Terms and Сonditions for Domains Registration in RU and РФ TLD

The Coordination Center for TLD RU

The Terms and Conditions of Domain Names Registration in domains .RU and .РФ

Index of the document

Version
09.10.2011

Approved by decision
№ 2011-18/81 от 05.10.201

Effective date
11.11.2011

Status of document
mandatory

Cancelled (modified) by decision
 

Expiry date

The Terms and Conditions of domain names registration in domains .RU and .РФ (hereinafter referred to as the Terms and Conditions) regulate relations arising in connection with registration of second-level domain names in domains .RU and .РФ.
The present Terms and Conditions do not embrace relations associated with the content and/or dissemination of information addressed via domain names.

1. TERMS AND DEFINITIONS

1.1. Terms and definitions used in the present Terms and Conditions:

Administrator (Registrant) — the user under whose name the domain name has been registered in the Registry;

Administration —exercise by the Administrator of rights and obligations established by the present Terms and Conditions;

Registration cancellation — deletion of information on the domain name from the Registry;

Delegation of domain (Delegation) — placement and storage of information on the domain name and the relevant to it domain names servers on servers of the DNS top-level domain, which constitutes the necessary condition for the functioning of the domain addressing system in the Internet;

Domain - an area (string) of the hierarchical space of the Internet domain names system marked with a unique domain name and serviced  by a set of DNS servers;

Domain .РФ — the top-level domain with a unique name .РФ;

Domain .RU – the top-level domain with a unique name .RU;

Domain name – a character identification designated for the network addressing, in which the domain name system (DNS) is employed;

Coordinator — an authorized legal entity, which administers domains .RU and .РФ for the benefit of the Russian and global Internet community and organizes the functioning of the Registry;

Priority extension period – period after the expiration of the term of domain name registration during which the former administrator retains the right of extension of this term;

Support of information on the domain name —operations by the Registrar on entering, modifying and deleting information in the Registry relating to the domain name and the Administrator;

User – a private individual who commissions or uses services relating to domain names registration;

Extension of the domain name registration – entering information about extension of the domain name registration

Registrar – a legal entity accredited by the Coordinator for rendering domain names registration services in domains .RU and (or) .РФ;

Domain name registration — entering in the Registry information on the domain name, its Administrator, and other data established by the Terms and Conditions as an entry in the Registry;

Registry — the Coordinator’s database containing information on the registered second-level domain names, their Administrators and other necessary data;

The Coordinator’s website – the official website of the Coordinator in the Internet located at  http://cctld.ru or http://кц.рф;

DNS server — hardware-software complex ensuring translation of domain names into network addresses (IP addresses);

Stop list –the list of character identifications, whose registration as domain names is inaccessible.

1.2 The running of the time period established by the present Terms and Conditions shall be determined in accordance with the civil law of the Russian Federation. For calculation of the periods of time the Moscow time is used; excluded days are determined in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation.
The technical information, which reflects arrival of applications and modification of the Register, will use the universal coordinated time (UCT).

2. GENERAL PROVISIONS

2.1. Conditions and procedure of the provision of service related to the domain names registration are set forth by the Terms and Conditions and by the Contract on rendering the domain names registration services (hereinafter referred to as the Contract).

2.2. The Contract shall contain a reference to the page with the wording of the Terms and Conditions posted on the Coordinator’s website and a reference to the supremacy of the Terms and Conditions over the Terms and Conditions of the Contract.

2.3. The Contract between the Registrar and the Registrant shall be a public contract. Registrant may conclude a Contract with any Registrar.
Prices and other conditions of provision of services related to the domain names registration in each top-level domain may not depend on the second-level domain name chosen by the Registrant.

2.4. The Registrar is bound to provide Registrant with authentic and complete details on its name, residence (the legal and actual addresses), prices and other essentials of service provision.

2.5. The Registrant (Administrator) is bound to provide the Registrar with authentic information in the volume and following the procedures set forth by the Terms and Conditions and the Contract, as well as to notify the Registrar of changes in the information provided details and to submit to the Registrar, in a timely manner, supporting documents upon his request.

