RU-CENTER
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| Type: | Private |
| Industry: | Registrar |
| Ownership: | RosBusiness Consulting |
| Headquarters: | Russia, 125315, Moscow, Leningradsky prospekt, d.74, korp.4 |
| Country: | Russia |
| Businesses: | RU-NIC,JSC,NIC Media LLC |
| Email: | ru-cont[at]nic.ru |
| Website: | NIC.ru |
| Blog: | RU Blog |
| Facebook: | RU-CENTER |
RU-CENTER is a leading ICANN accredited registrar and hosting services provider throughout Europe and Russia. It has been in business for over 10 years now and has about 2M registered domain names. The company offers domain parking, reseller program and domain auction services besides its basic hosting and domain registration programs.[1] The center participates in ICANN meetings and started publishing its local Domain Names Magazine in English in March 2011, for ICANN meeting in San Francisco.[2] RU-CENTER was one of the hosts of the meeting.[3] It also launched Russian Cultural and Linguistic Internet Domains-RUCLID for local communities in Russia and their betterment over the internet.[4]
RosBusiness Consultings acquired RU-CENTER in March 2011.[5]
Supported TLDs[edit | edit source]
RU-CENTER is fully accredited with multiple organisations for registration of respective TLDs. These organizations and the TLDs supported by RU-CENTER are:
- Coordination Center for TLD in Russia in .ru and .pФ.
- The Foundation for Internet Development in .su.
- ICANN in .net, .com, .org, .biz and .info.
- VeriSign, Inc. in .cc, .name and .tv.
- doMEn, d.o.o. in .me.
- Telnic, Ltd. in .tel.
- dotMobi in .mobi.
- Tralliance in .travel.
- SITA in .aero.
- Afilias, Ltd. in .hn, .ag, .bz, .lc, .mn, .sc and .vc.
- RegistryPro in .pro.
.RF TLD[edit | edit source]
In November 2010, RU-CENTER was ordered by The Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service-FAS to return $8.5 million by illegal auction of .rf domains. RU-CENTER was accused of selling .rf domains without having the permission to do so, according to the laws of Russia for domain auction.[7]