«ccTLD.RU: regulation» Pavel Khramtsov ([email protected])[email protected] Moscow-2008

«ccTLD .RU: regulation»

Pavel Khramtsov ([email protected])

Moscow-2008

mailto:[email protected]

Храмцов

Доклад подготовлен для конференции регистратур и регистраторов стран Восточной Европы и СНГ.Основная мысль доклада состоит в оценке рисков бурного развития домена .RU

RU-CENTER - центр регистрации доменов www.nic.ru

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The Russian Legislation Participants of the domain registration

process Business regulation rules Registrant-Registrar Agreements forms Violations and Practical examples

Focus: registration & delegation

High lights


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ccTLD .RU regulation (from 2001)


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There is no law which specifically dealswith the use of domain names, although wehave laws protecting trade marks andprotecting competition in business:

Part IV of the Civil Code of Russian Federation protects rights of a trade mark ownerRussian Law on Protection of CompetitionRussian Law on Personal Data

Applicable Law


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Issue of a consideration:Infringement of a trade mark owner rightsUnfair competitionAbuse of rightsCourt established that:Domain names, that consists of trade mark or firm name,have a commercial valueChoosing and registration of vw.ru domain name and itsoffer for selling is a form of an unfair competitionThe use of the domain name is damaging businessreputation of the PlaintiffAbsence of any information on the site vw.ru is not sufficientevidence for its not usingThe use of the trade mark in the domain name is an abuse of right

Practical example: dispute on domain name vw.ru *

* The coordination centre of the ccTLD .RU


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Recapture – registration of a trade mark primarily to obtain aspecific existing domain name from its current administratorwho has registered and uses domain name in good faithbefore the registration of trade mark• Identifiers cannot be registered as trademarks if they are thesame as, or confusingly similar with domain name rights towhich arose in the Russian Federation for other personsearlier than the priority date of the trademark registration(Part IV of the Civil Code)• There is one court decision concerning recapture – firmnamed Elec.ru, LLC vs. domain name elec.ru

This court decision was made before the enactment of Civil Court PartIV

Recapture Protection in Russian legislation*



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Conflict with the traditional regulation on identifiers, on the onehand, and with the domain name regulation system, based on aprinciple «first come first served», on the other hand• Nowadays we have about 200 domain name disputes in Russia• 90% cases – disputes in relation with .RU domain names, a few - in.ORG, .INFO, .COM, .SU• Most cases are heard in arbitrage courts (Russian courts forcommercial disputes)• We have one court decision that abolishes WIPO Arbitration andMediation Center decision - denso.com: the court recognizes thatsettlement of intellectual property disputes through the WIPOCenter cannot be considered as an appropriate arbitration trialaccording to the Russian law

Current practice *



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According TLD .RU Registration Terms & Conditions it is up to the user to consider whether the registration or use of the domain name leads to the infringement of any rights of third parties

Registrar discloses administrators contact data, if there is a legitimate reason, on written request of the third party

Any actions with a domain name are blocked during the domain name dispute («hold on» policy)

Delegation removing is possible in case of unreliable personal data (10 day under request)

Registration removing shout be executed in case of impossibility registrant identification procedure (after 3 months after delegation removing)

Registrar regulation

domain cycle (1 year + 33 days)domain cycle (1 year + 33 days)

Auctions; Parking

Auctions; Parking

Domain return

(3 months)

Domain return

(3 months)

Deferred payment (4 months)

Deferred payment (4 months)

Back-orderBack-order

Delegation removing or information page

demonstration

Delegation removing or information page

demonstration


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Domain life cycle in .RU

Moment of the InterceptionMoment of the Interception


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Participants of the registration process

(Business partners & Business packages)

Price established by .RUAdministration

Price established byregistrar

Price established byReseller

~$20

To/fromRegistry


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The agreement in writing(any permitted actions)

The agreement of the public offer(The initial registrations only &…A lot of problems with registrant identification)

Agreement form


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New registrations in October 2008


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Ddos&…Registration system, Servers and etc.

Param ValueDomains 752Registrations 140 (18%)

Requests 5611000Requests/min 155263 IP-address 25363IP-blocks (x.x.x.x/24) 4814

Registrants 78 Requests/domain 50077

>1000 Requests/domain 17 domains (2,2%)100 < Requests/domain < 1000 17 domains (2,2%)


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«ccTLD.RU: regulation» Pavel Khramtsov ([email protected])[email protected] Moscow-2008