2.6. The Registrar’s requests and notifications dispatched at electronic mail addresses provided by the Registrant (Administrator) shall be considered duly sent.

2.7. The Registrar shall have the right to determine the procedure of execution, filing, processing and payment for applications by the Registrant (Administrator) as well as other conditions of exercise of actions provided for by the Terms and Conditions.
Requirements and provisions established by the Registrar may not contravene the Terms and Conditions.

2.8. The Registrar is bound to forward to the Registrant (Administrator) by means of electronic mail notifications of the applications processing results.

2.9. The Registrar may not independently decide on satisfying the third parties’ claims for the domain name.
A person suggesting that administration of the domain name by his/her Administrator abuses his/her rights (specifically, those of trade mark, brand name, other object of intellectual property, the name of a nonprofit organization or government body) may file a corresponding legal statement.

2.10. On the basis of judicial decisions on enforcement (cancellation) of interlocutory junction the Registrar enters in the Registry necessary information about established (cancelled) by the court of law judicial restrictions on operations with the domain name and dispatches copies of these judicial acts to the Coordinator.

2.11. The Registrar and the Coordinator shall not be held responsible before the Administrator for any actions aimed at fulfillment of the effective judicial act.

2.12. The Registrar shall be held responsible before the Administrator solely for actions directly proceeding from the essentials of the procedures related to registration and domain name support information. The Registrar shall not be held responsible for a possible break of the normal functioning of the domain names system resulting from technical peculiarities of the Internet and being beyond the Registrar’s control.

2.13. Where for the purposes of registration and (or) domain name administration the Registrant enters into contractual relations with third parties (intermediaries), then mutual rights and obligations of the Registrant and the Registrar set forth by the Terms and Conditions of the provision of services by the Registrar arise from the date the Registrar receives the Registrant’s application. At the same time, all the risks associated with the intermediary’s improper actions lack of action shall be borne by the Registrant, if not set forth otherwise by the effective law.

2.14. The Registrant shall have the right to engage third parties for interaction with the Registrants (Administrators), which does not acquit the Registrar from the obligations specified by the present Terms and Conditions.

2.15. The Registrant shall have the right to terminate the Contract with the Registrar. At the same time, the Registrar is bound to cancel registration of all the domain names whose information support the Registrar exercises per this Contract.

2.16. The Coordinator shall have the right to register domain names for the government needs and for execution of its Charter purposes. Registration and information support of the aforementioned domain names are exercised following the procedure determined by the Coordinator.

2.17. In the event of lack of action on the part of the Registrar in cases, which require urgent intervention, the Coordinator shall have the right to exercise certain or all functions, which are compulsory for the Registrar, with respect  to the registered domain name. At the same time, the Coordinator shall be held responsible before the Administrator and Registrar for its actions.

3. DOMAIN NAME REGISTRATION

3.1. Requirements to domain names

3.1.1. Domain name in domain .RU should consist of its own denomination, which is unique within the top-level domain, and characters ‘.ru’.
The denomination should meet the following technical requirements: it shall:

  1. contain no less than two characters;
  2. contain no more than 63 characters;
  3. begin and end with a letter or a digit;
  4. contain no characters different from letters, figures and a hyphen  (allowable characters are the letters of the Roman alphabet; capital and lowercase letters do not differ);
  5. contain no hyphens simultaneously in the third and forth positions.

3.1.2. Domain name in domain .РФ should consist of proper characters unique within top-level domain, and characters ‘.рф’
Proper characters should meet the following technical requirements: it shall

  1. contain no less than two characters;
  2. contain such a number of characters, which shall ensure that the denomination will not exceed 63 characters in  the algorithm PUNYCODE;
  3. begin and end with a letter or a digit;
  4. contain no characters different from letters, figures and a hyphen  (allowable characters are the letters of the Cyrillic alphabet including letter “ё”; capital and lowercase letters do not differ)

3.1.3. Whereas the Registrar may not refuse to register the selected by the Registrant domain name on the grounds not provided for by the present Terms and conditions, the Registrant (Administrator) shall be held responsible on his own for selection of the domain name and possible infringements of the third parties’ rights in relation to selection and usage of the domain name. As well, the Registrant shall bear the risk of losses associated with such infringements.
In the event the third parties bring a law suit against the Registrar (Coordinator) in connection with registration or usage of  the domain name by the Administrator, the Administrator is bound, on their request, to reimburse the Registrar (Coordinator’s) losses (including legal assistance and legal representation costs) incurred by the Registrar or Coordinator in conjunction with this lawsuit.

