A Community Applicant must propose and obtain ICANN's approval of Community Registration Policies for inclusion in Specification 12 of the applicable Registry Agreement. At a minimum, the proposed policies must include details about who would be allowed to register domain names under the applied-for string (i.e., registrant eligibility) and what kinds of second-level domains will be permitted to be registered (i.e., naming selection). If the applicant does not have any approved Community Registration Policies, the application would not be able to proceed and would be ineligible to participate in the Community Priority Evaluation.
ICANN will conduct the Registry Commitments Evaluation to evaluate the proposed Community Registration Policies against specific criteria to ensure such policies proposed by applicants for inclusion in the applicable RA are enforceable as a practicable matter and are compatible with the ICANN Bylaws.