{"id":550893,"date":"2006-11-22T14:24:32","date_gmt":"2006-11-22T14:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/550893-new-internet-domain-name-rules-published.html"},"modified":"2006-11-22T14:24:32","modified_gmt":"2006-11-22T14:24:32","slug":"new-internet-domain-name-rules-published","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/550893-new-internet-domain-name-rules-published.html","title":{"rendered":"New internet domain name rules published"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">&quot;The Alternative Dispute Resolution Regulations provide guidelines, rules and procedures for the resolution of domain name disputes under the .za domain, and sets out fee structures for the adjudication of disputes,&quot; said a government statement. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&quot;The regulations also provide for the accreditation of domain name dispute resolution service providers by the .za Domain Name Authority (.zaDNA).&quot; <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Areas covered by the regulations included intellectual property rights, commercial, cultural, linguistic, religious and personal rights in relation to domain names, protected under South African law. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&quot;The regulations allow a complainant to request dispute resolution where the complainant can prove that he or she has rights to a name or mark that is identical or similar to a domain name that was registered by someone else,&quot; the statement read. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&quot;It furthermore allows dispute resolution over domain names that constitute abusive or offensive registrations,&quot; the department said. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">A lack of regulation has been cited as hampering e-commerce, and leaving aggrieved parties with no alternative but to litigate in court at a high cost to get a domain name back. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The regulations were published in the Government Gazette on Wednesday, and can also be viewed on the department&#8217;s www.doc.gov.za website.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=59214\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Discuss this article\u00a0<\/a> <\/font><\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New regulations for settling disputes over internet domain names that fall under the .za domain were published for public comment on Wednesday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-550893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550893"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}