Definitions
Article 2
For the purposes of this Regulation: (1) ‘Registry’ means the entity entrusted with the organisation, administration and management of the .eu TLD, including the maintenance of the corresponding databases and the associated public query services, the registration of domain names, the operation of the Registry of domain names, the operation of the Registry's TLD name servers, and the distribution of TLD zone files across name servers; (2) ‘Registrar’ means a natural or legal person that, on the basis of a contract with the Registry, provides domain name registration services to registrants; (3) ‘Internationalised Domain Name protocols’ means standards and protocols that support the use of domain names in characters that are not American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) characters; (4) ‘WHOIS database’ means the collection of data containing information on the technical and administrative aspects of the .eu TLD registrations; (5) ‘principles and procedures on the functioning of the .eu TLD’ means detailed rules concerning the functioning and management of the .eu TLD; (6) ‘registration’ means the series of acts and procedural steps, from initiation to completion, taken by Registrars and the Registry upon the request of a natural or legal person for the purpose of implementing the registration of a domain name for a specified duration.