Catalan (cat) domain registration - please help!

Discussion in 'Legal Issues' started by Chuckun, Jul 19, 2010.

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    There is a sponsored TLD ".cat" which has an agreement whereby to own a .cat domain you must either be of the Catalan culture, or speak the Catalan language.

    Other exceptions are that you get recommended by three other .cat domain owners, or run a website with the purpose of promoting the Catalan culture / language.

    I truthfully don't intend on doing any of this, but I really do need to register a .cat domain.

    Some websites are known to be breaking the agreement such as meow.cat..

    But I have seen one other domain; korat.cat which seem to offer the site in the Catalan language..

    Could this allow me to register a .cat extension? If I were to offer the site in English and Catalan, and maybe even put a page up explaining the .cat domain and all that it stands for, do you think I would fit into the category of "promoting catalan culture / language"?

    Like I said, Meow.cat seem to get away with it without any reference to catalan, so surely if I make a sound enough reference, and offer catalan translation, I would meet the standards of the domain registration agreement?

    For Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.cat

    Thanks a lot for all help..

    Chuckun
     
    Chuckun, Jul 19, 2010 IP