3.1.4. In order to prevent any prospective infringements, the Registrant is recommended, to ensure, prior to submission of his/her application, that there are no trade marks, brand names, and another objects of intellectual property, names of nonprofit organizations and government bodies similar to the domain name submitted for registration

3.1.5. The Registrant may not register domain names, which include words contradicting public interests, the principles of humanity or morality (in particular, words of obscene content, slogans of antihuman character, which insult human dignity or religious feelings, among others).

3.2. REGISTRATION PROCEDURE
3.2.1. Registration of the domain name registered exercised on the basis of the Registrant’ application on condition that he/she honors requirements of the present Terms and Conditions.
Prior to submission of the application for the domain name registration the Registrant is bound to familiarize himself/herself with the present Terms and Conditions.

3.2.2. The Registrar is bound to refuse domain name registration in the event:
1) the selected domain name have already been entered into the Registry ;
2) the selected domain name coincides with a definition included in the stop list;
3)  the selected domain name does not meet technical requirements set forth in the Terms and Conditions;
4) the Registrant failed to submit information about the Administrator in accordance with clauses 9.2.5.-9.2.7 of the Terms and Conditions and the Contract.

3.2.3. Whereas the registration system employs automated application processing tools, the Registrar has no technical possibility to exercise total screening of selected by the Registrant domain names for compliance with clause 3.1.3 of the present Terms and Conditions. However, upon a random screening the Registrar shall have the right to refuse registration of a domain name in the event it uses words contrary to public interests, principles of humanity or morality (in particular, words of obscene content, slogans of antihuman character, which insult human dignity or religious feelings, among others). At the same time, concurrently with the refusal of domain name registration, the Registrar shall have the right to dispatch a notification to the Coordinator to take a decision on entering the said denomination into the stop list.

3.2.4. Refusal to register a domain name registration on the grounds not provided for by the present Terms and Conditions is impermissible.
Upon the Registrant’s request, the Registrar’s shall give in writing the decision on refusal to register the domain name.
Where there are no grounds for refusal, the Registrar shall register the domain name within 3 (three) working days.

3.2.5. Where there are several applications for one and the same domain name, the Registrar shall satisfy that application, which was the first to meet the provisions set forth by the Terms and Conditions and the provisions of the Contract
The Registrar shall have no right to register domain name on its own name in the event it has got an application from the Registrant for the same domain name and which has met the provisions set forth by the Terms and Conditions and the provisions of the Contract.

3.2.6. In cases registration of the domain name failed to take place for some reason, the Registrar may not divulge information provided by the Registrant on his/her intention to register the domain name.

3.2.7. The domain name shall be considered registered since the date of entering the respective information in the Registry.
The right of administration comes into effect from the moment of registration of the domain name for the duration of the registration validity term.

3.3. REGISTRATION OF VACANT DOMAIN NAMES

3.3.1. The Registrar shall have the right to accept applications for registration of domain names which are in the preferential extension period (registration of vacant domain names).
Registration of the  domain name is exercised upon termination of the preferential extension period, provided the former administrator of the domain name has failed to extend  the domain name registration.

3.3.2. The Coordinator shall ensure equal opportunities for registration of the vacant domain name for all the users of all the Registrars, particularly by ensuring publication information about the time since which every Registrar has an opportunity to dispatch a request for registration of the vacant domain name.

3.3.3. Prices and other provisions for acceptance and processing of applications for  registration of vacant domain names in every top-level domain set by the Registrar  may not depend on the second-level domain name selected by the Registrant. At the same time, the Registrar shall have the right to set differentiated payment depending on the period left before the prospective date of cancellation of the registration.

