Suspending and Deleting Domains

Cancelling Domain Delegation due to Non-Payment
Domains Deletion
Switching off domain at Registrant's will
Domain removal at Registrant's will

Cancelling Domain Delegation for Non-Payment

If the service renewal fee is not paid before the service expiration term, the service is suspended (delegation is canceled) next day after the date specified in paid-till in Whois service. If the scheduled date of domain disabling falls on a week-end or a holiday, the domain is disabled on the second working day after a week-end.

Within a 90 or 30 days period after the service expiration term, subject to registration expiry date, the Registrant retains the possibility to pay for its renewal. If payment is made, the service will be resumed.

Domains Deletion

A third-level domain registration will be canceled (the domain will be released), if it is not renewed within:

• 90 (ninety) calendar days from the registration expiry date. The specified period is valid for the domains to expire before March 31, 2012 inclusive;
• 30 (thirty) calendar days from the registration expiry date. The specified period is valid for the domains to expire after March 31, 2012.

Scheduled Domains Release Date The domain is deleted one day after the scheduled domain release date, if the date of deletion (free-date+1) is not a holiday or a weekend, or the next day after a holiday or weekend (otherwise deletion is carried out on the second day after a weekend).

Switching off third level domain at Registrant's will

During the whole service term the Registrant can switch on/off a domain. To do so, in the "Services" section of the "Manage your account" section one should:

• Select "Review and update data" in the "Services" menu,
• Choose the "Switch service on/off" link on the "Modify parameters" column,
• On the "Modify active service's parameters" page press the "Switch service on/off" key.

Switching off a service does not involve changing its term of rendering.

Third level domain removal at Registrant's will

If the domain registration service is paid for, it can be removed on the basis of an official letter from the Registrant. There is no refund for cancelled services.

Domains may not be deleted by fax copies.

• for a legal entity:
  • letter for domain deletion (in HTML; RTF formats);
    Note: If are not an identified client, you will be required to undergo identification procedure
• for a natural person or enterpreneur:
  • letter for domain deletion (in HTML; RTF formats);
  • copy of a passport.

Rules of drawing up letters (for non-residents)

A letter should be brought to the office or sent by mail to:

p.o. box 123308, 2/1, 3d Khoroshevskaya str., Moscow, Russia
RU-CENTER

When RU-CENTER receives an official letter (only originals are accepted), changes in the database will be made in two workdays. Information about relevant changes will be sent to addresses, set forth in the database.

Registration of Soon-to-Release 3-rd Level Domains through RU-CENTER

The requests for registration of geodomains or .COM.RU, .NET.RU, .ORG.RU, .PP.RU domains released from the Registry may be submitted at www.nic.ru server in "Manage your account" panel, or at auction.nic.ru server anytime before the domain is deleted from the Registry according to Domain Backorder Service for SU, COM.RU, NET.RU, ORG.RU, PP.RU domains and geodomains.

On the day of domain deletion, the request for domain registration is accepted only through the web interface at https://fd.nic.ru. In this case:

• RU-CENTER will accept the request that is being processed at the moment the domain becomes released.
• The introduced changes will be notified to the Domain Owner through the contact addresses specified in the database.