.RF reboot

    KC is probably ofigel from reg.ru and adjusts the rules - only trademarks registered before March 25, 2009 get into priority registration. A bunch of CETIS domains (bank.rf, sex.rf) do not fall under this rule, because registered later, and a special commission will decide on their registration.

    Now registration is stopped, all registered domains are deleted, and registration begins in a new way, taking into account these rules.

    True, this is more like an attempt to take time to either mitigate the scandal and smudge it for a certain period, or it is true to come up with something against such a swapping. But it is difficult to imagine that the expert commission, which should decide the fate of more recent brands, will be able to find reasonable arguments why one should be given and not given to the other.

    Alternatively, they could cancel the priority registration for fresh TMs altogether, leaving them for auction. At the very least, the opportunities for all would be equal.



    - Dear registrars!

    We hereby inform you that on November 26, 2009, the Council of the Coordination Center of the national domain of the Internet made a decision to supplement the "Regulation on the priority registration of domain names in the domain.RF" with the following conditions:

    1. Reservation of domain names is a priority for trademarks registered no later than March 25, 2009.

    2. In the case of filing applications in respect of matching spelling of trademarks registered in different classes of ICGS, subsequent registration of a domain name will be carried out for a trademark with an earlier registration date.

    3. Resolving issues of reservation of domain names in relation to trademarks, including well-known ones registered after March 25, 2009, will be considered by a specially created expert commission at the Coordination Center.

    In connection with the decision made by the Council, the work of the registry and the registration system of second-level domain names in the domain. The Russian Federation is suspended until the processing of submitted applications is brought into line with the approved changes.

    We ask you to be sympathetic to the decision of the Council, which takes into account the need to observe the maximum purity and transparency of the process of entering a domain.

    Tomorrow, November 27, 2009 TCI suspends the acceptance of applications for reservation of domains of trademark owners and deletes all entries in the registry. We ask you to resubmit applications that are fully consistent with changes in the Regulation. The Coordination Center will inform about the date of the repeated acceptance of applications.

    For its part, the Coordination Center begins accepting applications for consideration by an expert commission. The work schedule of the expert commission will be announced shortly.

    Also popular now: