Commentaries: Art. 16

The Registry may collaborate with any third party which provides assistance in identifying and evaluating threats, abuses and dangers which affect or might affect the management of the domain for which it is responsible, the infrastructure dedicated to this management or the DNS. It shall ensure that the third parties concerned can, on a voluntary basis, exchange with it in a secure manner personal information and data on these threats, abuses or dangers. It may disclose such personal information and personal data to them, if necessary without the knowledge of the persons concerned. This disclosure may take place in the retrieval procedure.¹
It shall report to the specialist federal services incidents concerning security of information that affect the domain for which it or the DNS is responsible. It may process personal data in connection with these incidents and communicate it to the specialist services, if necessary without the knowledge of the persons concerned. This disclosure may take place in the retrieval procedure or by means of the block transmission of data.²
At the request of a Swiss authority intervening within the scope of its responsibilities, the Registry shall request the holder of a domain name without a valid Swiss correspondence address to indicate such an address and to disclose its identity within 30 days. The Registry shall revoke the domain name if the holder does not comply within the time limit; it shall notify the requesting Swiss authority of the revocation.³ ⁴. ^{Otherwise, Article 13}^b ^{TCA applies by analogy to the administrative assistance guaranteed by the Registry.}

Amended by No I of the O of 15 Sept. 2017, in force since 1 Nov. 2017 (AS 2017 5225). ↩
Amended by No I of the O of 15 Sept. 2017, in force since 1 Nov. 2017 (AS 2017 5225). ↩
Amended by No I of the O of 15 Sept. 2017, in force since 1 Nov. 2017 (AS 2017 5225). ↩

Art. 16

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