envisioned that multiple applications may be requested shall be sold in conjunction with third-party domain name auction services, brokers or other commercial services providers as authorized by DotBook at its own discretion. All policies and procedures as described herein with respect to reserved names have been developed in accordance with the ICANN New gTLD Registry Agreement and specifically Provision 2.6 as it is currently published and available.


Registry Pricing Policies

Wholesale Price Stability
With respect to cost benefits for registrants, DotBook intends to maintain its introductory wholesale pricing model for registrars for the first three (3) years of registry operations. By providing a predictable wholesale price, we believe this will simplify efforts among registrars to facilitate and achieve end-customer (registrant) adoption at levels which have been forecasted for the .book registry.

Price stability will be particularly meaningful to publisher, self-publisher and author rightsholders that we have identified for .book. As such, even as a matter of making “defensive registration decisions” we felt it would be important to provide some level of predictability for an initial three-year period, which would avoid concerns for pricing as a barrier to .book’s early-stage market adoption. DotBook anticipates coordinating pricing incentives for registrations of titles and bulk registrations from those with larger numbers of names to register. Bulk registrations above a reasonable number of .book domain names from one registrant will be eligible for such discounting incentives through the coordination of our registrar network. Registrants will be offered the option to obtain initial domain name registrations for periods of one to ten years at the discretion of the registrar, but no greater than ten years.

Contractual Commitments

Pursuant to provision 2.10 as contained in the current ICANN New gTLD Registry Agreement, DotBook will make several contractual commitments to registrants regarding the magnitude of price escalation. We will provide ICANN and each ICANN accredited registrar that has executed the registry-registrar agreement for the .book TLD advance written notice of any price increase of no less than thirty (30) calendar days. With respect to renewal of domain name registrations, DotBook shall provide ICANN and each ICANN accredited registrar that has executed the registry-registrar agreement for the .book TLD advance written notice of any price increase, including as a result of the elimination of any refunds, rebates, discounts, product tying, Qualified Marketing Programs or other programs (which had the effect of reducing the price charged to registrars) of no less than one hundred eighty (180) calendar days.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, with respect to renewal of domain name registrations, DotBook will provide at least thirty (30) calendar days notice of any price increase if the resulting price is less than or equal to (A) for the period beginning on the Effective Date and ending twelve (12) months following the Effective Date, the initial price charged for registrations in the .book TLD, or (B) for subsequent periods, a price for which DotBook provided a notice within the twelve (12) month period preceding the effective date of the proposed price increase.

DotBook shall offer registrars the option to obtain domain name registration renewals at the current price (i.e. the price in place prior to any noticed increase) for periods of one to ten years at the discretion of the registrar, but no greater than ten years. In addition, DotBook will maintain uniform pricing for renewals of domain name registrations, for which the price for each domain registration renewal must be identical to the price of all other domain name registration renewals in place at the time of such renewal. Such price must take into account universal application of any refunds, rebates, discounts, product tying or other programs in place at the time of renewal.

DotBook will make available to registrars Qualified Marketing Programs in which discounted renewal pricing will be offered for up to one hundred eighty (180) calendar days. All ICANN accredited registrars for the .book TLD will be provided the same opportunity to qualify for such discounted Renewal Pricing. These programs will not to exclude any particular class or classes of registrations or increase the renewal price of any particular classes of registrations.

For complete transparency, DotBook will provide public query-based DNS lookup service for the TLD at its sole expense.