3.3.4. The Registrar shall inform explicitly and fully the Registrants about prices and other conditions of acceptance and execution of applications for registration of vacant domain names. Requirements and procedures established by the Registrar may not contravene the present Terms and Conditions. Specifically, the Registrar may not restrict the circle of Registrants who may use the register vacant domain names registration service, or establish preferences for individual users or groups of users in obtaining information about the service.

3.3.5. Where there are several applications for one and the same domain name, the Registrar shall satisfy that application, which was the first to meet the provisions set forth by the Terms and Conditions and the Contract.

3.3.6. Clauses specified by the present Chapter shall be also applicable to denominations subject to exclusion from the stop list by the Coordinator’s decision.

3.4. STOP LIST

3.4.1. The Coordinator shall maintain the stop list that contains denominations, which are not accepted for registration of domain names because they include names which contradict public interests, the principles of humanity or morality (in particular, words of obscene content, slogans of antihuman character, which insult human dignity or religious sentiments, etc).

3.4.2. Introduction of denominations in the stop list and their exclusion therefrom is exercised upon the Coordinator’s decision.
The decision about exclusion of denomination from the stop list is posted on the Coordinator’s website no later than 30 days prior to its removal from the stop list date. Denomination becomes available for registration as a domain name following the procedure established for domain names whose registration is cancelled due to the expiration of the preferential extension period.

3.4.3. Public access to the information about the presence of a denomination in the stop list shall be exercised by means of the WHOIS service. The stop list in full shall be made available by the Coordinator upon a grounded request for scientific and research, and other analogous purposes.

4. DOMAIN NAME REGISTRATION VALIDITY PERIOD AND ITS EXTENSION

4.1. Domain name registration validity period is 1 (one) year.

4.2. The Administrator shall have the right to extend the domain name registration validity period for an unlimited number of times.
As a result of the extension of the domain name registration, the registration validity period may be extended for 1 (one) year from the expiry date of the previous registration validity period.

4.3. The Registrar shall forward to the Administrator by electronic mail the notification of the need to extend the registration validity period of the domain name no later than in 50-60 (fifty-sixty) days prior to the expiry date of the domain name registration validity period.

4.4. In order to extend the registration validity period of the domain name, the Administrator, the notification notwithstanding, shall forward the respective application to the Registrar not earlier then in 60 (sixty) days prior to the expiry date of the registration validity period of the domain name .

4.5. The previous Administrator shall be reserved the right to submit an application for the extension of the domain name registration until the expiration of the preferential extension period.
The duration of the preferential extension period is 30 (thirty) days after the expiry date of the registration validity period.
The Registrar shall forward to the Administrator electronic mail notifications about the need to extend the registration in 5-10 (five to ten) and 20- 25 (twenty to twenty- five) days after the expiry date of the registration validity period.
Where need be, the preferential extension period shall be extended in the event the Registrar receives a court ruling about the (interlocutory injunction, which bans cancellation of the domain name registration.

4.6. The Registrar shall accept the application for processing, providing all the requirements set forth by provisions of the Terms and Conditions and the Contract have been met.

4.7. Registrar shall process the Administrator’s application for extension of the domain name registration in the course of 1 (one) working day.

4.8. The Registrar shall not be held responsible for a successful processing of the Administrator’s application for extension of the registration validity period where the Administrator submits such an application on the last working day of the preferential extension period.

4.9. Where the domain name registration validity period was not extended, then the registration of domain name shall be cancelled upon expiration of the preferential extension period.

5. DELEGATION

5.1. The Registrar shall enter in the Registry information about the domain name delegation and information on the domain’s DNS servers, about termination of the delegation upon the Administrator’s application, as well as in other cases set forth by the present Terms and Conditions.

5.2. Application for domain name delegation shall be executed solely on condition the Registrar checked contact with the Administrator via the stored in the Registry telephone number with the SMS function.

