Moscow, 30 September 2010 - The Coordination Center for ccTLD .RU Board has taken a decision on the date of the open registration period in ccTLD .РФ. Effective 11 November 2010 any citizen of the Russian Federation and legal entity registered in the RF will be able to register an own domain name in ccTLD .РФ. The Board meeting also discussed the format for the open registration procedure.
At the meeting, the CC’s Board addressed various conceivable scenarios for the open registration period, in particular, a price increase for the registration period or restricting the number of domain names to be registered by one applicant. At the end of the day the CC’s Board by the two-stage ballot approved the following procedure for the open registration period: registration of domain names in ccTLD .РФ will start at midday 11 November 2010. Registration will be available solely for the RF citizens as well as legal entities registered in Russia. Change of the domain name administrator will be banned during one year from the date of the domain name registration in the Cyrillic domain .РФ.
“Both restrictions will have a temporary effect,- says Mr. Andrey Kolesnikov, the CC’s director.- Most likely these restrictions will be lifted later on.” Also the CC’s Board decided to create a stop-list for ccTLD .РФ. In particular, the use of domain names with obscenities therein will be prohibited. The stop-list will include domain names which are under court proceedings. At present the CC’s Board considers dissemination of the stop-list among registrars.
In the light of the upcoming launch of the open registration period an important issue is the cost of the domain name in the Cyrillic sector. “The price for the domain name is determined by the market, - clarifies Ms. Marina Nikerova, first deputy director general of the Internet Technical Center and the Board member, - the registrars set their prices independently and compet ,while the CC does not regulate prices but monitors abidance by the rules regarding delegation and support of domain names. The same policy is effective with regard to domain names in ccTLD .RU and it will not change as far as ccTLD .РФ is concerned”
“Our objective is to ensure equal opportunities with respect to the domain names registration procedure in ccTLD .РФ both for individuals and the Internet-business professionals, - asserts Mr. Andrey Kolesnikov, - that’s exactly why we have turned down several versions of the open registration procedure. For example, restriction of domain names number which can be registered per one individual. Such restrictions are easy to dodge which means there is no use in them.”
According to Mr. Andey Kolesnikov’s forecast, already by spring 2011 ccTLD .РФ will become home to about 100 thousand domain names.