Eligibility for Membership

1. All Members must maintain a valid registration of one or more Internet domain names under the .hk ccTLD.

2. The membership of the Company may be divided into such classes as the Directors may from time to time determine. Unless otherwise determined by the Directors, the classes of membership and their respective admission criteria shall be as follows:

(a) Supply Class

(i) any person who is a Registry Operator (apart from the Company itself) for any level of Internet domain names under the Hong Kong country code top level domain “.hk ccTLD and .香港”;

(ii) any person who is a Registrar (accredited by the Company) for any level of Internet domain names under the Hong Kong country code top level domain “.hk ccTLD and.香港”;

(iii) any person who is a Service Partner in respect of domain name registration for any level of Internet domain names under the Hong Kong country code top level domain “.hk ccTLD and .香港”;

(iv) any person who, in the opinion of the Board, is a service provider of e-commerce or Internet-related services or any association representing the interests of such person.

(b) Demand Class

Any person who does not qualify for membership in the Supply Class.

persons’ means such person (as defined in the Interpretation and General Clauses Ordinance (Cap 1)), associations, organisations or bodies residing in or registered under Hong Kong law as determined by the Directors from time to time.

‘Service Partner’ means a person who has a valid agreement with us or its wholly-owned subsidiaries under the Service Partner program published from time to time on the web site of our wholly-owned subsidiary, Hong Kong Domain Name Registration Company Limited, to register domain names under the Hong Kong country code top level domain .hk ccTLD on behalf of his/her customers.

3. A Member of one class may not be a Member of any other class at the same time.