py terms&conditions

py terms & conditions

Guidelines of the Service of Delegation of Names of domain name for TLD PY 

1-Administracion of the delegation of names of domain name in Paraguay

The service of delegation of dependent names of domain name of national domain name PY, is offered by the NIC Paraguay (NIC-py) through the Laboratory of Electro'nica Digital (LED) of the Catholic University of Asuncio'n and the National Center of Computacio'n (CNC) of the National University of Asuncio'n, by delegation of the authorized being for the allocation of names and Internet addresses, according to the principles contained in RFC 1591 - Structure Domain Name System and Delegation, and in the ICP1 - ccTLD Delegation Practices Document.

It is responsibility of the LED to accept or to reject the requests of delegation of domain names and of the CNC to maintain updated and operative the data base of the DNS.

The NIC is in charge to by itself make all the tasks related to its functions or or by third delegation to properly authorized.

The NIC acts in quality of coordinating being in order to administer the delegation of domain name names. It has neither will have jurisdictional faculties nor other prerogatives nor obligations outside the guidelines mentioned here. The NIC will act like mediator, neither like referee, nor will take part of no way in the conflicts that are possibly provoked between the people in charge of the names of domain name delegated and/or applicants and/or third, relative to the delegation or use of such.

The NIC will not bear responsibility of any class if, because of some competent authority, it had to suspend the delegation of a domain name name or had to cancel it or, in general, to give course to any pertinent instruction. The Catholic University Our Lady of Asuncio'n, the LED, the National University of Asuncio'n, the CNC and their civil employees and advisers are released early of any responsibility and the Applicant resigns specifically to the legal actions.

The NIC maintains an information service Web in http://www.nic.py


The information published in that site will assume well-known by all interested and the people in charge of the domain names. The NIC is not forced to make no other type of publication.


2-Tipos of delegated domain names

The domain names of second level determine the nature of the name of a domain name. A company or institution will be able to ask for a certain name of domain name of third level only under one of the domain names of second level, that that better identify or reflect the aims, the structure, services, or products of the same one.

The NIC carries out the delegation of new names of domain name under the domain names of second level: ORG.PY, EDU.PY, MIL.PY, GOV.PY, NET.PY, COM.PY.

GOV: Only reserved for governmental institutions.

NET: Only to those companies that serve of access to Internet.

EDU: Educative institutions: state schools or deprived of primary education, schools public or deprived of secondary education, universities recognized by the Ministry of Education and Culture.

THOUSANDS: Military institutions of the country.

ORG: Nongovernmental organizations and without profit aims.

COM: Any organism to which the previous cases are not applied.

It corresponds to the NIC to determine the rating of other domain names of second level.


3-Subdominios of third level

Once delegate a name of domain name corresponding to an organization, this one will be able to create the hierarchy of subdomain names of inferior level that creates advisable to reflect its departmental structure, geographic distribution, branches, services, products, marks, etc.

It is recommended that the names of domain names for parts or dependencies of organizations (branch, departments, delegations and/or secretariats of an organization) are administered internally below a zone of domain name of third level that has been delegated by the NIC.PY and that it corresponds to the organization as a whole. However, of exceptional form the requests of delegation for organizativas sub-units could be considered, whenever these have in themselves a public identity well-known good.


4-Los applicants

The following people can ask for the delegation of names of domain names under domain name PY:

Natural people at the moment domiciled or legally resident in the Republic of Paraguay


Public or Deprived Legal people, Companies and organizations of Public or Deprived Right, constituted in Paraguay


Public or Deprived Legal people, Companies and organizations of Public or Deprived Right, constituted abroad, by means of constituted representatives properly authorized in Paraguay


5-on the Responsible Organization

The Responsible Organization is that for which a domain name name is delegated. That is to say, she is the one who will use the domain name indeed. The applicant, who is the one who completes the forms and carries out the managements related to the delegation, can be the same Responsible Organization or can be some third that makes the proceedings in name of the Responsible Organization, who is the unique one that exerts before the NIC the responsibility on the delegated domain name.

By the fact to ask for the delegation of a name of domain name under domain name PY, it is understood that the Responsible Organization:

It knows the operation technical the System of Names of Dominios (DNS) of Internet and knows the meaning of the terms that are used in their management.

It accepts specifically, it subscribes and it is committed to fulfill and to govern themselves the present by all the norms contained in document, without reserves of no species.

It releases of any responsibility to the NIC, to the Catholic University Our Lady of Asuncio'n, to the LED, the National University of Asuncio'n, the CNC and to their civil employees and advisers, by the obligations, responsibilities and other acts or cause that generate obligations to him to the applicant, resigning express early and to any legal action.


It will be of exclusive responsibility of the Responsible Organization who the delegated domain name fulfills the effective legal norms in the territory of the Republic of the Paraguay and that does not infringe rights of third.

The NIC will not have any responsibility by the use that becomes of a name of domain name once delegated the Responsible Organization who asked for it.

6-Los servants DNS

The Responsible Organization must make sure that correctly the delegated domain name works. This implies that the operation of the servants of names must be made with sufficient technical competition, aiming at a permanent availability of the service.

It is exclusive responsibility of the Responsible Organization to maintain servants DNS of the delegated domain name operative.


The NIC is authorized to implement mechanisms of verification of the domain names delegated for the elimination of those domain names that remain nonoperative by more than 90 days.

The correct configuration of the servants of names indicated in the request of the domain name is whole responsibility of the Organization Responsible for the domain name.


7-Costos of the Service

The NIC is authorized to receive tariffs by the delegation, renovation, modification or elimination or manutención of a domain name name. The effective table of tariffs is published in the pages of the NIC( www.nic.py/costos ).

He is requisite essential to maintain the use of a delegation of domain name name cancelling opportunely all the tariffs that are applicable. It is responsibility of the applicant of the domain name to stay informed with respect to the updates into the table of tariffs.


8-Vigencia of the delegation

The delegation of domain names has a renewable validity of 1 () year as of the date of activation. For more details it sees the information on the delegation costs and renovation.

It is responsibility of the Organization Responsible for the domain name to exactly compliment the procedure of renovation of domain names.

9-Los names of domain names

The names of domain name asked for the NIC can consist solely of the letters "to" a "z" (excluding "ñ"), the the" 9 "digits of the" 0 "to and the script" - "; distinction between capital letters and small letters does not exist. The following points will have to be observed in addition:


The character script "-" it cannot be used like first nor last character of the domain name name.


The minimum length of a domain name name is of two characters, but it is recommended that it consists of at least five characters to diminish probability of conflicts.

The Maxima length admitted for a domain name name is of sixty and three characters, but it is recommended not to exceed twenty-four characters.


The NIC will be able to reject the delegation of domain name names that agree with some name of domain name of first or second level used in Internet. For example: EDU, COM, GOV, GOB, THOUSANDS, ORG, INT, NET, ARPA.


The requests of delegation of domain name names will also be rejected that obviously harm the moral and moral convention.

Also the requests of domain name names could be denied that evidently agree with names of organizations, products, services or known marks affluent, like generic words of public domain name and own names of places, unless the Responsible Organization credits to have the due authorization to ask for it.

domain names corresponding to names of people will not be able to be delegated unless the name of asked for domain name in agreement the public image of the Responsible Organization and through this name offers products or services.

The distinguishing domain names that agree with "the national" word, "official" or "Paraguay" or the letters, words or names that use or must use the Republic, the departments, and/or the cities of the country, could only be asked for by the public organizations that correspond.