The Verisign registry solution provides a mechanism for reserving second-level domain
names that prevents them from being registered. This functionality includes a list of
strings that the system will not allow to be registered. Strings can be added and
removed from this list as needed.

For the protection of geographic names for the CHINESE_TRADITIONAL_TRANSLITERATION_OF_COM gTLD, the country
and territory names contained in the following internationally recognized lists shall be
blocked initially:

* The short form (in English) of all country and territory names, including the
European Union, contained on the International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
3166-1 list:

http:⁄⁄www.iso.org⁄iso⁄support⁄country_codes⁄iso_3166_code_lists⁄iso-3166-
1_decoding_table.htm#EU

* The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names (UNGEGN),
Technical Reference Manual for the Standardization of Geographical Names, Part III
Names of Countries of the World:

http:⁄⁄unstats.un.org⁄unsd⁄geoinfo⁄UNGEGN⁄publications.html

* The list of United Nations member states, in six official United Nations
languages, prepared by the Working Group on Country Names of the United Nations
Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names. The most recent list of
country names approved by the Working Group was submitted on behalf of UNGEGN
for the Ninth UN Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names in August
2007: E⁄CONF.98⁄89 Add.1 (http:⁄⁄unstats.un.org⁄unsd⁄geoinfo⁄ungegn⁄docs⁄9th-
uncsgn-docs⁄econf⁄9th_UNCSGN_e-conf-98-89-add1.pdf)

As new versions of these three internationally recognized lists are published, Verisign
will update the list of names reserved by the Verisign registry system to reflect any
changes.

In addition to providing protection for geographic names, this reserved name
functionality will be used to reserve other names specifically ineligible for delegation.
For example, Section 2.2.1.2.3 of the Applicant Guidebook lists strings associated with
the International Olympic Committee and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent
organizations to be prohibited from delegation per the Government Advisory Committee
(GAC) request.

All the strings on these lists as well as any others put forth by the GAC and approved by
ICANN will be included in the list of reserved names.

There are no plans at this time to release any of the reserved names. If, however,
Verisign intends to release any of the names at a future date, we will follow the
appropriate procedures, outlined in Section 5 of Specification 5, on the release of
reserved names.