Domains. Russia: the auction will not

Coordination Center for TLD. RU intends to introduce a fixed rate for the registration of Cyrillic domain names. Previously it was assumed that after completion of phase priority registration of domain names will be distributed in the Dutch auction with a starting price of 10 million rubles. The rate proposed for the Coordinating Board meeting - 5 thousand rubles. New rules for registration. Russia is supposed to develop up to 30 September 2010. Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) is dissatisfied with the tariff - officials believe that the announced price is high for end users. In fact, the official cost of registration in the zone. RU is 600 rubles, while technically the procedure is virtually identical. In the case of adoption of new rules (as in the preservation of the Dutch auction model) Coordination Center may be fined for violating Part 1, Section 1, Art. 10 of the Law "On Protection of Competition." According to the newspaper Kommersant, citing Andrei Kolesnikov, Director of the Coordination Center for TLD. RU, it is expedient to hold a high price as long as there is no registered at least 100 thousand Cyrillic domains. Such a measure designed to protect the Cyrillic domain on kibeskotterov. Aimed at protecting consumers and policy priority registration of the domain. RF - and limitations significantly reduce the activity of potential administrators of domain names. Processing of applications for Cyrillic domain started in November 2009, at the end of June 2010 in. Russia has appeared more than 13,8 thousand of second level domains. Meanwhile, in the zone. RU month there are nearly 95 thousand domain names.