The Policy provides that a Registrar may seek an exemption from SITA for the registration fees for excess deletes made during the AGP. The Registrar must supply, on or before the last day of the month following the deletion of the domain name(s), at least the following information to SITA:

• Registrar Name
• IANA ID number
• Date of request
• Date names were deleted
• Number of names deleted
• List of names affected
• Extraordinary circumstance/reason for request
• A statement that the information in the Exemption Request is true to best of the Registrar's knowledge.

SITA may choose to require additional information to process exemption requests. Each Registrar's exemption request must describe, with supporting documentation, the specific extraordinary circumstances upon which the request is based and explain how, at the time the names were deleted, any particular extraordinary circumstance was not known, reasonably could not be known, and was outside of the Registrar's control. For example, an unforeseen defect in software development might not necessarily be considered to be in the Registrar's control.

Submission of an exemption request should create no presumption of approval of the request. Grant of any exemption request is at SITA's sole and reasonable discretion.

For more information about the Exemption process please click here.