In order to generate the school name element of the .sch.uk Domain Names we have used the process outlined below to achieve Domain Names where each combination of the Third Level Domain (3LD) and Fourth Level Domain (4LD) is unique.

Each school name as listed in the database supplied by the Scottish Executive Education Department (SEED) is divided up by word.

For example: 'Churchgate CofS Primary School' is split into the following words - 'Churchgate', 'CofS, 'Primary' and 'School'.

Each word is then converted into lower case and all non-alphanumeric characters are removed.

All non-identifying words are removed e.g. 'school' and any mention of the school's phase or religion is also removed unless these words are required to create a unique Domain Name.

The following standard abbreviations and syntax are used:

• If the school's name includes a Saints name the word 'St' becomes 'st-' and is prefixed to the 4LD.
• If the school's name includes the word 'st' but it is not the first word of the school's name then '-st-' is appended to the 4LD.
• If the school's name has plural 'saints' the prefix 'ss-' may be used.
• Certain words are abbreviated as follows:

  primary	-pri	-primary
  junior	-jun	-junior
  infant	-inf	-infant
  middle	-mid	-middle
  nursery	-nur	-nurs	-nursery
  infants	-inf	-infants
  preparatory	-prep
  technology	-tech
  secondary	-sec
  comprehensive	-comp
  college	-coll
  pupil referral unit	-pru
  special pupil referral unit	-spru
  pupil learning support services	-plss
  tutorial unit	-tu
  Pupil Support Centre	-psc
  Learning Centre	-lc
  community college	-cc
  international	-int
  Church of Scotland	cofs
  Roman Catholic	rc

  Where indicated these abbreviations are always separated from the proceeding words in the Domain Name by a hyphen.

  The use of initials is not permitted within the <school name> segment of a .sch.uk domain name unless authorised by the Scottish Executive Education Department.

• If the school's name contains words that are shown on the abbreviation list then '-abbreviation' is appended as a suffix to the 4LD.
• All the remaining words of the school's name are strung together to form the 4LD.

MANDATORY RULES

The rules as specified in the document "Rules for the .uk domain and sub-domains" shall apply to the extent that they do not conflict with the terms of this document.

Where two applications are made for the same name then the one which is received first shall have prior claim.

The end result for the Churchgate CofS Primary School's domain could be any one of the following:

churchgate.area.sch.uk
churchgate-pri.area.sch.uk
churchgatecofs.area.sch.uk
churchgatecofs-pri.area.sch.uk
churchgate-area.area.sch.uk