I. INTRODUCTION Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Agency was established, as per the law No 39/2001 of 13 September 200, as an independent national institution with the mandate to regulate among other thing the telecommunication sector. The law No 44/2001 of 30 September 2001 organizing telecommunications together with the Presidential Decree n° 04/01 of 15/03/2004 determining specific duties of the Regulatory Board in telecommunications matters empowers RURA to manage the scarce resources including the Internet Resources. Internet Resources refer to IP addresses, Autonomous System Numbers and DNS. An Internet Protocol (IP) address is a numeric identifier that includes information about how to reach a network location via the Internet routing system while an Autonomous System (AS) is a group of IP networks that use a single and clearly defined routing policy. Autonomous System Numbers (ASNs) are globally unique numbers used to identify these groups of networks. IP addresses are not easy to remember. The Domain Name System (DNS) provides names for numbered devices on the Internet. Internet applications use the DNS to translate each name to an IP address. The IP address is how the device moves information through the Internet and DNS allows people to use names instead of remembering large numbers. Management of Internet Resources is best done on a coordinated basis. Internet numbers are a unique, limited resource. As technology evolves, changes may be needed in the number allocation system. These changes should also be coordinated. Being coordinated at international, regional and country level, each country is required to follow the same principle in doing so. It is in this spirit that Internet Resources are allocated in a delegated, hierarchical manner to avoid fragmentation. Internet Resources are finite and the technical requirements for their use need careful management to ensure responsible consumption. These guidelines provide for a consistent regulatory approach to critical management issues regarding Internet Resources in Rwanda. II. PURPOSES The purposes of these regulations are to provide for general rules for the management of Internet Resources and specific regulations for assignment of domain name under .rw country code top level domain. III. DEFINITIONS To the sense of the present regulations, one hears by: Country code top level domains means the uppermost domain in the hierarchy of the global Internet domain name system according to 2-letter codes under the ISO 3166-1 standard. Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Agency 3