If you are in doubt about your choice, ask the UBC NMC for a suggestion. It is your responsibility to ensure that you have the right to use the name you have chosen. Registering a domain name does not confer any legal rights to that name. Any disputes between parties over the rights to use a particular name are to be settled between the contending parties using normal legal methods. Obscene names are not permitted.
Legal characters are letters, digits, and the hyphen.
You may mix upper and lower case, or use all upper or all lower case. Software will ignore case, and users can type in whatever case they like. You should capitalize your subdomain name as you wish it to appear in machine generated lists, such as the return address generated in your outgoing electronic mail. Hyphens may be used to separate words if necessary or consistent with normal references to the proper name of your organization. The UBC.CA domain registrar is the final authority on all matters relating to registration and subsequent use of your subdomain name.