new gTLDs Launches

Sunrise 2
Sunrise II is a priority registration phase for local government, public institutions and trademark holders whose marks are not registered or not eligible to be registered in the TMCH and marks that are registered in the TMCH but generate no valid labels. Holders of trademarks in non-ASCII scripts, regional collective marks and other rights holders are also eligible to apply during this phase.
Where there are multiple applications for the same domain, priority will be given first to applications from local government and public institutions. Multiple applications for the same domain thereafter will result in an auction.
Eligible qualifications for this phase include, but are not limited to:
* Nationally or regionally registered trademarks;
* Court-validated marks; and Marks protected by statute or treaty
* Regional collective marks
* Business or organisation registration certificates
* No supporting documentation is required on submission of an application, however the registry may require such documents to be submitted, eg a trademark certificate. Validation may take up to 10 days from the date of an application and no domains will be allocated prior to completion of the validation process.
Domain names must be an identical match to the trademark (or other eligible qualification):
* Where non-ASCII characters are contained in the mark, it is possible to apply for domains that are an ASCII transliteration.
* Where both ASCII and non-ASCII characters are contained in the mark, it is possible to apply for domains containing all textual elements of the trademark (or other eligible qualification) with non-ASCII transliterated into ASCII characters.
* Where a trademark certificate includes representations of the same mark in multiple scripts, the corresponding domain may be registered in ASCII characters.
* Where a trademark contains one or more hyphens, these may be omitted, provided that the domain meaning is not altered.
* Company or organisation identifiers (eg INC, KK, etc) may be omitted.
* Trademarks registered in Japanese characters may be transliterated in accordance with Japanese government or global (ISO3602) standards or other generally accepted systems such as the Hepburn system.
* Trademarks registered in scripts containing diacritical marks, such as the German umlaut or Spanish tilde, may be registered in ASCII characters with marks omitted or using conventionally accepted spelling (eg “ae”, etc).
* Domains may be registered for 1 year during the Sunrise II Phase.

Limited Registration Period
A period running concurrently with the Sunrise Period, during which only certain specific entities and/or individuals will have the right to register their domain names in the TLD.

Defensive Registrations
TMCH-validated trademarks that do not comply with .gal eligibility requirements

Public Interest LRP
Limited Registration Period to allow legal entities which have a specific vocation in promoting the Galician community Public Interest, including Public Administrations with competences Galicia, to register:

(i) their own names (including clear variations and/or abbreviations thereof),
(ii) their online services,
(iii) the same domain names registered by them in other TLDs and effectively used, and
(iv) their registered trademarks.

Local Trademarks LRP
Limited Registration Period to allow legal entities to register:

- Non TMCH-­validated trademarks with effect in the areas where Basque is an autochthonous language:
(i.e. Spanish trademarks, EU Community trademarks, and WIPO International trademarks with effect in Spain or France)
and
- Geographical Indications:

recognised by International or Spanish legislation.

Prior Content LRP
Limited registration period intended to allow legal entities proving prior online communications in Galician (e.g. through a website, mailing list, blog…) to register:

(i) their official names (including clear variations and/or abbreviations thereof); and/or

(ii) the same domain names registered by them in other TLDs and effectively used

If more than one applicant as submitted an application for the same name within this category, the successful applicant will be determined by auction.