Policy Alignment
- Uses ICANN-style principles for registration agreements, abuse mitigation, RDAP publication, accuracy, lifecycle controls, and dispute handling where appropriate for a policy-driven domain registry.
- Preserves upstream country-code registry authority for AFNIC-family labels in .pm, .wf, and .yt and Greece-family labels in .gr.
- Requires qualified legal review before production publication in jurisdictions where UDR, registrars, or registrants operate.
01 Scope
Premium labels are UDR labels that carry higher registry value because of length, category, keyword meaning, memorability, commercial relevance, geographic relevance, institutional relevance, scarcity, traffic, language value, or strategic value to a supported extension.
02 Classification Criteria
UDR may classify a label as premium before registration, after deletion, before reserved release, during a promotional program, or after a pricing review. Classification does not imply that UDR owns third-party rights in the label or that registration is legally risk-free.
- Short labels, dictionary terms, category-defining terms, commercially valuable verbs or nouns, high-demand personal names, locations, acronyms, and highly memorable labels may be premium.
- Labels connected to regulated services, finance, education, health, public authority, authentication, or security may require manual review even when premium pricing is accepted.
- UDR may withhold some labels as reserved rather than offer them as premium.
03 Premium Price Structure
Premium pricing may be one-time, recurring, tiered, negotiated, auction-based, registrar-channel, campaign-based, or manually quoted. Renewal pricing may be standard or premium depending on the label, price schedule, registrar disclosure, and accepted order terms.
- Registrant-facing checkout must clearly disclose premium status and renewal pricing before payment.
- Registrar partners must not hide premium classification or imply a premium label is standard inventory.
- UDR may require payment confirmation, identity checks, rights checks, or intended-use review before activation.
04 Quotes, Errors, and Manual Review
Premium quotes expire at the time stated in the quote or, if no time is stated, when UDR updates the price schedule or withdraws the offer. UDR may cancel or correct a premium order before activation if a technical error, stale feed, conflicting reserved status, rights concern, fraud alert, or upstream issue is discovered.
05 Renewal, Transfer, and Registrant Change
Premium labels remain subject to the same lifecycle and policy rules as standard labels. UDR may restrict transfers or registrant changes during unpaid invoices, disputes, abuse investigations, premium quote review, chargebacks, or upstream holds.
- Renewal fees are due before expiration. Failure to renew may cause the label to expire, enter redemption, be deleted, become reserved, or be repriced.
- Premium classification may follow the label after transfer unless UDR confirms a different written arrangement.
06 Refunds and Disputes
Premium fees are generally non-refundable after activation. A registrant disputing premium status should provide the label, invoice, registrar disclosure, quote, and reason for review. UDR may correct pricing errors, but premium classification itself is a registry decision unless a binding legal order requires a different outcome.
07 Indicative Premium Tiers
UDR may publish indicative tiers for transparency. The operational quote returned by the registry or registrar at checkout controls when accepted.
- Tier P1: short or category-defining labels, individually quoted.
- Tier P2: strong commercial or institutional terms, premium registration and renewal may apply.
- Tier P3: niche keywords, campaigns, or names released from reservation, premium registration may apply with standard or premium renewal.