5.3. The Administrator shall provide no less that two DNS servers of the delegated domain with a reliable connection to the Internet and round-the-clock operational mode in order to ensure resilience of the delegated domain.

5.4. Domain delegation established upon its Administrator’s application shall be terminated upon expiration of the domain name registration validity period.

5.5. The Registrar may terminate the domain name delegation on the basis of a decision in writing by a head (deputy head or equaled to him public official) of an agency, which exercises operational search actions.

5.6. The Registrar may terminate the domain name delegation in accordance with the provisions set forth by the Terms and Conditions upon revealing inauthenticity of the Administrator’s details entered in the Registry or where the Administrator fails to submit supporting documents for these details upon the Registrar’s request within the specified period (items 9.3.7. – 9.3.8 of the Terms and Conditions).

5.7. The Registrar may terminate the domain name delegation upon the receipt of a substantiated petition from an organization indicated by the Coordinator as a competent one to determine violations in the Internet, should the petition contain information about the domain’s information addressing system being used for:

  1. receipt from third parties (users  of the system) of confidential information by misleading these persons regarding its origin (authenticity) due to similarity of the domain names, design or content of the information (phishing);
  2. unauthorized access to third parties’(users, visitors)  information systems or for infecting these systems with  malware or taking control of  such software (botnet control);
  3. dissemination of materials with  pornographic images of the minors.

Upon the receipt of the request, the Registrar shall dispatch to the Administrator a notification with the text of the petition attached thereto and, where necessary, request from the Administrator the documents proving the information entered in the Registry and intended for identification of the Administrator. The Registrar shall resume the domain name delegation in accordance with the procedures set forth by the Contract when the cause of termination of the domain name delegation has been eliminated.
The Coordinator shall post the list with competent organization on its official website.

5.8. The Registrar shall immediately notify the Administrator of termination of delegation electronic mail.

5.9. In case of termination of delegation of the domain name established by the Administrator due to the expiration of the domain name registration validity period, the Registrar shall designate for the domain provisional DNS servers, which will re-direct requests by http protocol to the Registrar’s official website with information regarding the reason for termination of delegation, providing the Administrator has not refused such redirecting prior to expiration of the domain name registration validity period.

5.10. The Registrar shall not be held responsible before the Administrator and third parties for damages inflicted by termination of delegation as per the present Terms and Conditions.

6. TRANSFER OF THE ADMINISTRATION RIGHTS

6.1. The Administrator shall have the right to transfer the right to administer the domain name to another person within the domain name registration validity period (except the periods stipulated in clause 6.5 of the present Terms and Conditions) by dispatching a request in writing to the Registrar who exercises domain name information support.

6.2. The person who receives the domain administration right of shall conclude with the Registrar, who exercises the domain name information support, a Contract on rendering the domain name registration services and confirm his/her consent for accepting the administration right in accordance with the said Contract.
The Registrar shall satisfy the administrator’s application on transfer of the domain name administration right within 3 (three) working days upon receipt of application, conclusion of a Contract with the person to whom the administration right is transferred and upon the person accepting the administration right giving consent for receiving the administration right.

6.3. Prior to the processing of  the application for the transfer of the administration right, the Registrar shall have the right to screen details about the Administrator entered in the Registry by suspending the processing of the application until completion of the screening in accordance with e clause 9.3.6 of the present Terms and Conditions.

6.4. The right to administer the domain name shall be considered transferred from the moment of modification of information of the domain name Administrator in the Registry.

6.5. Transfer of the domain name administration rights is not allowed:

  1. in case of termination of the domain name registration validity period;
  2. within 30 days from the date of receipt by the Administrator of the administration right from another person;
  3. within 30 days from the date of change of the Registrar exercising the domain name information support;
  4. in case the domain name coincides with the denomination included in the stop list;
  5. in case of failure to execute the Registrar’s request to submit details and documents within a specified timeline in accordance with clause 9.3.7 of the Terms and Conditions.

7. REASSIGNMENT OF THE DOMAIN NAME INFORMATION SUPPORT

7.1. The Administrator shall have the right to reassign the information support of the domain name to another Registrar within the domain name registration validity period (except periods indicated in clause 7.8 of the present Terms and Conditions).

