RU-CENTER
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| Type: | Private |
| Industry: | Registrar |
| Founded: | 2000 |
| Ownership: | RosBusiness Consulting |
| Headquarters: | Leningradsky prospekt 74 bld.4, Moscow, Russian Federation, 125315 |
| Country: | Russia |
| Businesses: | RU-NIC, JSC, NIC Media LLC, Domain Names Magazine |
| Email: | info[at]nic.ru |
| Website: | NIC.ru |
| Blog: | RU Blog |
| Facebook: | RU-CENTER |
| Key People | |
| Andrey Vorobyev, Sergey Gorbunov, Tatiana Khramtsova, Alexander Panov | |
RU-CENTER is Russia's leading registrar and hosting provider, as well as one of the oldest domain registrars in the country. It is the largest registrar for the .ru, .su, and .pФ domains. The company provides a full range of registration services and domain names support; in began offering the first auction services in 2007, and domain parking services in 2008.[1]
The company is recognized as an expert on the domain name market, and publishes Domain Names Magazine,[2] the only industry related publication in Russia. In addition, RU-CENTER created and maintains the resource Info.nic.ru,[3] which is the most popular Russian site devoted to domain name industry news. Among the company's other information projects are a database of Russian IP addresses[4] and a statistics website about the registration of the domain names .ru, .su, and .pФ.
RU-CENTER is actively involved in the global Internet community, supporting ICANN meetings and other international events. RU-CENTER experts take part in ICANN Working Groups.
History[edit | edit source]
RU-CENTER was founded in 2000, at the beginning of the formation of a distributed domain name registration in Russia. The progenitor of the RU-CENTER was the Russian Institute for Public Networks,[5] an organization that supported the origins of Internet technologies in Russia. Today, the company supports more than 3 million domain names, and serves as the registrar for more than 30% of .ru domains, 60% of .su domains, and 60% of .pФ domains. They have an extensive partner network, with more than 6,000 partners in Russia and abroad.[6]
From 2010 to 2011, under the New gTLD Program, RU-CENTER initiated the introduction of the domains .moscow/.mockba[7] for the needs of the Russian capital, as well as domains for the cultural and linguistic communities represented in the country (project RUCLID).[8] The idea of creating a domain for Moscow's cultural and linguistic communities has become the first Russian start-up planned under the New gTLD Program.
In November 2010, RU-CENTER was ordered by The Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) to return $8.5 million, earned through the 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.[9] The trial is still continuing.
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 for .ru and .pФ.
- The Foundation for Internet Development for .su.
- ICANN for .net, .com, .org, .biz, and .info.
- VeriSign, Inc. for .cc, .name, and .tv.
- doMEn, d.o.o. for .me.
- Telnic, Ltd. for .tel.
- dotMobi for .mobi.
- Tralliance for .travel.
- SITA for .aero.
- Afilias, Ltd. for .hn, .ag, .bz, .lc, .mn, .sc and .vc.
- RegistryPro for .pro.