Reg.ru has divided the domain of the game "Mnogokhodovochka"

    A curious precedent occurred with the domain of the political game Mnogokhodovochka (tekstogram.com), which was launched on January 5 by the staff of the Lentach publication.

    Yesterday, the Reg.ru domain registrar shared the address tekstogram.com . This is done without a court order or an order from the prosecutor general.

    It seems obvious that Reg.ru’s actions are politically motivated. But the registrar claims to have acted in strict accordance with the ICANN procedure for domain names in the .com zone: “According to the registration rules, the contact information and information about the domain administrator must be correct and up to date. Upon receipt of a complaint to a domain name, a mandatory check of this condition is carried out, as well as the mandatory receipt of a response from the domain administrator to the submitted complaint. If it was not possible to complete the specified procedure within the established time, the domain registrar is obliged to suspend the delegation. ”

    The nuance of this story is that only domain names are in the competence of the registrar , but not the content of the site. But what claims can be to the domain name tekstogram.com?

    The domain owners publish a screenshot of the Reg.ru correspondence, where the registrar himself admits that the complaint received does not refer to the domain, but to the content of the site.





    It turns out that Reg.ru exceeded its authority. After all, it is not the registrar’s business to determine which content falls under the definition of “extremism” and which does not. Although formally they followed the procedure: 1) sent a letter, 2) did not receive a response, 3) divided the domain.


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    “This is complete nonsense. Technical registrars, whose task is to make entries in the registries, are sitting and sorting out which sites they like and which they don't like. This is not their business at all. It is up to the prosecutor’s office, the investigating authorities to determine what is extremism and what isn’t. And not uncles from the street. Moreover, they have a million and a half domains registered. And any of them can be divided at any moment at their whim. They can close any site of their client at will or at the only one complaint of a madman, ”commented Mark Shane, the manager of the Lentach community in a comment by TJ.

    PS Go to the website of the game can be at 178.62.122.25 mnogohodovochka.moskva .

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