On 29 November, the CC’s Council held its regular meeting.
At the meeting, Andrey Kolesnikov, the CC’s CEO, elaborated on the theme of the top-level domain .ДЕТИ. As a reminder, the Coordination Center is considering an initiative to apply for the respective domain under the New gTLD program. According to A. Kolesnikov, domain .ДЕТИ will be an integrated registry with the focus on children. The mission of the domain is to promote and popularize websites for children and teenagers.
“Domain .ДЕТИ is an online space where young visitors, above all, amuse themselves, - notes Marina Nikerova, the CC’s Council Chairperson. – The new domain is intended for educational and edutainment content, which should be amusing and, at the same time, safe for the young online audience. Safety in domain .ДЕТИ is mostly a matter of technology.”
To that end, the Coordination Center decided to create a non-profit Smart Internet Foundation and approved its Charter, as well as the foundation’s financial structure. Specifically, it was decided that the foundation would assume regulation of activities of organizations in domain .ДЕТИ, as well as drafting and submission of an application for the domain to ICANN. In the future, the foundation will be incorporated to administer domain .ДЕТИ according to the procedures under the New gTLD program.
In the format of the meeting, the CC’s Council approved the CC’s 2012 budget and discussed AOB.