7.2. The Registrar who exercises the domain name information support shall have no right to charge the Administrator for reassignment of information support to another Registrar.

7.3. The Registrar to whom the domain name information support is reassigned shall have no right to refuse executing the domain name information support, except for cases when the Registry contains inauthentic information about the Administrator or the Registrar considers that the domain name registration has been exercised with violation of the present Terms and Conditions.

7.4. In order to reassign information support of the domain name:

  1. the Administrator concludes a Contract on rendering the domain names registration services with a newly selected Registrar and dispatches to the current Registrar an application for reassignment of domain name information support;
  2. the current Registrar shall do what is required to reassign the domain name information support to the Registrar named in the application within 3 (three) working days upon receipt of the application from the Administrator;
  3. the Registrar to whom the domain name information support is reassigned shall enter the respective information in the Registry within 5 (five) working days from the moment of execution by the Administrator of the Contract of requirements and receipt from the Registry of information about the current Registrar’s readiness for reassigning the information support.

7.5. Prior to the processing of the application for the transfer of the administration rights, the Registrar shall have the right to screen the Administrator’s details stored in the Registry by suspending the processing of application until completion of the screening in accordance with clause 9.3.6 of the Terms and Conditions.

7.6. Where the Administrator failed to perform all actions required for reassignment of the domain name information support within 90 days from the moment of submission of the application to the Registrar, then the processing of the application is discontinued.

7.7. The domain name information support is considered to have been reassigned immediately upon the moment of entering the information in the Registry.

7.8. The Administrator shall have no right to reassign the domain name information support to another Registrar:

  1. in case of expiration of the domain name registration validity period;
  2. within 30 days from the date of receipt by the Administrator of administration rights from another person;
  3. within 30 days from the date of change of the Registrar exercising the domain name information support;
  4. in case of failure to execute the Registrar’s request to submit details and documents within a specified timeline in accordance with  clause 9.3.7 of the Terms and Conditions.

8. DOMAIN NAME REGISTRATION CANCELLATION

8.1. Registration of the domain name is subject to cancellation:
1) where the registration has been exercised with violation of technical requirements to the domain names effective as of the moment of registration;
2) where the domain name registration was exercised in violation of the Terms and Conditions effective as of the moment of  registration and was conjugated with the Administrator’s dishonest actions;
3) upon the end of the preferential extension period;
4) upon the Administrator’s application;
5) as per the effective judgment by the court of law;
6) in case of termination by the Administrator of the Contract with the Registrar exercising domain name information support;
7) in case the Administrator forbids a further processing of his/her personal data  exercised in accordance with the Terms and Conditions.

8.2. Whilst canceling the registration due to the Administrator’s dishonest actions at the time of registration of the domain name, the Registrar shall notify the Administrator about the pending cancellation 10 (ten) days prior to that.

8.3. The Registrar shall cancel the domain name registration within 3 (three) working days upon the Administrator’s application in writing.

8.4. Prior to the processing of the application for the transfer of the administration rights, the Registrar shall have the right to screen the Administrator’s details entered in the Registry by suspending the application processing until the screening is complete in accordance with clause 9.3.6 of the Terms and Conditions.

8.5. Registration of a domain name may not be cancelled upon the Administrator’s application:

  1. in case of termination of the domain name registration validity period;
  2. within 30 days from the moment of receipt by the Administrator of administration rights from another person;
  3. within 30 days from the moment of change of the Registrar exercising the domain name information support;
  4. in case of failure to execute the Registrar’s request to submit details and documents within a specified timeline in accordance with clause 9.3.7 of the Terms and Conditions.

9. INFORMATION ABOUT DOMAIN NAMES AND ITS USE

9.1. General provisions

9.1.1. The volume of information submitted by the Registrant (Administrator), the procedure for its receipt, storage and processing is determined by the Contract with account of provisions of the present Terms and Conditions.

