# What is allowed on a domain registered through Postelva?

> What a Postelva domain may and may not be used for: no phishing, malware, botnets, fraud or CSAM; action within 24 hours.

- URL: https://postelva.com/acceptable-use/
- Last updated: 2026-11-12
- Publisher: Postelva (https://postelva.com)

A short list of what you may do with your domain, and the few things that end your right to keep it.

**Quick answer — What may I do with a domain registered through Postelva?**

You may use a Postelva domain for email, websites, forwarding and any lawful project, and you decide what it carries. You may not use it for phishing, malware, botnets, fraud that takes money from victims or child sexual abuse material. Those uses lead to action within 24 hours of a well-documented report, or immediately for CSAM.

## Allowed and not allowed

| Use of the domain | Status | What follows |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Private or professional email, aliases and forwarding | Allowed | Nothing |
| A personal site, a blog, a shop, an app | Allowed | Nothing |
| Opinions, criticism, political speech | Allowed | A complaint alone leads to no action |
| Phishing pages or emails that imitate a bank, a brand or a person to steal credentials | Not allowed | Action within 24 hours of a well-documented report |
| Malware hosting, command-and-control servers, botnets | Not allowed | Action within 24 hours of a well-documented report |
| Fraud that takes money from victims | Not allowed | Action within 24 hours of a well-documented report |
| Child sexual abuse material | Not allowed | Handled immediately, with a report to the competent hotline or authority |

## What counts as phishing and fraud?

Phishing is any page, message or domain built to make a person hand over credentials, card data or access by pretending to be someone else. Fraud is a scheme that takes money from victims, such as a fake shop, a fake investment or an invoice scam. Using a domain to impersonate a person or a company so as to deceive people falls in the same group.

Sending unwanted bulk email that carries phishing, malware or a fraud is covered by these rules too. The handling of email for a legitimate project, such as a newsletter to subscribers who asked for it, is not abuse.

## What counts as malware and botnets?

Malware is software distributed or controlled through the domain to damage systems or steal data without consent. A botnet is a network of compromised machines, and its command-and-control domains fall under this rule. Security research with the owner's consent, such as a test lab on your own machines, is not abuse.

## What about content complaints?

Complaints about copyright, defamation, political content or a competitor lead to no action on the complaint alone. It takes a decision that binds us. Trademark disputes about the name itself follow the UDRP, and we lock the domain within 2 business days of a request from a UDRP provider.

We do not tell you that your use of a domain is legal. You remain responsible for the laws that apply to you.

## What happens when the policy is breached?

We act on a well-documented report, which can mean suspending the domain or removing the records that serve the abuse. Domain protection adds a human review of every complaint before any action, but it does not change what counts as abuse. The reporting steps are on the [abuse page](https://postelva.com/abuse/ "How to report abuse on a Postelva domain"). The rest of your obligations, including payment and renewal, are in the [terms of service](https://postelva.com/legal/terms/ "Postelva terms of service"). If a report concerns a domain with Domain protection, a person reads it first. If it concerns a standard registration, the abuse desk handles it under the same timelines.

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