Domain Name Dispute Resolution
Policy of TLD ".lv"
Policy Adopted: July 1, 2000
Domain name is a string of minimum 2 and maximum
64 characters. The permitted characters are all English letters (case insensitive),
numbers, and dash "-".
To follow the best practices, the dispute
resolution in ".lv" domain and its generic subdomains, except minor differences
listed below, is considered to be the same as Uniform
Domain Name Resolution Policy adopted by ICANN
for Top Level Domains ".com", ".net", ".org". Below differences follow
the current ICANN and IANA recommendations for ccTLDs
as described in RFC1591
and IANA TLD Delegation
Practices Document or ICP-1 as
well as the best practice from the other ccTLDs.
TLD ".lv" is a national TLD for Republic
of Latvia, therefore the applicants related to Latvia (e.g. located in
Latvia) will be given priority, although applications from anywhere else
will be processed in recognition of the truly global nature of the Internet.
Applicant may be a legal organization or a private person.
Full and short Names of organizations
and companies registered in the Enterprise
Registry of the Republic of Latvia, and Trade Marks registered in the
Patent
Office of the Republic of Latvia may be registered as domain names
only by their legal owners. Special Latvian characters should be replaced
by the nearest English character, when used in domain names.
It is the responsibility of
the Applicant to verify that the chosen domain name at the moment of registration
does not violate above regulation. Domain name registration may be cancelled
any time, if the evidence is received that this regulation was violated
at the moment of domain name registration. No fees are returned in this case.
The Applicant
will be invited to choose another domain name instead not
violating this regulation.
The applicant (?Registrant?) is responsible
for the selection of its own domain name (?Domain Name?) and is solely responsible for the name which it has registered and any disputes which may rise from it. The Registrant,
by completing and submitting its application, represents that the statements
in its application are true and that the registration of the selected Domain
Name, to the best of the Registrant?s knowledge, does not interfere with
or infringe upon the rights of any third party.
In order to reduce the possibility
of disputes after the domain name has been registered, Registry reserves the
right to refuse registration of a Domain Name or request additional proofs
during registration in the following cases:
- If the domain name is a Trade Mark, Service
Mark, or well known Organisation Name, or common abbreviation of that.
- If the domain name is a name of geographic
location or object. An exception regarding geographic location names are
local municipalities of Latvia, which are allowed to register their name
as a domain name (e.g. 'Dobeles pilsetas dome' may register domain dobele.lv).
- If the domain name is a person name.
- If the domain name is a well-known name
or common word, which is likely to be of interest to some other party.
- If the domain name is an offensive word
or expression.
All domain names rejected by the Registry
due to above reasons, in registration database are marked as "Reserved".
Reserved domain names normally will not be assigned to any other party.
In exceptional cases when Registry later decides to assign a previously Reserved domain name
to some party, all other parties previously interested in this domain name
are informed by e-mail about such decision and may submit additional evidence
to the Registry within 15 days.
If the decision of the Registry regarding
rejecting or assigning a Reserved domain name is contested, the final decision
will be pronounced by a person who is registered as an administrative contact
for the.lv domain in IANA database of
ccTLDs. For the period while Administrative-dispute-resolution
service (Administrative Panel reffered to in ICANN
Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy) for domain name
disputes is not established in Latvia, all disputes regarding already assigned
domain names are to be resolved in Court or Arbitration in Republic of
Latvia directly between the current owner of the domain name and the contesting
party without involvment of the Registry.
DISCLAIMER. APPLICANT AGREES THAT REGISTRY
WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY LOSS OF REGISTRATION AND USE OF REGISTRANT?S
DOMAIN NAME, OR FOR INTERRUPTION OF BUSINESS, OR ANY INDIRECT, SPECIAL,
INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OF ANY KIND (INCLUDING LOST PROFITS)
REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF ACTION WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE),
OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF REGISTRY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH
DAMAGES. IN NO EVENT SHALL REGISTRYS? MAXIMUM LIABILITY UNDER THESE POLICY
GUIDELINES EXCEED FIVE HUNDRED ($500.00) US DOLLARS.
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