This is an unofficial translation of the Resolution and is provided here for information purposes only. Reliance may only be placed upon the official Arabic version of the Resolution. 18- Gaining Registrar: An accredited registrar that a domain name is being transferred to, during a domain name transfer. 19- Registration Applicant: An entity or business submitting a completed application form for domain name registration to an accredited registrar. 20- Registrant: A registration applicant that has had their submitted application approved and the domain name registered in the registry system by the registrar. 21- WHOIS Service: Is a service provided by the registry and registrars for providing domain name ownership and other related information about a domain name. 22- Password: Is a combination of letters, numbers, and special characters put together and provided to the registrant, at the time of registration, to be used by the registrant when requesting domain name transfers, or other domain name information updates or ammendments. 23- Prohibited Names: These are words specified by the Authority which may not be registered as domain names for legal, moral, cultural, and technical reasons or for any other reasons considered by the Authority as stipulated in Article (5) of this policy. 24- Registrar–Registrant Agreement: An agreement between the Accredited Registrar and the Registrant which stipulates the rules and conditions for domain name registration as well as the rights and obligations of both parties. Article (2): The Authority is responsible for the management of the Oman country code toplevel domain name “.om” and the IDN Top-level domain name “‫عمان‬.” zones to include the ccTLD second-level domain name zones of org.om, gov.om, edu.om, com.om, co.om, med.om, net.om, mil.om, pro.om, and museum.om as well as any other gtld as ccTLD second-level domain name zones. In doing so, the Authority: 1- May modify the rules, instructions and guidelines for the administration of the aforementioned domain name zones. 2- Will approve registrars for accreditation and publish a list of accredited registrars in the Authority’s website or by any other means deemed necessary to disseminate this information.

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