Applicant and individuals named within the Organizational Account Record must be in good corporate standing under their applicable laws and regulations.
Applicant and individuals named within the Organizational Account Record must confirm that they are free and absent of:
- Convictions of any crime related to financial or corporate governance activities, or judgements by a court to have committed fraud or breach of fiduciary duty, or subject of a judicial determination that is the substantive equivalent of any of these within the last ten years.
- Disciplinary actions by any government or industry regulatory body for conduct involving dishonesty or misuse of funds of others within the last ten years.
- Convictions of any willful tax-related fraud or willful evasion of tax liabilities within the last ten years.
- Convictions of perjury, forswearing, failing to cooperate with a law enforcement investigation, or making false statements to a law enforcement agency or Representative within the last ten years.
- Convictions of any crime involving the use of computers, telephony systems, telecommunications or the Internet to facilitate the commission of crimes;
- Convictions of any crime involving the use of a weapon, force, or the threat of force;
- Convictions of any violent or sexual offense victimizing children, the elderly, or individuals with disabilities;
- Convictions within the last ten years of the illegal sale, manufacture, or distribution of pharmaceutical drugs, or been convicted or successfully extradited for any offense described in Article 3 of the United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances of 1988.
- Note: A past conviction for an offense that is no longer a criminal offense in the jurisdiction at the time of application shall not be considered.
- Convictions or been successfully extradited for any offense described in the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (all Protocols);
- Convictions of aiding, abetting, facilitating, enabling, conspiring to commit, any of the listed crimes above; and
- Entrance of a guilty plea as part of a plea agreement or has a court case in any jurisdiction with a disposition of Adjudicated Guilty or Adjudication Withheld (or regional equivalents) within the respective timeframes listed above for any of the listed crimes.
- Systematic or repetitive engagement in cybersquatting, as defined in the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP), Anti-cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA), or other equivalent legislation, or was engaged in reverse domain name hijacking under the UDRP or bad faith or reckless disregard under the ACPA or equivalent legislation. Three or more such decisions with one occurring in the last four years will generally be considered to constitute a systematic or repetitive engagement in cybersquatting.
- A final determination by a dispute resolution provider or a court of competent jurisdiction of intellectual property infringement relating to registration or use of a domain name by the applicant or any of the individuals named in the Organizational Account Record respectively, within the last 10 years.