.ME Sunrise Rules (Application Closed)

What are the Sunrise requirements and restrictions?

Registrars and registrants who participate in the Sunrise are expected to become intimately familiar with the Sunrise eligibility criteria. Especially note Section 4 (and its footnotes) of the Sunrise Policy. It describes what trademarks are eligible, and how they can be represented in second-level domain names.

Sunrise Challenge Policy

An overview of the basic eligibility rules:

1. At the time of your registration of the Domain Name, a current (non-expired) trademark or service mark must be registered in your name; and
2. The Domain Name must be identical to the textual or word elements of the trademark or service mark registration on which the registration of your Domain Name is based, and
3. The trademark or service mark registration on which the registration of your Domain Name is based must be of national effect, and
4. The trademark or service mark on which the registration of your Domain Name was based must have been registered or applied for prior to 28 June 2006 with the trademark authority with which the mark is registered.

Please be reminded that you must submit accurate data, and that registrant data needs to reflect the trademark owner. It is registry policy that registrations by proxy, or employing proxy registration contact data, are NOT allowed during the Sunrise Period or the Landrush period.

How will Sunrise names be awarded?

In the Sunrise periods, different parties may submit applications for the same domain name. (In other words, it is not a first-come-first-served process.)

At the end of the Sunrise, the applications will be examined. If there is only one application for a domain name, the domain name will be awarded to that applicant. If two or more parties apply for a domain name, those parties will enter an auction for the domain name. The domain name will be allocated to the auction winner.

Please view the Auction Rules & Policies pdf file below for full details about Auctions.

Applications from the Montenegrin Sunrise and the General Sunrise will be pooled together. If an applicant from the Montenegrin Sunrise and the General Sunrise both apply for the same domain name, they will compete against each other in the auction.

What are the registration terms for domains registered during the Sunrise period?

Sunrise domains may be registered for a registration term of a minimum of five (5) years, and up to a maximum of ten (10) years.

How and when will Sunrise billing take place?

If a name was auctioned, the auctioneer will collect the auction’s realized price from the auction winner.

The name will be allocated after the auctioneer has confirmed payment from the auction winner. IP Mirror will ONLY bill the sunrise domain registration fees. Applicants should therefore know that if a name is auctioned, they will be billed for the auction price in addition to the basic registration.

Will the .ME Registry review Sunrise applications?

The registry will engage the services of a trusted third party to conduct verifications of the Sunrise applications to identify potential non-compliant applications. The registry may ask for applicant to further provide proof of his or her qualifying trademark rights. Failure to provide this documentation in a timely fashion will result in the application being rejected. Notwithstanding this audit process, any third party that still believes a successful Sunrise applicant is in non-compliance will have opportunity to challenge that domain name through the Sunrise Challenge process.

What is the Sunrise Challenge process?

The registry is using World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to provide Sunrise Challenge dispute resolution services in connection with .ME Sunrise. The .ME Sunrise Challenge process will be modeled after the successful .MOBI Sunrise process which WIPO also administered. The ME registry and WIPO will endeavor to have the .ME Sunrise documents finalized in the near future. Challenges may be filed with WIPO during the Sunrise Challenge Period, which begins on Monday, 9 June 2008, and ends on Monday, 7 July 2008.

Please click the Sunrise Challenge Policy & Sunrise Challenge Rules pdf file below for more details.

When can I start using a domain registered during the Sunrise Period?

Names registered during the Sunrise Period will be locked at the time of application for verification and challenge purposes. While locked they cannot be updated or transferred. They will be unlocked after the Sunrise Challenge period ends on 7 July 2008; the exact date of the unlocking will be announced by the .ME Registry. Names challenged according to Sunrise Challenge procedures will remain locked for dispute resolution.

The only exceptions are for transfers required as a result of a successful Sunrise Challenge or an order from a court of competent jurisdiction.

Dispute Policy

Sunrise domains are subject to Sunrise Challenge (see above). Disputes regarding domains registered in Landrush and later will be handled according to the Uniform Dispute Resolution Process (UDRP).

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