The second day of the EE DNS Forum opened with the section “Priorities In DNS Industry: Is It All About Security?” moderated by APTLD General Manager Leonid Todorov. Director of the Coordination Center for TLD .RU/.РФ Andrei Vorobyev spoke about the center’s priorities in the next years. He also noted that today the players on the domain market should look for new approaches to strategic planning: “The discussion of various issues and decision-making mechanisms should be adjusted, because now these processes take a long time. This topic will be among the main ones during the regional strategic section on Eastern Europe and Central Asia, which will take place during the ICANN conference in Abu Dhabi at the end of October.”
Sergey Kopylov, Deputy CEO for Legal Affairs of the Coordination Center for TLD .RU/.РФ, took part in the section “Legal Issues in DNS Industry.” He spoke about the main trends in the legal framework in the domain sector and local regulatory issues. According to Kopylov, the most important problem now is how to organize work with personal data. “Receiving information about the domain’s administrator is the biggest difficulty now. In fact, very few organizations have enough rights to determine the source of such information. Another area of work is cooperation with courts. As a rule, when the Coordination Center is asked for its position on an issue, in response we not only provide our position, but also give a detailed background on how the domain registration system works in general. This helps to increase judges’ IT knowledge and minimize the number of mistakes,” Kopylov said.
In conclusion, Mikhail Anisimov, Deputy head of Information Department of the Coordination Center for TLD .RU/.РФ, spoke about the specifics of cooperation between the Coordination Center and registrars accredited in the .RU and .РФ domains during the section “Registries and Registrars: Regional View.” The differences he noted include a relatively small amount of registrars in Russia in comparison with European countries, as well as an unequal distribution of domains among registrars. Anisimov also shared his observations of changes in the registry’s role in the domain space: “Even the registries that do not provide services for end users more often cooperate directly with users on various issues, without registrars.”
