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Obtaining an Internet Domain Name within BG

1. Introduction

The top-level Internet domain name for Bulgaria is BG. Similar to other top-level domains, the BG domain is administered by a naming authority. For the BG domain, this function is performed by Digital Systems Ltd.
The hostmaster team of Digital Systems Ltd. has been taking care of this activity since 1991. The team has developed terms and conditions and procedures based on Internet standards, on discussions with service providers and network experts from Bulgaria and abroad, and on accummulated experience, as well.
The policies and procedures are described here in order to provide a point of reference for applicants, Internet Service Providers and for the hostmaster team itself, so that each application for registration of a domain name within BG can be handled predictably, consistently and without any delay due to misunderstanding.

The sections of this document are arranged as follows.

  1. Introduction (this section)
  2. Who can register an Internet domain name within .bg?
  3. Necessary documents for the registration of a new Internet domain name?
  4. Requirements for the domain name:
    - validity
    - appropriacy
    - reserved names
    - accessability
    - good service
  5. Registration procedure of a new domain name within .bg
  6. Terms for processing of the applications and the registration of the new name
  7. Refusal of registration
  8. Updating of registration
  9. Termination of registration
  10. Recommendations
  11. Liability and indemnity
  12. Prices and payment

2. Who can register an Internet domain name within .bg?

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2.1. People, holders of a court registration in Bulgaria or an act for issuing from a Bulgarian state body; subjects, created according to an agreement between Bulgaria and other countries; companies and organizations, registered abroad that have registered branches or have commercial representatives in Bulgaria.
2.2. Private active people, citizens of Republic of Bulgaria.
2.3. Companies and organizations, registered abroad that have authorized a third party to register a name within the .bg domain. The person authorized must meet the requirements according to 2.1 or 2.2.

3. Necessary documents for registering a new Internet domain name.

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3.1. The applicats from group 2.1. present the following documents:
- Application for a registration of a domain name within .bg, filled in carefully and accurately, signed and stamped from the applicant (in the original).
- A copy of the document, certifying the actual status of the applicant (court decision, valid court certificate, etc.), signed from the representative that it complies with the original. In this (these) document(s) the representative must be clearly pointed out.
- If the person who has signed the application, is authorized - notary stamped authorization is required. (original)
- If the required name is a trade mark of the applicant - a copy of the document, certifying that the applicant is the holder of this trade mark, stamped from the representative that it is identical with the original.
- If the required name is a trade mark of a third party - a copy of the document, certifying that the third party possesses the trade mark, signed by the representative of the applicant that it is identical with the original and a notary stamped document for giving the right of using the trade mark (original).
- If the required name is not registered in the issue of the National Library - a copy of the document for acquiring an ISSN or ISBN, signed by the representative of the applicant, that it is identical with the original.
3.2. The applicats from group 2.2. present the following documents:
- An application for registering a domain name within the .bg top-level domain, filled in carefully and correctly, signed form the applicant or the authorized person and notary signed (original);
- If the person who has signed the request is authorized - a notary signed authorization (original);
- If the requested name is a trademark of the applicant - a copy of the document, certifying that the applicant possesses this trademark, notary signed (original);
- If the requested name belongs to a third party - a copy of the document, certifying that the third party possesses the trademark, signed by him that it is identical with the original and a notary signed document for giving the right to use the trademark. (original);
- If the requested name is a name registered in the National Library Issue - a copy of the document for acquiring the ISSN or ISBN, signed by the applicant that it is identical with the original.
3.3. The applicats from group 2.3. present the following documents:
- An application form for registration of a doamin name within .bg, filled in carefully and correctly, signed by the authorized by the applicant person, notary signed. (original);
- Notary signed authorization (original) of the authorized person .
- If the requested name is a trademark of a foreign company - a copy of the document, certifying that the foreign company possesses this trademark and that it is valid on the territory of The Republic of Bulgaria, signed by the authorized from the applicant person that it is identical with the original.
- If the requested name is a registered issue - a copy of the document for acquiring the ISSN or ISBN, signed by the authorized by the applicant person that it is identical with the original.
The application for the requested name is accompanied with a declaration that the applicant agrees with the terms and conditions for taking the responsibilities, described in Section 11 of this document.
The contact people in the application must be the authorized people from the applicant, for performing the correspondent activities:
- A person for administrative contacts: to define the naming policy of the objects in the hierrarchy of the given name, to inform about the change of the registered attributes of the given name, including the people for technical contacts, people for financial contacts, nameservers. The person for administrative contacts must have authorization to represent the applicant.
- People for technical contacts: to be obliged for the technical functioning of the nameservers.

