.om terms&conditions

Domain Name Regulation in the Sultanate of Oman 

Supervision by Oman Network Information Center (OMnic)

This document outlines the regulation codes for registering domain names under the .OM Top-Level Domain.

1 GENERAL

1-1 OMnic administers the name space for the Sultanate of Oman top-level domain (OM), under which a number of second-level domains exist.
1-2 The OM domain hierarchy is based on general category of organizations. The following are their definitions:

COM.OM: Commercial Company, trading company, registered at the Ministry of Commerce and Industry of the Sultanate of Oman

CO.OM: Commercial Company, trading company, registered at the Ministry of Commerce and Industry of the sultanate of Oman
EDU.OM: Educational institutions, e.g., universities and colleges, registered at the Ministry of Higher Education of the Sultanate of Oman.

AC.OM: Academic Organization (e.g. university, college), registered at the Ministry of Higher Education of the Sultanate of Oman.

SCH.OM: elementary schools, secondary schools, and high schools with valid licenses from Ministry of Education.

GOV.OM: Government Departments and Ministries of the Sultanate of Oman

NET.OM: The NET.OM domain is provided as an alternative to registering in the .net domain. This domain is intended to hold only the computers of network providers that are the NIC and NOC computers, the administrative computers, and the network node computers, registered at the Ministry of Transportation and communications or registered at Oman Telecommunication Company.

ORG.OM: Non-profit organizations, registered at Ministry of Social Affairs, Labour and Vocational Training.   

MIL.OM: The MIL.OM domain is used by all Ministry of Defense establishments.

MUSEUM.OM: for Museums

BIZ.OM: Commercial Company, trading company, registered at the Ministry of Commerce and Industry of the Sultanate of Oman

PRO.OM:  for Professionals, and Professionals Association. 

MED.OM: Hospitals and medical clinics with valid licenses from Ministry of Health.

1-3 OMnic registers domain names on first come, first served basis.
1-4 In addition to first come first served approach (registering under com.om or co.om) OMnic will continue to require that a domain name be an obvious derivation of the official name of the Applicant, one of its registered trademarks, or represents one of its activities. It can only be one of the following forms: English translation, transliteration, or abbreviation of the Applicant name, trademark, or activity description.

1-5 If the requirements in statement 1-4 can not be met by the Applicant and the Applicant still wants to register the requested name, the Applicant must certify that, to the best of his knowledge, the requested domain name does not infringe upon the right of any third party in any jurisdiction with respect to trademark, service mark, trade name, or any other intellectual property right. Otherwise, the Applicant runs the risk of having to relinquish the name to the proper owner when needed. It is also the Applicant’s responsibility to secure a trade name or such to protect his right to the chosen name.

2 REQUIREMENTS

2-1 A new Applicant should register a domain name by on line registration process at the following location:  Registrations.

2-2 The Applicant should submit by Postal mail a letter requesting the domain name registration and it must be on an official letterhead and it is possible to submit his letter by hand.

2-3 For-profit entities requesting names under the "co.om", "com.om", "edu.om","ac.om" "sch.om", or " biz.om" domains should submit a copy of their legal documents (e.g., A signed and stamped Application Letter using company letter head, trade mark registration, Orginal and copy of the Commercial Registration, Orginal establishment's authorized Signiture and copy of it, trade mark reistration, ...)

2-4 For all others, a copy of any official documents showing the relationship between the proposed domain name and the name of the organization is required.

2-5 Domain name applications are kept in a pending state until required documents (e.g., registration letter and Commercial Registrations from Ministry of Commerce and Industry) are received from Applicant within two weeks from the reception date. If no such documents are submitted within this period, OMnic will send message to request the missing information or documents. If nothing is received within a week, OMnic will reject the request.

2-6 In addition to the above, registering a domain name requires at the time of application that Applicant should have arranged at least two operational domain name servers to the domain name in question. Such domain name servers may be arranged through third party providers (in case of without hosting). One of them is the primary name server and the others are secondary name servers. All need permanent IP connectivity to the Internet. Each domain name server must be capable of receiving queries for the domain name and responding there to.

3 APPLICANTS

3-1 One of the following should be true for an Applicant requesting domain name registration under .OM domain:
3-1-1 physically in Sultanate of Oman,
3-1-2 belongs to an entity registered in Sultanate of Oman, or
3-1-3 belongs to an entity that provides goods or services physically in Sultanate of Oman.

3-2 The Technical Contact for the domain name in question could reside anywhere; however the Administrative Contact should be physically resides in Sultanate of Oman and he has a stable place.

3-3 OMnic has neither the resources nor the legal obligation to screen requested domain names to determine if the use of a domain name by an Applicant may infringe upon the right(s) of a third party. Consequently, as an express condition of the grant of an Applicant's request to register a domain name, Applicant represents, agrees and warrants as follows:
3-3-1 Applicant's statements in the application are true and Applicant has the right to use the domain name as requested in the Application.
3-3-2 The use or registration of the domain name by Applicant does not interfere with or infringe upon the right of any third party in any jurisdiction with respect to trademark, service mark, trade-name, company name or any other intellectual property right.
3-3-3 Applicant certifies that, to the best of the Applicant’s knowledge the domain name is not being registered for any activities not permitted under the Sultanate of Oman law.
3-3-4 Applicant agrees to inform OMnic of any changes, amendments or corrections to the information related to the domain name.

3-3-5 Applicant agrees not to register domain names for the purpose of selling them later to other entities.

