Backorderers Information

Auction Start
How to Change a Bid
How to Withdraw from Auction
Auction Closing. Determining the Auction Winner
Payment Procedure

Auction Start

If your backorder is a single one and RU-CENTER managed to register a domain in the Registry upon its release, the clients applying for this particular domain will face a closed auction.
RU-CENTER will inform you of the auction starting moment, its terms and conditions via e-mail. This information will be also available 24 hours prior to starting auction on web-server www.auction.ru (section "My Auctions" - "Backordered Domains Auction" - "Auctions: active").
At the auction starting moment your bid and same of other clients will be automatically placed to 30 conventional money units. A conventional money unit is equal to 1 (one) US dollar.
The bids of the clients, who were first and second to have made their orders ready-to-process by the auction start, will be deemed the Best Bid and Second Bid respectively.

How to Change a Bid

You may change your bid in course of the auction. A new bid shall exceed the Best Bid for an auction increment and be a round number. The auction increment ranges from 5 to 50 conventional money units.

The bid may 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 www.auction.nic.ru, using administrative password;
• in menu "My Auctions" select item " Backordered Domains Auction" - "Auctions: Active";
• find the required domain in the list of active auctions and click on the domain name;
• enter the required bid value into field "New bid" and click on "Enter".

The auction can be prolonged in the cases envisaged by the Auction Schedule. The auction closing moment is determined to the exact minute. Keep track of the auction status and wait until "Auction closing" message appears.

Proxy bidding

If you know the maximum price you are ready to offer for a domain, and if you want 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 auction increment and if only your bid is not the Best bid.

How to Withdraw from Auction

You may withdraw only in auction progress, if your bid is not the Best or the Second Bid.

The following steps are to be taken to withdraw from the auction:

• log in to section "My Auctions" on web-server auction.nic.ru, using administrative password;
• select menu item "Backordered 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".

Upon withdrawal from the auction the deposit blocked on your personal account will be released and may be used as payment for other services.

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 fulfill 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 means of communication channels.
• Data on auction results and follow-up actions will be communicated to all Bidders and Partners to the addresses specified in their contracts with RU-CENTER.
• RU-CENTER will expect money receipt from 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. Auction Winners will be announced thereof through contact addresses specified in the client's contract.
  • If the Auction Winner fails to effect payment for the won domain name within the set period, the client who offered the second bid is entitled to buy this domain.
• RU-CENTER shall transfer the domain name to the Auction Winner no later than 3 (three) business days upon domain payment.
• If the Auction Winner, who offered the Second Bid, failed to pay for the domain within the set period, the auction will be deemed closed and RU-CENTER is entitled to use the domain name at its own discretion.

Payment Procedure

Payment for the domain by the Auction Winner is deemed to be made by transfer to the contract account. How to recharge Personal Account

Money for domain payment will be blocked on the Auction Winner's contract account, provided the following conditions are met:

• the amount available on the personal account is enough to pay for the domain name (net of deposit);
• Auction Winner confirmed his/her readiness to pay for the domain name;
• there are no services available on the Auction Winner's contract account, requiring money blocking for their renewal.

The blocked funds will be automatically withdrawn on the last payment day of the term set for the Auction Winner. In this case the domain is deemed paid and the deposit is released from the personal contract account.

The Auction Winner may pay for the domain prematurely. For money premature withdrawal the Auction Winner will be required to:

• log in to section "My Auctions" on web-server www.auction.nic.ru , using administrative password;
• select menu item "Backordered Domains Auction " - "Auctions: pending payment";
• select the required domain and press link "Change Payment Terms";
• select option "Pay now".

Upon obtaining Auction Winner's confirmation for immediate domain payment, the money blocked for domain payment will be withdrawn from the Auction Winner's contract account within one calendar day. The domain is thereby deemed paid and the deposit is released from the personal account.
The Auction Winner may refuse to pay for the domain until money is withdrawn from the personal account. To refuse payment, the Auction Winner will be required to:

• log in to section "My Auctions" on web-server www.auction.nic.ru , using administrative password;
• select menu item "Backordered Domains Auction " - "Auctions: pending payment";
• select the required domain and press "Change payment terms";
• select option "Reject payment".

Should the Auction Winner refuse to pay for the domain, the money blocked for domain payment will be released and will not be withdrawn from the personal account. The Auction Winner may resume his/her consent to pay for the domain in the "My Auctions" section on web-server www.auction.nic.ru up to expiry of the domain set payment term. If the Auction Winner failed to pay for the domain within the set period, the deposit will be withdrawn from the Auction Winner's personal account as a fee from RU-CENTER'S expenses for the client's bidding.