.oil

.OIL is an open, governed namespace for the oil and energy value chain: the companies that find, produce, refine, transport, trade, service, regulate and decarbonise oil, and the organisations that work with them. The sector is among the largest and oldest in the world economy and has no namespace of its own. Its participants are dispersed across country-code and legacy generic domains in which nothing signals the sector or the activity. .OIL provides a single, recognisable and openly available place in the DNS for that industry and for the transition it is undergoing. The value chain is not a single activity. It includes exploration and production; refining and petrochemicals; midstream transport and storage; trading and pricing; oilfield services, equipment and engineering; safety, inspection and certification; regulation and public oversight; research, education and professional bodies; and the technologies applied to reduce the sector's emissions, including carbon capture and storage, methane detection and abatement, remediation. It also includes the non-petroleum senses of the word: lubricants, culinary, essential and cosmetic oils, and the trades built around them. .OIL serves that entire field on equal terms. The Registry Operator's function is to operate the TLD securely, to publish and apply transparent registration policies, and to make names available to all eligible registrants through all accredited registrars on equal terms. The Applicant operates within the sector the TLD serves, and therefore states the following as commitments: .OIL is not a closed or exclusive namespace. It will not be operated for the exclusive or preferential use of the Applicant, its affiliates or any commercial partner. Registration is open to eligible third parties, including the Applicant's direct competitors. The Applicant takes no preference in the allocation of names. Its own registrations and those of its affiliates will be made through an accredited registrar on the same terms, at the same prices and with the same access to availability data as any other registrant. Specification 9 applies in full and no Code of Conduct exemption is sought. .OIL is not a certification, licence, accreditation or endorsement. A registration says nothing about a registrant's competence, compliance, safety record or environmental performance, and will not be represented as doing so. .OIL is not an advocacy instrument. Registration policy, allocation, reservation and suspension will not be used to advance or suppress any commercial, political or environmental position. Operating principles: Openness. Names available to eligible registrants, and access for accredited registrars, on non-discriminatory terms. Neutrality of the operator. The Applicant's separate commercial activity in the sector confers no advantage inside the namespace, and the registry function is operationally and informationally separated from its operating business. Breadth. The namespace serves the whole value chain and the whole ordinary meaning of the word, not one segment of it. Accurate description. No claim will be made for a .OIL registration that the Registry Operator cannot itself perform. Room to evolve. The Registry Operator defines the namespace and its governance; it does not attempt to fix today how the sector, or the energy system around it, will look decades from now. Registration is open to any person or entity with a bona fide connection to the name registered and a lawful use for it. The Registry Operator will verify, by consistent and commercially reasonable means, that the registrant is identifiable and has stated a lawful purpose; it will not assess the merits or environmental performance of any registrant's business. Names are allocated first-come, first-served through accredited registrars after the mandatory Sunrise period and Trademark Claims service.

1. Mission and purpose. This gTLD will be operated as an open, unrestricted generic top-level domain. Its purpose is to expand naming choice in the DNS by making this term available at the top level for any lawful use chosen by the registrant. Registrations will be available to all registrants on a first-come, first-served basis through ICANN-accredited registrars, subject only to the Registry Agreement, ICANN Consensus Policies, and applicable law. The applicant will not operate this gTLD on an exclusive basis. 2. Intended registrants and users. Intended registrants are individuals, businesses, and other organizations worldwide seeking a short, meaningful domain name. There are no eligibility or name selection restrictions beyond those required by the Registry Agreement, ICANN Consensus Policies, and applicable law. Intended users are internet users worldwide who access domain names registered in this gTLD. 3. Related activities. The applicant is an established registry operator under contract with ICANN for 35 gTLDs, including .xyz. It has in place a qualified Registry Service Provider, distribution agreements with ICANN-accredited registrars across multiple regions, and all required rights protection mechanisms and DNS abuse mitigation practices. For this gTLD the applicant will onboard the TLD to its existing registry platform, conduct a Sunrise Period and Trademark Claims Period, launch General Availability through its registrar channel, and maintain ongoing registrar enablement, abuse monitoring, and compliance reporting. 4. Sustainability. Operation is funded by recurring registration and renewal revenue and does not depend on any single registrant, sector, or campaign. This gTLD will run on the applicant's existing shared registry infrastructure, so incremental operating cost is low and no minimum registration volume is required for viability. The applicant has operated gTLDs continuously since 2014.