Domain disputes: who speculates in. Russia?

Mass protests against kiberskvotterstva "in the national domain zone. RF activity have led to" appropriate authorities ". Initially, the Federal antimonolnaya Service (FAS) announced its intention to investigate the activities of the six domain registrars, then the Coordination Center for TLD has suspended operations with domains registered company RU-CENTER. For 10 days, open registration in the area. Russia has appeared more than 500 thousand new domain names. Most domains have individuals and organizations who first filed an application for registration. But part of the domain (the ones claimed by several applicants) penetrated the closed auctions: desirable "name" for the site could not get the fastest and richest - he who pays the most. "Representatives of the Registrars say that these auctions are held in order to protect domains from cybersquatters and solely for the public good. But in the auction involved domain" prostitutki.rf "- now in his current price of $ 190 thousand on a concern for the end user can talk in relation to this domain? ", - said Andrei Kolesnikov, the head of the Coordination Center, at a press conference on November 22. The largest domain registrar Runet - the company RU-CENTER (JSC "Regional Network Information Center) - meets in closed auctions for several years (eg, for domains. RU with an expired registration.) Number Cyrillic domains. RF exposed to closed auctions registrar currently undisclosed (by some estimates, we are talking about tens of thousands of domain names). Currently, all transactions with "auction" domains suspended. As reported at the Coordinating Center, "freezing" will last until the end of the trial of the disputed domain name. According to Andrei Kolesnikov, if no violations of the registration process is not found, the process of auctions will resume. Judging by the other public statements made by the Coordination Centre, a return to a policy of closed auctions improbable - say, this method of distribution rights to the domain name violates the rules concerning the registration of domain names in. Russia and the Accreditation Agreement. It is worth noting that the history of the disputed domain name (where the names that received multiple applications are processed at the registrar and the auction house) since last week investigating the FAS. In addition, in the early days of open enrollment, some "end-users' stated willingness to court controversy with" bad "domain registrars. As a result of such proceedings, the dubious title of "speculators" can get not only domain administrators have registered popular addresses to resale, but also accredited domain registrar. RF, recorded on a huge number of domain names in order to subsequently put them with a hammer. "