Law of Estates, Domains, and Holdings

Section 1. Classes

The Crown may recognize root domains, office domains, service domains, public institutions, private institutions, personal estates, protected archives, reserved names, development names, and retired holdings.

Section 2. Recognition instrument

Recognition shall identify the name, class, holder or function, status, authority, effective date, custody, public visibility, and governing conditions.

Section 3. Technical custody

Hosting, DNS, registration, billing, deployment, credentials, or physical equipment may be held in technical custody by the Steward or another custodian. Technical custody does not alone establish beneficial ownership or office.

Section 4. Estate rights

A recognized estate may receive defined privacy, naming, access, continuity, and publication rights under its grant.

Section 5. Office domains

An office domain exists to serve the office, not the private identity of the current holder. A departing officeholder shall surrender its credentials and records.

Section 6. Reserved names

A reserved name is protected from conflicting Crown use but is not active, public, deployed, or granted merely because it is reserved.

Section 7. Directory

The Crown shall maintain an authoritative internal directory and may publish a sanitized public directory.

Section 8. Transfer

A transfer shall identify the prior status, new status, effective date, custody handover, and supporting authority.

Section 9. Retirement

A retired holding shall preserve historical identity, redirects or archival references where useful, and a record of retirement.

Section 10. External property

Nothing in a Crown recognition instrument transfers legal title to external property unless a valid external legal instrument also accomplishes that transfer.