Registrars received 562 requests for domain name termination from competent organizations in February 2018. The information comes from the latest monthly competent organizations’ report published on the Coordination Center for TLD .RU/.РФ website.
Domain-violators were analyzed by the type of detected malicious activity. In the reporting period the highest number of requests (366) concerned domains that spread malware. It is followed by phishing resources (195 requests) and botnet controllers (1 request).
During the reporting period 551 domain names’ delegation was suspended at the request of competent organizations. 11 domain names’ delegation was not suspended because administrators of the domains immediately eliminated the reasons for blocking (or the resource was blocked by the hosting provider).
At the moment, 535 domain names remain blocked; in 16 cases domain were re-delegated upon the request of the corresponding competent organization after the reasons for suspension were eliminated.
We remind that the Coordination Center for TLD .RU/.РФ introduced the practice of cooperation with organizations competent in determining violations on the Internet in 2012. These are the companies that give the Coordination Center and accredited registrars information on resources with illegal content, phishing cases, unauthorized access to information systems and distribution of malicious programs using domain names in .РФ and .RU zones. Registrars have a right to terminate delegation of such resources.
At the moment, there are eight competent organizations that cooperate with the Coordination Center – Safe Internet League, Group-IB, Kaspersky Lab, RU-CERT, Regional Public Centre for Internet-Technologies (ROCIT), Roskomnadzor, OOO BIZon and the Central Bank of Russia. Any Internet user can report a detected case of domain name’s inappropriate use by reporting to the hotline of one of these organizations and the measures will be taken immediately.
