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No rule of law is inapplicable to a contract of carriage of goods by reason
only that the contract is set out in or evidenced by one or more electronic
records instead of paper documents.
Article 21
Domain Name Registration
1.
The Minister of Transportation may, by regulations made after
consultation with the Minister of Commerce and Industry and such other
persons and public bodies as the Minister considers appropriate or
desirable, including the body known as the Internet Corporation for
Assigned Names and Numbers, authorise, prohibit or regulate the
registration and use of the “bh” domain name in Bahrain.
2.
The regulation issued as to regulate the registration and use of the “bh”
domain name may prescribe the following:
(i)
the establishment of Domain Name Registration Office at the
Ministry of Transportation;
(ii)
the form of registration;
(iii)
the period during which registration continues in force;
(iv)
the manner in which the terms on which and the period or periods
for which registration may be renewed;
(v)
the circumstances and manner in which registrations may be
granted by the Domain Name Registration Office;
(vi)
process for contesting
Registration Office;
(vii)
determine the fees, if any, to be paid for the grant or renewal of
registration and the time and manner in which such fees are to be
paid, subject to prior consultation and approval of the Council of
Ministers;
the
decision
of
the
Domain
Name
(viii) such other matters relating to registration.
3.
For the application of the provisions of this Article, “bh domain name”
means the top level of the global domain name systems assigned to
Bahrain according to the two-letter code in the International Standard ISO
3166-1 (Codes for Representation of names of Countries and their
Subdivision) of the International Organisation for Standardisation.
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