4. Requirements

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At the time of registration, the proposed domain name must be both valid and appropriate. Then and later, the domain must be accessible and well managed, as to avoid unnecessary inconvenience to other network users.These requirements are specified in detail in the section below.

Validity:
4.1. The following characters are allowed to be used in the domain name:
- the letters of the Roman alphabet (ASCII), regardless whether they are capital or small letters (A-Z, a-z);
- the numbers (0-9);
- the hyphen (-).
The first and the last character of the name must be either a letter or a number. It is recommended that the first character is a letter.
4.2. The domain name must consists at least of three characters. When the name or its popular abbreviation consists of two characters, the Register of Domain Names within .bg recommends the insertion of a hyphen (-) between the characters.
4.3. The domain name must be distinct from any of the recognized existing names of the top-level domain names (ARPA, COM, EDU, GOV, MIL, NET, ORG, INT,....)

Appropriacy:
The names can be formed by:
4.4. The name of the applicant;
4.5. The name of a registered trade mark of the applicant;
4.6. Registered name of an edition (ISSN, ISBN)
The name formed must correspond with:
4.7. The full name;
4.8. Abbreviation, formed by one or several of the words, forming the full name, and the first letters of the rest of the words (as their sequence is kept);
4.9. Abbreviation, formed from the first characters of the words, forming the full name;
4.10. When the name is a compound, bewteen the separate words or the initial characters of the words, which form he name, a hyphen (-) can be put;
4.11. When a name cannot be formed according to one of the principles pointed out because it has been already reserved, after the desired combination of characters (according to item 4.7., 4.8., 4.9. or item 4.10.) a numeric character can be put, separated or not by a hyphen (-);
4.12. When there is the word Bulgaria in the name, it can be dropped or replaced by the characters bg;
4.13. Some general words like:"ltd", "plc", "inc", "co", "international' (or their Bulgarian equivalents) can be dropped from the full name.

Reserved names:
4.14. The names of towns and villages are reserved for the municipalities and the regions.
4.15. When the requested name has already been used or there is a probability that it can be requested from another applicant with a wider popularity, another name must be chosen.. For example, names like ibm.bg or internet.bg are reserved due to that requirement.
4.16. In the .bg Domain Name Register, reserved are the names: bgnic.bg, bg-nic.bg, nic.bg, register.bg, nicbg.bg, nic-bg.bg, registry.bg, domain.bg, domain-registry.bg
4.17. When the requested name can, according to the opinion of the .bg Domain Name Register, lead to confusion or misunderstanding, the applicant must chose another name.

Accessability:
4.18. In the request, there must be identified at least one Internet host where the mail for the domain can be routed. It is neessary, that it is agreed beforehand with the server administrator. The host must be able to handle mail for the domain.
4.19. The domain must provide a point of contacts for electronic mail where requests for information may be addressed. The standard address for this point of contact is: postmaster@domain.bg
4.20. In the request, here must be pointed out at least one secondary nameserver, in addition to the primary nameserver. It is necessary to provide access to the primary nameserver for .bg (ns.digsys.bg, IP address 192.92.129.1) to the domain primary nameserver. Apart from that, the agreement of the manager of each nameserver to provide name service for the proposed domain must be obtained in advance.

Good service:
4.21. The outgoing mail from the sub-domain must meet the requirements of RFC 822. In particular, the header of the messages must not contain addresses, consisting only of a username ("local part" according to the RFC 822 terminology) or a partially qualified domain name.

5. Registraion Procedure of a New Domain Name within .bg

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All the necessary documents for registration of an Internet domain name within .bg, can be deposited in the nearest office of Digial Systems Ltd. or they can be sent by regular mail to:
 
    Naming Authority for the BG Internet Domain 
    Digital Systems Ltd. 
    6 Neofit Bozveli Str. 
    Varna 9000 
Questions, regarding registration may be sent to the above mentioned address or via e-mail:
hostmaster@digsys.bg, or by phone or by fax.
The naming authority for .bg deals only with the registration of primary sub-domains of the top-level domain .bg. Registration of second- or lower-level sub-domain registration is the responsibility of the administrative contact person for the primary sub-domain.

