RU-CENTER
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| Type: | Private |
| Industry: | Registrar |
| Ownership: | RosBusiness Consulting |
| Headquarters: | Russia, 125315, Moscow, Leningradsky prospekt, d.74, korp.4 |
| Country: | Russia |
| Businesses: | RU-NIC,JSC,NIC Media LLC |
| Email: | ru-cont[at]nic.ru |
| Website: | NIC.ru |
| Blog: | RU Blog |
| Facebook: | RU-CENTER |
RU-CENTER is a leading ICANN accredited registrar and hosting services provider throughout Europe and Russia. It has been in business for over 10 years now and has about 2M registered domain names. The company offers domain parking, reseller program and domain auction services besides its basic hosting and domain registration programs.[1] The center participates in ICANN meetings and started publishing its local Domain Names Magazine in English in March 2011, for ICANN meeting in San Francisco.[2] RU-CENTER was one of the hosts of the meeting.[3] It also launched Russian Cultural and Linguistic Internet Domains-RUCLID for local communities in Russia and their betterment over the internet.[4]
RosBusiness Consultings acquired RU-CENTER in March 2011.[5]
RU-CENTER — Russia's leading registrar and hosting provider, the largest registrar for domains RU, SU, РФ. The company provides a full range of registration services and domain names support.
RU-CENTER was founded in 2000, at the beginning of the formation of a distributed domain name registration in Russia. The progenitor of RU-CENTER was the Russian Research Institute for Public Networks - an organization that stood at the origins of the Internet technologies in Russia. RU-CENTER - one of the oldest domain registrars in the country. Today the company supports more than 3 million of domain names, serves as the registrar for more than 30% of domains. RU, 60% of domains. SU and 60% of domains .РФ.
RU-CENTER has an extensive partner network - the company has over 6.000 partners in Russia and abroad. As the market leader, RU-CENTER launched Russia's first auction services (2007) and domain names parking (2008). In 2010 – 2011 under the New gTLD Program RU-CENTER has initiated the introduction of the domain .MOSCOW / .MOSKVA for the needs of the Russian capital, as well as domains for the cultural and linguistic communities represented in the country (project RUCLID). The ideas of creating a domain for Moscow's cultural and linguistic communities have become the first Russian start-up planned under the New gTLD Program.
RU-CENTER - a recognized expert in the domain name market. The company publishes the only industry magazine in Russia, "Domain Names". In addition, RU-CENTER created and maintaines the resource Info.nic.ru - the most popular Russian site devoted to the news of the domain industry. Among other company's information projects are the database of the Russian IP-addresses, the statistics website about the registration of the domain names. RU,. SU, .РФ.
RU-CENTER is actively involved in the global internet community, supporting the ICANN meetings and other international events. RU-CENTER experts are the part of the ICANN Working Groups.
Domain Names Magazine
Domain names magazine – the only Russian officially registered periodical edition regarding address system of the Internet and modern Internet technologies. First issue of the magazine was published in 2006. To 2009 the edition became quite well-known on the market and then it was officially registered as a periodical. Key topics of the magazine: current state and perspectives of DNS and secondary domain name market; technical and administrative management of the Internet; Internet-security; web-technologies. Since 2006 the edition is published twice a year by RU-CENTER. Each issue printed in about 10 000 copies. The magazine is for sale in RU-CENTER offices and on key Russian events regarding the Internet. Also it’s distributed among RU-CENTER partners and Russian governmental bodies. In 2011 the Magazine was for the first time translated in English and distributed during ICANN Meeting in San Francisco, having positive feedback from the ICANN community.
Editorial staff
- Executive editor: Alexander Venedioukhin
- Managing editor: Victoria Bunchuk
- E-mail: info@nic.ru
Supported TLDs
RU-CENTER is fully accredited with multiple organisations for registration of respective TLDs. These organizations and the TLDs supported by RU-CENTER are:
- Coordination Center for TLD in Russia in .ru and .pФ.
- The Foundation for Internet Development in .su.
- ICANN in .net, .com, .org, .biz and .info.
- VeriSign, Inc. in .cc, .name and .tv.
- doMEn, d.o.o. in .me.
- Telnic, Ltd. in .tel.
- dotMobi in .mobi.
- Tralliance in .travel.
- SITA in .aero.
- Afilias, Ltd. in .hn, .ag, .bz, .lc, .mn, .sc and .vc.
- RegistryPro in .pro.
.RF TLD
In November 2010, RU-CENTER was ordered by The Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service-FAS to return $8.5 million by illegal auction of .rf domains. RU-CENTER was accused of selling .rf domains without having the permission to do so, according to the laws of Russia for domain auction.[7]
References
External links
- http://www.nic.ru/en - RU-CENTER official website
- http://info.nic.ru - information resource about the domain industry
- http://dn.nic.ru/en - official website of the magazine "Domain Names"
- http://stat.nic.ru- domain registration statistics for RU, SU, РФ
- http://ipgeobase.ru - geography of the Russian IP-addresses
- http://domainmoscow.org - website about domains .MOSCOW/.МОСКВА
- http://ruclid.org - website about the cultural and linguistic domains in Russia