Buyer Information
How to Enter Auction?
How to Change a Bid?
How to Withdraw from Auction?
Auction Closing. Determining the Auction Winner
Auction Closing. Domain Payment
How to Enter Auction
- If you are not yet registered in RU-CENTER, please fill in the form on our site. If you have already concluded a Service Agreement with RU-CENTER, make use of it.
- Put a deposit to the personal account. The deposit amounts to 59 USD (tax included) for auction participation for each domain name. The procedure of account recharging is described on web-server www.nic.ru in Prices and Payments section.
- Generate (on web-server auction.nic.ru) a bidding request for a domain name auction. The form is generated by the Buyer in section "My Auctions" - "Domain Auction: Buyer Profile" (link "Enter Auction on a New Domain"), or on home page auction.nic.ru (link "Buy domain").
After the above actions have been done, your bid specified in the bidding request will be registered in the auction, and you will be duly notified thereof by e-mail.
Bids are to be placed in conventional money units. Dollar equivalent of a conventional money unit equals to 1 (one) US dollar.
How to Change a Bid
When you enter the auction, the bid indicated by you in the bidding request is always registered as your first bid. The bid can be changed only in the course of the auction, after the previous bid has been registered and if only your bid is not the Best bid at the current moment.
The bid can be changed manually or through a proxy bidding.
The following actions are to be taken to change the bid manually:
- log in to web-server auction.nic.ru;
- in menu "My Auctions" select item "Domain Auction: Buyer Profile " - "Auctions: Active";
- find the required domain in the list of active auctions' bids and click on the domain name;
- enter the required bid value into field "New bid" and click on "Enter". New bid shall not exceed the Best bid for a value more than the auction increment. The auction increment ranges from 20 to 50 conventional money units. If a Blitz price is published in the auction, it is allowed to place the bid at the value equal to the Blitz price.
Proxy bidding
If you know the maximum price, which you are ready to offer for a domain, and if you wish your bid to increase automatically during the auction up to a certain desired value, enter that value in the "Maximum bid" field and the proxy bidding will be increasing your bid automatically. The proxy bidding will bid up with a minimum possible auction increment, and if only your bid is not the Best bid.
How to Withdraw from Auction
You may withdraw from the auction only if the bid placed by you is not the Best bid or Second bid among all Buyers' bids.
The following steps are to be taken to withdraw from the auction:
- log in to section "My Auctions" on web-server auction.nic.ru;
- select menu item "Domains Auction " - "Auctions: Active";
- find the required domain in the list of your bids on active auctions and click on the domain name;
- click on "Withdraw from auction".
Auction Closing. Determining the Auction Winner
- The auction Winner and the Bidder who offered the Second bid are defined upon auction closing. If the Auction Winner fails to fulfil payment obligations, the domain name purchase right is transferred to the Bidder offering the Second bid, who thereby becomes the Auction Winner. RU-CENTER notifies thereof the former by e-mail.
- Data on auction results and follow-up actions will be communicated to all Bidders.
- The invoice is drawn up and sent to the auction Winner for payment:
- if the Buyer is a legal entity or sole trader - within 3 business days;
- if the Buyer is a natural person - upon his request.
- Expected payment time by the Auction Winner:
- The Auction Winner shall effect payment for purchasing the domain name within 10 (ten) calendar days from the moment of sending him/her notification that he/she is the Auction Winner.
Payment is deemed to be made when the funds are received on RU-CENTER account and RU-CENTER has received payment identifying documents from the bank.
- If the Auction Winner fails to fulfil payment obligations, the domain name purchase right is transferred to the Buyer who offered the Second Bid.
- RU-CENTER shall transfer the domain name to the Auction Winner no later than 3 (three) business days from the day, when the auction Winner fulfils payment obligations.
Auction Closing. Domain Payment
A Buyer may use one of the below options to pay for the domain (the deposit amount is accounted for when making payments from the contract personal account):
- against the invoice:
- by bank transfer
- by cash in RU-CENTER office
- from your personal account.
In the last case you shall have enough funds (including the deposited sum) on your personal account and agree to withdraw them to pay for the domain. You may grant your consent to pay in section "My auctions".