6. Terms of Processing the Requests and Domain Name Registration

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6.1. The Register of Domain Names within .bg checks the validity of the deposited by the applicant documents within three working days after receiving the request.
6.2. If the documents are in order, the applicant receives a pro-forma invoice and within ten working days, the client is obliged to pay the initial fee and the domain name support fee for the first year within 10 working days and to inform the Register.
6.3. In case, there is something wrong with the documents, the applicant is informed about that (within 3 working days from the receiving of the documents) with appropriate scrips in the database of the Register (http://www.digsys.bg/bg-nic/bg_tld_base_eng.html) or via e-mail, telephone, fax or in written form.
6.4. Within 30 working days, the applicant is obliged to correct the wrong information in the request. If after that term, the request still does not meet the requirements for registration, the Register considers that the applicant refuses that name and cancels the registration procedure.
6.5. The Register adds the necessary scrips in primary name server within .bg and the applicant has the opportunity for usage and administering of that name in the Internet within 5 working days after receiving the means according to item 12 from the present rules.

7. Refusal of Registration

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The request for Internet domain name registration can be refused because of the following reasons:
7.1. Incomplete set of documents (see Section 3 above);
7.2. Not meeting the requirements (see Section 4 above);

8. Change of Registration:

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8.1. The applicant can state his wish for electronic updating of registration of the name of nameserver. This wish is declared in the request for domain name registration within .bg. In this case, it can do this either on their own, using the e-mail address of the people for administrative or for technical contacts, or to state via regular mail in a written form about the desired changes.
8.2. A request for the change of the people for technical contacts is accepted in an electronic form (if an alectronic updating is negotiated) or in a written form from the person for administrative contacts or from the representative of the applicant.
8.3. The request for change of the person for administrative contacts can be made from the representative of the applicant only in a written form. (original)
8.4. When the request for updating is in a written form, it must be signed either by the person for administrative contacts or by the representative of the applicant.
8.5. The requests in a written form have priorities to the requests in an electronic form.
8.6. When the Register receives contradictory requests for updating and termination of the registration of one name, the Register decides which registration must be satisfies or both requests are not satisfied.

9. Termination of Registration

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9.1. When a domain ceases to meet any of the requirements for accessability and good services (see Section 4 above), the contact people will be notified and given he opportunity to correct the defiiency. If the due measures are not taken within one month, the Register reserves the right to terminate the registtration without further notice.
9.2. When the Register receives a written request for termination of the registration from the representative of the applicant, the registration is terminated within five working days.
9.3. The Registration is terminated in case of not paying the annual support fee on time. The Register is not obliged to keep domain names within .bg for applicants who have terminated their requests.

10. Recommendations

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10.1. When the applicant of a domain name changes the Internet Service Provider or starts to use the services of a new Internet Service Provider, the new ISP can not make the request for the change of the registration. The new ISP can inform the Register what is planned, but the Register cannot take actions before receiving a request from the person for administrative contacts or the representative of the applicant.
10.2. Mail routing and/ or IP connectivity must in most cases be arranged by the service provider. In such cases, it is recommended that the ISP helps for the submission of the request.
10.3. The naming of the sub-domains must be in consideration with the rules or addressing in the Internet, according to the instructions of RFC 819, RFC 821, RFC 822, RFC 920 and RFC 976, as well as with organization of the domain according to RFC 1034 and RFC 1035.
10.4. The name is registered for one applicant.
10.5. The applicant bears the overall legal responsibility for the action of the objects, registered in this domain, with respect to other organizations connected to the Internet.
10.6. The registration of a given Internet domain name does not endorse any legal rights concerning the name or any disputes connected with it must be done according to the normal law procedures (see RFC 1591).

11. Liability and Indemnity from the Register of Domain Names within .bg

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Digital Systems Company registers the Internet domain names neutrally and with good will, in service of applicants and Internet Service Providers, according to the following requirements:
11.1. The applicant bears the whole responsibility in front of third parties about he choice of name he/ she would like to register.
11.2. The applicant of he name will not keep Digital Systems, its specialists or agents, responsible for any losses, damages, responsibilities, wishes or expenses, resulting from wish or wishes from third parties connected with the management or he rights for using the name.
11.3. Digital Systems Company, its speialists or agents do not bear the responsibility for any losses or damages, caused by the applicant or he ISP, resulting from the activity or inactiviy of from Digital Systems, its specialists or agents during performing their duties as a Register of Internet domain names.
11.4. The Register of names within .bg is not responsible for the accuracy of the data, filled in by the applicant, when the applicant wants an electronic updating of the information that already exists in the Register for the applicant's name.

12. Prices and Payment

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12.1. Registration fee of a domain name: 50.00 USD
12.2. Annual support fee: 50.00 USD
12.3. All prices are without VAT.
12.4. The due sums are payed in leva, according to the exchange rate of the Bulgarian National Bank for USD, in the day of payment.


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