3-3-6 OMnic authorize to revoke all domains owned by the violating body immediately.

4 DOMAIN NAMES

4-1 CHARACTERISTIC
4-1-1 Domain name format:
4-1-1-1 A domain name is not case sensitive.
4-1-1-2 A domain name should be at least 2 and no more than 24 alphanumeric characters per name within the following character sets only: "A" - "Z", "0" - "9", and "-".
4-1-1-3 The first character should not be "-".
4-1-1-4 The following characters are specifically excluded "_" and "/".
4-1-2 registering a domain name does not confer any legal rights to that name.
4-1-3 Generic names (e.g., www, internet) and famous people will not be registered under any domain unless for authorized entities those officially represent the corresponding names.
4-1-4 Family names will not be registered under any of second level domains.
4-1-5 Domain names must not contain obscene words.

4-1-6 if the domain name violates the Omani traditional community, OMnic then will revoke that domain immediately.

4-2 DOMAIN NAME CONFLICTS
4-2-1 any disputes between parties over the rights to use a particular domain name are to be settled between the contending parties using normal legal methods. OMnic exempts itself from all responsibility for the verification of rights to a name. OMnic cannot act as arbiter of disputes arising out of this kind of conflict.
4-2-2 OMnic will not be liable for any interruption of business, or any indirect damages of any kind (including losses of profits) or otherwise.
4-2-3 Registration of a pending application for a disputed domain name will be suspended by OMnic in case of a conflict with another pending application or an already registered domain name until the conflicting registrants present a signed and written settlement of the conflict.
4-2-4 Acceptance of an application and registration of a domain name by OMnic does not endorse approval or support to submitted names of natural or legal identities, trade-names or trademarks.

4-3 APPLICATION REJECTIONS
4-3-1 OMnic will notify Applicants of acceptance, rejection or modification, by fax or email.
4-3-2 OMnic reserves the right to reject any domain name to be registered as it deems necessary and without mentioned .
4-3-3 Reasons for OMnic to reject domain name applications, other than format, may include:
4-3-3-1 Incomplete entries in the application form,
4-3-3-2 Lack of proper documents,
4-3-3-3 Applicant has no legal right to the requested Domain name,
4-3-3-4 Domain names which are identical with an already registered domain name, or

4-3-3-5 Domain names which are not identical with Omani traditional community.

4-4 MODIFYING REGISTRATION INFORMATION
4-4-1 Modifications are done only to Administration contact, Technical contact and server information.
4-4-2 Request to make any such modifications MUST come from the Technical/ Administrative Contacts with some additional measures taken to verify information for security reason.
4-4-3 the spelling of a domain name is not considered modification. If a domain name with different spelling is needed, a New Domain Registration Form for the new domain name must be submitted and a delete request for the old domain name also must be submitted in separate forms.

4-5 TRANSFERRING A DOMAIN NAME
4-5-1 Domain names are non-transferable once registered to an entity unless said entity is bought out or merges with another entity. If an entity is dissolved, the domain names owned by that entity will be deal located.
4-5-2 Registering domain names in the attempt to sell them later to other entities will result in all domains owned by the violating body to be revoked immediately.
4-5-3 the only way to transfer a domain name from one organization (Registrant/Applicant) to another organization (Registrant/Applicant) is done in two steps:
4-5-3-1 the current domain name holder sends a request to delete the domain name.
4-5-3-2 The new Applicant/Registrant for the domain name should submit a new Domain Registration Form to register the domain name. OMnic does not guarantee the availability of the domain name for the new Applicant. It will follow first come first served approach for registering this domain name.

4-6 DELETING A DOMAIN NAME
4-6-1 to delete an active registration of third-level domain names from the database, a written request should be sent to OMnic. The request MUST come from the Administrative Contact with some additional measures taken to verify information for security reasons.
4-6-2 Deleted entries of third-level domain names will become available for reuse by other applicants.

5 FEES

To register second top level domain .OM

 
 Without Hosting
 With Hosting
 
Registration (Annual)
 30/-
 10/-
 
Setup Fee
 5/-
 5/-
 
Monthly Rental
 N/A
 15/-
 
Web Storage
 N/A
 60 MB
 
Additional Charges
 N/A
 0.500 Baiza per 1 MB
 

6 DOMAIN CONTACTS

There are must be an administrative contact and a technical contact for each domain. Notice that the administrative contact must be physically resides in the sultanate of Oman.

6.1 DOMAIN ADMINISTRATIVE CONTACT:

The administrative contact is the person who should be able to answer questions about administrative issues of a domain, i.e. addresses of other persons in the domain, domain name, location, financial information, etc. NOTE - Administrative contact MUST be a person authorized by the organization/company applying for the domain name.

6.2 DOMAIN TECHNICAL CONTACT:

The domain technical contact is the person who is responsible for the   technical aspects of maintaining the domains name server and resolves software and database files. This person keeps the name server running and interacts with technical people in other domains to solve problems affecting his domain.

7 OM TLD CONTACTS

7.1 Administrative Contact:

              Name: SME Sales Department

              Email: khalil.ghatrifi@omantel.om

              Phone:+968-24632311

              Fax: +968-24487277

7.2 Technical Contact:

              Name: Informatics Services Team

              Email: service.team@omantel.om         

              Phone: +968-24631313

              Fax: +968-24695482

8 DISCLAIMERS

REGISTRANT/APPLICANT AGREES THAT OMnic WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY LOSS OF REGISTRATION AND USE OF APPLICANT/ 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 (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF OMnic HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.