Vertical position of a policy
In the policy mapping, the domain name policies are placed vertically on the scale of
requirements for applicant based on a value computed from the answers in the policy survey. The different requirements have been given different values according to how strict they are, and the sum of the requirements that a policy have are computed to give the position of the policy on the scale of requirements. If a policy is counted as partially having a requirement, it gets half the value of that requirement when computing the sum.
The values of the requirements are:
- Require the registrant to document some kind of right to the domain name
(e.g. requiring the domain to be a tradename, a trademark, the organization
name etc.) = value 6. This requirement is weighted more
heavily than the other two. - Require the registrant to be situated in the country of the TLD = value 2
(or 1 if only the admin contact is required to be resident in the contry) - Require the registrant to be a registered organization = value 2
The border between the strict upper categories and the more liberalised
lower categories goes at 5, so all policies that requires documentation
ends up in the higher categories, and all that don't ends in the lower
categories (as this is a requirement that significantly influences how
strict a policy is percieved to be).
Horizontal position of a policy
Policies that has a limit on the number of domain names
that a registrant may have are placed on the left side of the figure.
The higher the limit is (in number of domain names), the closer the policy
is to the centre of the figure. Domain name policies without a limit on
the number of domain names are placed on the right side of the figure.