Registration of ".РФ" as a performance in 4 acts or another opinion

    Performance (fr. Spectacle, from lat. Spectaculum - a sight).
        So, I’m so tired of this sight, of the angry crowds of Internet users, of the posts on Twitter, and of grinding the bones of the company RU-CENTER, that I also decided to “pardon” this topic. I am very surprised how the audience of Habr and the whole Runet reacted to the actions of RU-CENTER. I do not want to shield anyone or to denigrate anyone. And to consider who, how much has earned, will earn, and who, how much less or less, will be accountants, or lawyers, I'm not going to do this. I am more surprised that everyone blames RU-CENTER for everything, and any other company could be in its place, and for the most part all registrars look like each other like two drops of water, since almost all had preliminary bids, auctions, and other similar mechanisms. And it turns out what kind of "system" is blown away by someone who has stepped forward in this race ...

        I see all this recording as a performance in 4 acts, I wrote a couple about each, and sometimes more words. In some, I was even a kind of protagonist, and described the so-called “view from the stage”.

    ACT 1. Priority Registration



        I was late for the first act, so I'll start the story from the second.

    View from the stage: Actually, I personally did not participate in it, since I am not from a government agency, I did not have a trademark or trademark, and there was no money for its (his) purchase, as I did for example: Open Independent Logistic Association “Iota” N ". And since I did not participate in it, I can’t tell a lot, so I’ll tell you about what I participated in.

    ACT 2. Pre-registration



        FACT No. 1. "Pre-registration was at almost all registrars, and already at large 100%."You can look in Yandex, at the request “pre-registration of domains of the Russian Federation”, most registrars have already deleted this data in connection with the scandal, but Yandex remembers it and saves it securely in its cache. I did not look at the conditions for pre-registrations of other registrars, but I bet that not one “so smart” your RU-CENTER. Despite FACT No. 1. all ringing only about RU-CENTER. The question is why? Yes, because he won most of the pre-registration orders, which terribly upset the “squatters”, as well as other registrars, but this is a lot of money, and all this money floated away from them. The situation is complicated by the fact that many did not read the rules of pre-registration, believing that since the money was debited from the account, then the domain is already yours. But it wasn’t here!FACT 2. “Neither RU-CENTER nor other registrars promised you that the domains after your pre-registration will immediately become yours, you can read the pre-registration rules.” And in spite of FACT 2. All twitter and LJ, was full of records from the series: “Oh hell !!!, RU-CENTER“ stole my domain | registered on himself | posted at auction | terribly deceived my hopes ”, substitute how someone likes. I even specially made screenshots from the monitor screen so that the information would remain in memory of this agony. Then these domains will go to “Closed auctions”, read below.

    View from the stage: I also participated in pre-registration of RU-CENTER, or in registration by pre-order, I don’t know how it sounds in the correct way, since each registrar has different writing. But, I took this step consciously, knowing that for those domains for which more than 2 applications there will be auctions. As a result, out of 8 applications, I received only one domain, and this is a domain with the name of my company. The rest went to auctions, and to some extent I am glad that the domains have not yet passed into the hands of “squatters” and tendering is ongoing. I’m not used to counting someone else’s money, and it makes no difference to whom to pay money for the domain that I need, in any case it would either be an RU-CENTER auction, or there would be an auction of another registrar, or a “squatter” that would probably win prices up than at all auctioned together.

    ACT 3. Open Registration


        Open registration began so rapidly that after the arrow fell by 12 hours, everyone who could could go to the registrar's sites and they immediately “fell”. In this wave, all the other domains that the squatters did not buy in the 1st act, and those domains that did not go to closed auctions, began to be bought up. Most, if not all, of the population wanted to become Squatters. Having heard tales of wealth from domain sales in the “.RU” zone, everyone ran to give their money. Why am I saying everything? It just seemed like this, otherwise how could it be explained:
    domain: XN - 80ABUGBHV9A.XN - P1AI (kilobyte.rf)
    state: REGISTERED, NOT DELEGATED, VERIFIED
    org: Moscow Taxi LLC
    Although it is possible, this is their new tariff plan - “Payment per kilobyte!”. Maybe this is a web studio with the original name, if so, I apologize publicly.

