1. In order to request the registry of a domain name, the petitioner must have two name servers working that must be able to solve for the directions for the asked domains.

2. All requests for modifications to the owner or title holders information the registrant must send the modfications in letterheadand with the signatures of the legal representative of the company or organization. The request can be sent via fax or email to the following address:

Centro de Registro de Dominios Honduras/ RDS-HN
Casa No. 2016, Boulevard Francia, Col. Las Colinas
Tegucigalpa, M.D.C., Honduras
Tel:(504) 235 4141
Fax:(504) 235-5721
Correo Electrónico: nic-hn@rds.org.hn
Web Site: http://www.nic.hn

Every domain solicitor, once approved by the NIC-HN will commit to send the required original documentation in a term of thirty working days, to formalize the file that credits the legitimacy of rights; opposite case the NIC-HN does not take any responsibility for the damages that may be caused by not having the required information to dissolve any conflict related to the right of his/her domain.

The internet service providers that wish to register under the .HN domain will have to demonstrate proof of registry or authorization granted by CONATEL and a letter of the chief executive or legal representative of the company requesting the domain, all must be sent to the fax or the mailing dress mentioned before.

•  The title, authority and responsibility of a DNS domain name rely entirely on the subscriber. Therefore, an Internet provider is not owner or manager of the domain registered for the organization to whom it supplies a service; this disposition will prevail even though the supplier has been made intermediary before the NIC-HN for the management of the domain by request of the company.

• An important disposition of the present policy is that an Organization or Company can keep a domain name even if it changes internet supplier or receives service from several suppliers at the same time.

• The NIC-HN is not responsible for any violation against intellectual or industrial property rights by a registered DNS domain. Therefore the NIC-HN and the RDS are exempt of any dispute; being these actions the absolute responsibility of the subscriber.

•  The services provided by the NIC-HN are framed under the present policies and laws determined by the National Commission of Telecommunications CONATEL. Therefore any international routing of voice communications in real time that end in the country is prohibited and may be sanctioned by the judicial and civil laws of Honduras.

•  The fact of registering a domain name does not confer any legal right on itself, any conflict that is generated by the use of it, will have to be solved between the contending parts, according to the principles contained in the Internet document RFC 1591.

•  In the case a conflict occurs as a result of the registration of a domain name, the RDS-HN’s only responsibility is to provide any contact information that may contribute to the resolution of the dispute by means of conciliation, arbitrage or competent court.

• The Network of Sustainable Development NIC-HN/RDS, Hondutel and CONATEL will not be in any case responsible for the violation of intellectual or industrial property rights, or any other rights or legitimate interests, that can be derived from the registry of DNS domain names of second level under the .HN; Moreover, Technical and Administrative Coordination as well as other employees will not be responsible.