TLD Registration Procedure

When you decide to register a TLD, the following steps are taken:

1. Pending on Acceptance
   TLD.NAME will accept all serious TLD Requests including TLD names that are the
   similar to brand names, names of corporations or registered trade marks as long as it belongs to the registrant and not to someone else. Upon acceptance an Invoice for the registration fee will be send to you.
   
   
2. Pending on Payment
   TLD.NAME Sales is waiting to receive your registration fee. If your TLD Registration fee has been received within 30 days after your TLD request, your TLD will be submitted to the INAIC Council. Any fees that are received after 30 days will be returned.
   
   
3. Pending on Approval
   The INAIC Council is charged with the approval of creation of new TLDs. The INAIC
   Council shall not deny any TLD requests except for TLDs that might directly or indirectly cause conflicts in the future. If a TLD request is denied, 100% of the
   registration fee will be refunded.
   
   
4. Pending on Creation
   After approval Public-Root will create your TLD and add it to all public Root Servers in the world. This is a technical procedure and might take up to 8 days.
   
   
5. Registered
   Your TLD has been successfully created and added to the Inclusive Name Space.
   All public DNS Servers in the world resolve your new TLD. You are the exclusive
   registrant of an entire TLD including all the domain names under it. Now you are
   able to use your TLD and start registering domain names etc. etc. You dictate the
   policies and conditions for domain names under your TLD.
   
   
6. Renewal
   You register your TLD for a period of one year. After this your you can register the TLD
   for another year. The renewal fee for the second year (or each year after that) is
   $250 only.