        As a result, they bought everything! And all that could be called “tasty”, “tolerant”, and even “unnecessary” by the evening of open registration was registered, and this is about 200 thousand domains. If I am wrong, correct. Zone ".РФ" broke all records. Open registration is still ongoing, but, unfortunately, for many, it ended before it even started. The dream of our President that the zone.RF will allow every citizen of our country to get their representation on the Internet does not look so rosy, although I think that the addresses from the series “SURNAME-NAME- PATHNAME-PASSPORT SERIES –PASSPORT.RF NUMBER” will be free, at least I could not register my name and surname, they were already taken. Open registration is open and open, we will not focus our attention on it and move on to the next act. And if anyone wants to buy domains,

    View from the stage: Actually, like everyone else, I also participated in open registration, and I had decent orders for domain registration (as I thought), in the first wave, I submitted more than 30 orders for my projects, the projects of my customers, and even for sale (since I am no different from ordinary people). So, after a day, more than half were registered by a certain company “Personnel N”, and RU-CENTER only replied that “registration is not possible”. So not all domains were purchased by the "sinister" RU-CENTER. Further, when the money was unlocked, I bought several more domains, although by the evening of the second day all the vocabulary words and those nearby with them were either registered or at closed auctions.

    ACT 4. Closed auctions



        The audience is raging, all the “squatters” who hoped that the domains for which they applied in the 2nd act will become a new decoration of their collection and bring them many, many money, literally slip away from their hands. How to be, the “evil” RU-CENTER took their domains to private auctions and is trying to claim more from them than they hoped to spend. Everyone immediately begins to write letters to the President, FAS, and other structures, so, they say, and so, those “tasty” domains that we wanted to buy, I bought RU-CENTER, ah-ah-ah! But we planned to buy them and resell them later, and not for 3-4 thousand rubles, and not for rubles at all, and the sales bar would have stood within the framework of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

        Look, for example, how much they sell analogues in the “.RU” zone. The simplest example is the famous site "pivo.ru". The site itself speaks of the sale thereof, and the price will please anyone, here is a simple quote from the site: “I received approximately the same letter in early January:“ Nikita, hello! My bet is $ 150,000. Let's formalize the offer. My details are below ... " $ 150,000 was offered back in early January, and the site has not yet been sold, probably the price is too low ...

        On the Internet you can find even more “attractive” offers, for example, “sms.ru” at the time of writing, is put up for sale for the same RU-CENTER, for $ 5,000,000, and next to it, a little more expensive than konsultirovanie.ru for $ 5,001,180. Good prices, isn't it.

        The epic “.РФ” is not over yet, and the resale of domains has already begun, as Marker Business newspaper writes, the city car domain - ё-mobil.rf was registered in its name by a certain Anton Titov, who has nothing to do with it . Who does not know? City car? This is a project of a car developed by Prokhorov and Biryukov, and they already have money, and therefore what happens next? The newspaper Marker writes that the same Anton Titov replied that he would be: "An sale for $ 500 thousand is interesting." $ 500,000 is not bad money, especially when there is someone to borrow from.

        Let us return to RU-CENTER, which, one might say brazenly stole the money earned by “hard work” from those who did not manage to redeem “their” domains. And the question is that people wanted to “easily cut the dough” by buying a domain for 600 rubles and selling it for $ 600,000. But it wasn’t there, at closed auctions you need to pay more than 600 rubles for domains. As a result, everyone begins to count other people's money and delves into the dirty laundry, which, by the way, everyone has without exception.

    View from the stage: At the moment, I also continue to participate in auctions, hoping to outbid the domain of interest to me. And I will be very saddened if the auctions are canceled, because then I will have a much lower chance of acquiring the domain I need

    EPILOGUE



        All this registration is like a section of a huge pie, and those who did not get a piece are ready to tear it out of the neighbor’s mouth, and even if they don’t tear it all out, then at least break it off. The question is, whoever managed to eat it, and after the fight it is already useless to wave your hands. No one says that RU-CENTER is an "angel", but to say that the "angels" are all the rest is simply stupid, because if someone else won from the registrars, they would have had auctions and they would have eaten this piece of the pie. This is a business, managed to play it safe, make connections, build bridges - get the jackpot, did not have time - blame yourself.

    WHAT HAPPEN IF ...


        What would happen if there was no pre-registration, and open registration would start the same for everyone? Remember the registrar server at the first moment of registration. Yes, they worked every other time, and sometimes even “lay”, and RU-CENTER is no exception. Provided that there would be no pre-registration, the number of people on registration increased by another hundred thousand, those hundred thousand who did not worry hoping for pre-registration. Servers and registrars could not cope within a few hours, but during the day, or days. And after this fierce agony, resale of domains with an enormous cost, which would be more than those that are now at auctions, would follow.

    PS

        To be honest, at first I started writing a comment with my opinion about what was happening, but then this comment became too big, and I had to write a post ...

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