Dommate · Legal
Acceptable Use Policy (AUP)
This policy is part of the Terms of Service. Violations lead to domain revocation and account suspension.
1. Absolutely Prohibited
On any *.net.rich, *.edu.rich, *.ii.pe, *.pa.ax, or *.ac.chat domain, you must not:
- CSAM: immediate revocation; may be reported to law enforcement.
- Phishing: impersonation of any organization, brand, bank, or service provider.
- Malware: distribution or C&C (Trojans, ransomware, cryptominers, botnets).
- DDoS tooling or traffic reflection.
- Bulk unsolicited commercial email.
- Scams: fraudulent investment, illegal fundraising, gambling, Ponzi/pyramid schemes.
- Hate speech, terrorism, or violent extremism.
- Targeted harassment or doxxing.
- IP infringement beyond fair use.
- Impersonating well-known brand labels; these are hard-reserved.
- Bulk AI-generated content farms: LLM-produced pages with no human editorial input, optimized for SEO or ad revenue. AI-assisted human writing is still OK; unattended bulk output is not.
- AI-generated application rationale or fake identity: including the purpose field and blog verification content.
- Anything that violates Hong Kong law, the suffix's home-country law, or your own local law (see ToS §12.1: .rich → Germany/EU, .pe → Peru, .ax → Finland/EU, .chat → US).
2. Security Abuse (Strictly Prohibited)
Strictly prohibited: using the Service's multi-tenant DNS infrastructure to:
- Launch cross-domain privilege escalation, cookie hijacking / injection, session fixation, or CSRF against other users.
- Abuse cookie Domain attribute or same-site default semantics to bypass browser security boundaries.
- Exploit PSL inclusion state changes to impersonate, inject into, or elevate privileges on another user's domain.
Such activities result in immediate revocation and account suspension; law-enforcement cooperation as applicable.
3. Technical Constraints
- Labels 3–30 chars, lowercase + digits + hyphens only, no leading/trailing hyphen.
- Record counts are tiered by domain age: 6 at approval, 10 / 20 / 30 after 30 / 90 / 365 days. Only A / AAAA / CNAME / TXT supported by default; MX requires 90 days of normal use plus content review to unlock.
- TTL must be one of 300 / 600 / 3600 / 86400; other values are rejected.
- Max 6 active domains per account, and a lifetime total of 15 applications (including revoked / rejected).
- Domain applications use a per-user scoring system: bind external accounts at /verifications; score ≥ the per-suffix threshold (pa.ax/net.rich 20, ii.pe/ac.chat 35, edu.rich 42) means auto-approval, otherwise human review. See ToS §15.
- Do not script / share / borrow accounts to inflate scores. Each external account can only be bound to one Dommate user; 30-day cooldown after unbind.
4. Gray-area Uses
The following may be rejected during human review or revoked based on community impact:
- Crypto-heavy content.
- Unlicensed aggregators.
- Link farms, SEO manipulation.
- Ad redirects, URL shorteners.
- Non-educational uses of *.edu.rich.
5. Reporting Abuse
Anyone may report abuse via:
- Web: dommate.com/report (preferred — guided form with field validation).
- Email: abuse@dommate.com (preferred for CSAM / privacy-sensitive reports).
- API: POST https://api.dommate.com/api/abuse (machine integration, with captcha and rate limit).
Please include: target FQDN, category, description with evidence, and your email (optional).
6. Response SLA
Responses by severity (identical to SLA §3):
| Category | Response |
|---|---|
| CSAM | Immediate |
| Phishing / Malware | 24 hours |
| Other (copyright, spam, etc.) | 72 hours |
"Response" = investigation begins or revocation executed. Clock starts on receipt of a complete report.
7. Enforcement Actions
- Revoke the domain (clear hosted DNS records, mark as revoked).
- Suspend account.
- Permanently blacklist email or GitHub ID.
- Cooperate with law enforcement.
In serious cases (CSAM, active fraud, large-scale malware), simultaneous without prior appeal.
8. Appeal
If you believe revocation was mistaken, appeal within 30 days by emailing abuse@dommate.com with evidence. We review within 7 business days.