Domain Name Owners Association
Code of Ethics
Membership in the Domain Name Owners Association is voluntary and signifies a domain owners' agreement to to the following code of ethics in its entirety.
- Members of the Domain Name Owners Association shall exercise the
utmost level of integrity in all business transactions and in all
relations with other buyers, sellers, employees, and competitors.
Members shall work diligently to build and perpetuate faith and trust
in their business practicies.
- Association members shall dedicate themselves to the promotion of
professionalism within the domain name industry. Sellers shall truthfully
identify themselves, their company, their products and the purposes
of their solicitation to the prospective customer.
- Association members shall refrain from the use of deceptive, unlawful
or unethical advertising or marketing when selling domain names. This
includes the practice of making misleading statements about a domain
name's traffic, its past earnings, pagerank, link popularity or other
statistics. Any such claims must be reasonably indicative of similar
results for the purchasing party, unless clearly stated otherwise.
- Association members shall not engage in the practice of domain theft,
and shall not purchase nor sell any domain that is known to be stolen
from its rightful owner.
- Association members shall not practice shill bidding in any auction,
whether on their own auctions or that belonging to an associate.
- Association members agree to honor sales agreements (including results
of auctions conducted by member) regardless of additional offers received
after entering such an agreement.
- Association members shall make no false statements nor circulate
harmful rumors about a competitors’ products, business, financial
or personal standing.
- Association members shall encourage fellow members of the Domain
Name Owners Association, and their colleagues to adhear to this Code
of Ethics.
Upon receipt of a complaint, association members shall make a good faith effort in resolving the issue addressed in the complaint. Violation of any of the above codes shall result in a revocation of active association membership status as determined by the association.
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