: ICANN Violation and Trademarks I'm trying to register a domain name with a .eg(i live in egypt) as the top-level domain. However, the local registrant told me to register a domain with the

@Angie530

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The requirements for registering an .eg domain name are here.

Various TLDs have their own sets of requirements; there's no obvious violation of anything ICANN-related here. It looks like what you've been told might be half-true, depending upon exactly what name you're trying to register, and under what second-level domain, although I'm not so sure about use of the term "trademark" here. The .com.eg domain requires "commercial registry & taxation card" which I don't read as being the same thing.

Overall, the best thing for you to do would be to ask them directly and get an official response. There's a FAQ page that might cover your question, but I can't seem to get at the English version for it; if you can read it, give that a shot also.

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