Registration for the 16th International Conference of ccTLD Registries and Registrars of the CIS, Central and Eastern Europe (TLDCON 2023), which is going to be held on September 11-13, 2023, has started. The Conference is organized by the Coordination Center for TLD .RU/.РФ.
After a three-year break, the Conference will again be held offline in the capital of Karelia, Petrozavodsk. TLDCON 2023 will take place at the Fregat Hotel on the shores of Lake Onega, and participants will also have access to a number of additional places to stay that were picked by the Center's event specialists. Some of them provide special conditions for Conference participants. More details in the Venue section.
Remote participants will be provided with videoconferencing for full access to the sections. Additionally, the live stream of all conference sessions will be available on the TLDCON 2023 website.
On September 11 - the conference's so-called "zero" day - speakers will meet with professors and students from Petrozavodsk institutions and colleges and deliver engaging lectures to them about the evolution of the Internet and domain space in Russia as well as the world. In the evening of this day, a welcome cocktail will take place, where we invite all participants of the conference.
September 12 and 13 are the working days of TLDCON 2023, and a tour of Petrozavodsk and its environs is planned in the afternoon of September 13.
Petrozavodsk is located in the northwest of Russia: it is 1,000 km away from Moscow, and 450 km from St. Petersburg. Getting here is easy: the railway station is situated near the city center, with about 20 trains arriving here daily. The travel time from Moscow is 11 hours, and 5.5 hours from St. Petersburg. There is also an airport half an hour away from the city; the travel time from Moscow is about 1.5 hours.
The conference program, as always, will be interesting, follow the news.
Registration for the conference will be open until September 10. Participation in the conference is free.
As a reminder, the Coordination Center for TLD .RU/.РФ has been holding international conferences of administrators and registrars of the CIS countries, Central and Eastern Europe since 2008.
