Limited Domain Name Server (DNS) Access - Our domain names are assigned to your campaign website via our domain registrar's DNS system. Access to the DNS is strictly limited to key BMD employees and strong passwords are changed on a regular basis. The chance of someone accessing the DNS and disrupting the association between the domain name and your website is extremely low.

Our Domain Registrations Cannot Not Accidentally Expire During Your Lease - Immediately upon leasing any of our domain names we extend the expiration date of our registration to be a minimum of two years in the future. This assures there is no chance of our accidentally losing the registration during the initial term or available renewal period of your lease.

Free Uptime Monitoring of Your Website - All websites experence occasional downtime due to network or server issues. Rarely are these outages related to DNS issues (the type BMD would cause) but are instead a result of network failures, website coding errors, and/or web server crashes. Regardless of cause, we want to help make your lease with us and your website's uptime worry-free! Using our monitoring provider, BinaryCanary.com, we will check your website every minute to ensure its online and serving your voters. If it has failed, you will be notified according to an escalation plan that you have designed.

Optional DNS Control Transfer To You - We'll temporarily transfer control of your leased domain's DNS to you through a 3rd party escrow company. How does that work?

• You approve the Ballot Measure Domains Lease Agreement and pay the full lease amount which will include a $50/domain escrow processing fee.
• Ballot Measure Domains initiates an escrow via eCOP.com.
• A copy of the escrow agreement is sent by email to you and BMD.
• We both approve the escrow agreement.
• BMD pays eCOP and transfers the domain(s) to them.
• ECOP updates the DNS of the leased domains per your current (and future) instructions. (Note: Sub-leasing and/or contract assignment are not permitted.)
• Once the lease term has expired the domains are transferred back to BMD by eCOP.