9.1.2. The Registrar shall have no right to use information submitted by the Registrant (Administrator) for purposes not provided for by the present Terms and Conditions and the Contract.

9.1.3. Information about the domain name and its Administrator shall be submitted by the Registrar to the Registry in a volume set forth by the present Terms and Conditions.

9.1.4. The Registrar shall submit to the Coordinator information about the domain name and its Administrator in the volume required for:

  1. securing resilience of the registration system’s functioning, including the Registrar terminating execution of its functions (due to revoke of accreditation, bankruptcy, among others);
  2. screening of details entered in the Registry.

9.1.5. The Registrar shall have the right to provide information about the full denomination (name) of the Administrator and his/her location (domicile) upon a third parties’ substantiated request in writing from containing an obligation to use the received information exclusively for the purposes of bringing a court action.

9.2. Information in the Registry
9.2.1. Information in the Registry may be used to:

  1. confirm the domain name registration;
  2. identify the person, who is the domain name Administrator;
  3. identify the Registrar exercising the domain name information support;
  4. ensure addressing in the Internet;
  5. provide information about domain names in a volume and on conditions set forth by the effective law and the present Terms and Conditions;

9.2.2. In order to secure resilience of the registration system, all the data about modification of information in the Registry shall be stored in full  within the lifetime of a domain name registration and up to 25 years after its termination.

9.2.3. The Registrar and the Coordinator shall take necessary technical and organizational measures to protect information in the Registry from an unlawful access.

9.2.4. Stored in the Registry is:

  1. technical information including the one required for the registration system’s functioning;
  2. information designated for identification of an Administrator’s;
  3. contact information for communication with the Administrator;

9.2.5. The following information intended for identification of Administrators represented by private individuals shall be stored in the Registry:

  1. the surname, name, and patronymic;
  2. the date of birth;
  3. domicile;
  4. document details, which prove Registrant’s (Administrator’s) identity, (including series, number, date of issue of the document, and the name of the issuing authority).

9.2.6. The following information intended for identification of Administrators represented by legal entities shall be stored in the Registry:

  1. name in full;
  2. the Administrator’s name presented represented in characters of the Roman alphabet and other ASCII-7 characters;
  3. residence (legal address);
  4. the taxpayer’s identification number (for Russian corporations as well as for the foreign ones, which have it); the tax identifier or an identifier in the trade register (for foreign corporations not registered as taxpayers in the Russian Federation).

9.2.7. The following contact information intended for communication with the Administrator shall be stored in the Registry:

  1. postal address;
  2. Telephone number with the sms function;
  3. other telephone and/or telefax numbers (if any)
  4. electronic mail addresses.

9.2.8. The Registrar exercising the domain name information support shall provide information about the domain name stored in the Registry upon the domain name Administrator’s request.

9.3. Maintaining authenticity and control of information in the Registry
9.3.1. The Registrar shall establish the procedure of provision and examination of information provided by the Administrator.

9.3.2. In case of modification of the information subject to storage in the Registry, the Administrator shall immediately notify the Registrar of such modifications by dispatching to the latter a respective application. In case of modification of the information intended for identification, the Administrator shall provide the Registrar with  supporting documents proving the modifications. Applications for modification of information entered in the Registry shall be executed by the Registrar within 3 (three) working days from the date of receipt of the application and provision of required documents by the Administrator.

9.3.3. For delegated domains, modification of information on the telephone number with the sms function in the Registry shall be exercised solely upon examination the possibility to use this telephone number to communicate with the Administrator.

9.3.4. The Registrar shall have the right to examine submitted by the Administrator or stored in the Registry information relating to the domain name or the Administrator by requesting from the Administrator clarifications and/or supporting documents. The request should include a warning about consequences of a failure to honor it within a specified timeline. The request shall be dispatched to the Administrator by electronic mail.

9.3.5. The Administrator shall execute the request to provide clarifications and documents within 7 (seven) days from the date of dispatch of the request by the Registrar. The Registrar shall have the right to establish an additional timeline for submission of supporting documents upon the Administrator’s substantiated request.

