This document sets out guiding criteria for determining the relationship between a domain name and the registrant when requesting a domain name registration, without prejudice to the terms and conditions mentioned in the registration regulations. The criteria set forth in this document are guiding criteria to be used when choosing the domain name to be registered.
It is the construction of a new word from two or more words of different meaning and image, so that the new word takes all of them by luck in the pronunciation, denoting both of them in meaning, such as the abbreviation (In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful) in (Bismillah), or the abbreviation (Electronic) Mail) in (Email).1.2.1 Popular acronyms
The first form: It consists of the first letter in the word, such as:The second form: It consists of the first letters of the word (provided that it is a common practice), such as:
- meter = m
- page = p
- Fahrenheit = F
- North = N
The third form: It consists of several letters of the word placed in no order (provided that it is a common practice), such as:
- Continued = cont
- International = Inter
- volume = vol
- Network = Net
- Honorable = Hon
- Thursday = Thurs
Acronyms: Words formed from the first letter of each word found in a complete phrase, such as:
- assistant = asst
- department =dept
- kilometer = km
- tablespoonful=tbsp
- sergeant = Sgt
- Network Information Center = NIC
- Member of Parliament = MP
- compact disc = CD
- His Royal Highness = HRH
- very important person = VIP There are a few types of abbreviations that fall under this type, but they include the presence of the second letter of a word in the acronym. For example, the abbreviation for Bachelor of Science is BSc.
2.2.1 Unrecognized phrases in the acronym
When doing the abbreviation, he does not pay attention to some phrases, such as: (co.), (ltd.), (company), (institution), (group), (limited) or (the definition), and does not pay attention to the nature of the activity (trading) or (investment) or (the owner) nor to Pronouns or letters such as (a), (an), (the), (of), or (with).3.2.1 Abbreviations in Arabic
As for the Arabic language, the use of abbreviations is almost rare. Examples of abbreviated words in the Arabic language are:
- T = Telephone
- PO Box = PO Box
- SCT = Commercial Register
- LLC = Limited Liability
- Kilometers = Kilometers
- cm = centimeter
4.2.1 Use and combine shortcut shapes
A syllable that represents an abbreviation of a full name belonging to the registrant or symbolizes it in a logical way (verb and meaning) can be used to indicate and express it clearly (using one of the previous forms of abbreviation or a variety of them). The verbal correlation comes, for example, from the use of parts of the word (Net to denote Network) or an alternative word (4u to denote For you) or its prefixes, while the semantic connection is due to the meanings of the resulting words and their connection to the meaning of the original words. For example, the domain name (SaudiNIC.net.sa) is an abbreviated name taken from the official name of the Saudi Network Information Center (Saudi Network Information Center), where SaudiNIC stands for the center both verbally and meaninglessly.3.1 The domain name to be derived from the registrant name:
This criterion provides some flexibility for the registrant who wishes to register a domain name derived from his name, and this includes writing the domain name in other language characters (called ronma or transliteration), or translation, or adding some words that indicate his activity or something related to the registrant. He may need to provide proof of this relationship at or after registration.illustrative examples
For the purpose of clarifying the first criterion (relationship to the name of the registrant), we list here some acceptable and unacceptable examples: Official Entity Name: (Ehco Ehco) ✅ Acceptable examples:❌ Unacceptable examples:
- Eternal Happiness Company.Saudi Arabia
- Eternal-Happiness Company.Saudi Arabia
- Al-Saada Company.Saudi Arabia
- Eternal-happiness.Saudi Arabia
- Eternal happiness.Saudi Arabia
- His Excellency. Saudi Arabia
- Eternal-Happiness Products.Saudi Arabia
- Ehiko.Saudi Arabia
- Eternalhappiness.sa
- hyyat.sa
- Eternalhappiness.com.sa
- Eternal-happiness.sa
- happiness.sa
- AlSaadah-Alabadiah.sa
- Sa3dah.sa
- ehc-portal.sa
- ehc.com.sa
- ehco.sa
- ehc.sa
- eh.sa
- aa.com.sa
- S-A. Saudi Arabia
- Sa.Saudi Arabia
- ec.sa
- hec.sa
- Saudi Arabia
- Trading.Saudi Arabia
- Happiness-Real Estate.Saudi Arabia
- Company.sa
- HappinessMarriage.sa