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General Policies

1. BACKGROUND

Domain names registry under ccTLD .EC (country code top level domain) is administered by NIC.EC, duly delegated by ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), through IANA (Internet Assigned Names and Numbers).

2. GLOSSARY AND DEFINITIONS

See Appendix A. Glossary and definitions are at the end of these policies.

3. SECOND LEVEL DOMAINS

Domain names .EC can be registered directly under .EC , as second level domains and also can be registered as third level domains under the predefined second level domains .com.ec, .info.ec, .net.ec, fin.ec, med.ec, pro.ec, org.ec, edu.ec, gov.ec, mil.ec. It is possible that other second level domains exist, that were used in the past and which they can be active, nevertheless they may not be available for new registration. Second level domain definitions are the following:

EC	Uso general.
COM.EC	Commercial use in general.
INFO.EC	Information in general.
NET.EC	Providers of Internet Services.
FIN.EC	Financial Institutions and Financial Services.
MED.EC	Medical , Health or Pharmaceutical Institutions and Organizations and related with Medicine subjects.
PRO.EC	For professionals in general like lawyers, architects, accountants, etc.
ORG.EC	Only for Non Profit Organizations and Institutions, or nongovernmental Organizations that are registered in Ecuador.
EDU.EC	Only for Educational Organizations or Institutions such as Schools, Universities, Colleges and Institutes registered in Ecuador.
GOV.EC	Only for use of the Government of the Republic of Ecuador and its governmental institutions.
MIL.EC	Only for use of the Armed Forces of Ecuador.

These classifications, second level domain, can be modified or increased by NIC.EC, changes that will be notified by NIC.EC through its web page with sufficient anticipation.

General conditions for registry will be determined by whatever established in these policies and in the Registry Agreement. There are some specific conditions for certain domains, which will be detailed in these Policies.

4. DOMAIN NAME STRUCTURE

Domain names structure will be subjected to the following conditions:

The only valid characters for a domain name are the alphabet letters (A-Z), the digits (0-9) and the dash (-). No accented letters are allowed, neither are "Ñ", nor underlined characters. Capital letters will not be distinguished from small or lower case letters. The first and the last character of the domain can not be the dash.

There will not be allowed two or more consecutive dashes. Minimum length is 3 characters and maximum length is 65 characters. However, even though maximum length is 65 characters, it is recommended a maximum length of 25 characters.

In no case a domain name will be registered when such name:

- Is formed by words or phrases that may turn offensive, harsh or that may affect moral or public order or that may go against Ecuadorian Law.

- Deals with official aspects or subjects without a proper authorization.

- Match with protocol names, applications and terminology of the Internet or domain name terminology , e.g. "http", "web", "www", "ftp", "telnet", "email", etc.

- Match identically and under the same level, with existing domain names within the database of NIC.EC.

- Match names restricted for registry, according to NIC.EC Policies.