9.3.6. The Registrar shall have the right to suspend processing of the Administrator’s applications for the change of the domain name Administrator, reassignment of the domain name information support, administration of the domain delegation, cancellation of registration of the domain name until the Administrator executes the request about provision of information and documents.

9.3.7. The domain name delegation shall be terminated where the Administrator fails to execute the request to submit details and documents within the specified timeline, and the Administrator’s requests relating to the domain name (including requests for extension of registration) shall not be executed until the request is executed.

9.3.8. The Registrar shall have the right to immediately terminate the domain name delegation by dispatching a notification of that to the Administrator by electronic mail in case of exposure of non-authenticity of the information intended for the administrator’s identification.

9.3.9. The Registrar shall at least once a year dispatch a notification to the Administrator on the need for examination of information about the Administrator stored in the Registry.

 9.4. WHOIS Service
9.4.1. WHOIS service is an automated service, which provides public access to the information about a domain name in a volume set forth in the Terms and Conditions.
9.4.2. Information provided by the WHOIS should include:

  1. the domain name (for domain names in domain .РФ – presentation of the domain name in the Punycode algorithm);
  2. information on the domain’s DNS servers;
  3. information on delegation of the domain name;
  4. the Administrator’s name in characters of the Roman alphabet and other ASCCII-7 characters (for legal entities) or indication to the domain ownership to a private individual  in the impersonal form (for private individuals);
  5. model address for sending the notification at the Administrator’s electronic mail address;
  6. the domain name registration date;
  7. the expiry date of the registration validity period;
  8. the expiry date of the preferential extension period;
  9. reference to the Registrar exercising the domain name information support;
  10. reference to the Registrar to whom information support of the domain name is reassigned (within the period of processing a support reassignment request)

10. SUSPENSION OF ACCEDITATION AND TERMINATION OF REGISTRAR’S ACTIVITY

10.1. In order to secure resilience of the Registry, the domain name registration system and to protect the Administrator’s rights, the Coordinator shall have the right to impose restrictions on the Registrar’s activity.

10.2. Where the Coordinator suspends the Registrar’s accreditation, the latter is forbidden to register domain names as well to receive domain name information support from other Registrars.
The information about this shall be posted on the Coordinator’s website within 3 (three) working days from the date of suspension (renewal) of accreditation.

10.3. Within the period of suspension of the Registrar’s accreditation the Coordinator shall also have the right to forbid the Registrar to perform any operations with domain names (except extension of the domain name registration validity period).
At the same time, under exceptional circumstances, Administrators’ applications for performing other operations with domain names, may be executed by the Registrar subject to the Coordinator’s consent for their execution.

10.4. In case the Registrar’s accreditation is terminated the Coordinator shall post a notification of this on its website, as well as dispatch the notification to domain name Administrators at electronic mail addresses stored in the Registry.

10.5. The domain name information support, which was exercised by the Registrar whose accreditation was terminated, shall be maintained by the Coordinator from the moment of termination of the accreditation. At the same time, the Coordinator shall not execute any requests from the domain names Administrators, except for reassignment of the domain name information support to one of the Registrars, including in particular within the period of the preferential extension of domain name.
The preferential extension period shall be suspended from the date the Coordinator takes the respective decision until completion of the procedure of reassignment of the domain name information support to one of the Registrars, but for no more than 60 days.

10.6. The Coordinator shall not be held liable for losses incurred by the Registrants (Administrators) due to restrictions imposed on the Registrar’s activity.

11. MODIFICATION OF THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS

11.1. The present Terms and Conditions can be modified by the Coordinator’s decision.
11.2. The Coordinator shall notify Registrars about introducing modifications into the present Terms and Conditions no later than 30 (thirty) calendar days prior to the modifications coming in effect.
11.3. The Registrar shall notify Registrants and Administrators of introduction of modifications into the present Terms and Conditions no later than 10 (ten) days prior to the modifications coming in effect.
11.4. All actions with domains and other actions provided for by the present Terms and Conditions should be exercised in compliance with the wording of the Terms and Conditions effective as of that moment of time.

 

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