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About the Center
The Coordination Center was established by the Russian Association of Networks and Services (RANS), the Union of Internet Operators, the Regional Public Center of Internet Technologies and the Russian Institute for Public Networks (RIPN) in 2001 as a non-profit organization.
In 2015, the Russian Ministry of Communications and Mass Media and the Internet Development Institute also became founding members.
The domain name registration system was reorganized in Russia when Coordination Center was established: the national registry’s administrative and technical functions were separated; the work process with end users was updated; a new cooperation protocol for system users was introduced; and the legislative and regulatory foundation of the new registration system was developed.
Domain development
The total number of domain names in .RU
The total number of domain names in .РФ
Registrars
In 1998, the Russian Institute for Public Networks (RIPN) and the .RU Coordination Group began discussing “the creation of a domain registrar association.”
In fact, this meant establishing an institute of registrars: a pool of independent companies doing business by registering domains in ccTLDs. Since the .RU ccTLD was registered in 1994 and until 2009, RIPN served as a list of domain registrars. In 2009, these functions were transferred to the newly established Technical Center of Internet.
The trial operation for the distributed registration system ended in 2004. By the end of the year, domains were registered in the national domain zone by six registrars.
Registrators
In 2005, RIPN ceased to function as a domain name registrar. At the end of 2005, the Russian registration system completed its transformation, and on January 4, 2006, this was completely formalized. Changes were made to the IANA database record, according to which the .RU domain was now administered by the Coordination Center, and technical support was provided by RIPN.
The number of accredited registrars has reached 131 this year. These are companies located in 12 Russian cities, including Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Perm, and Kaliningrad; a lot of them develop their own partner networks (usually involving internet and hosting providers and web studios) providing services all across Russia. This means that any user interested in registering a domain can easily receive this service.
The Coordination Center is not a registrar and it is impossible to directly register domain names with it; it only sets the policy on domain name registration in the TLDs it administrates.
Directors
Coordination Center director, 2001-2005
Maria Stepanova, the first director of the Coordination Center, graduated from MEPhI. Before the Coordination Center was established, she took part in creating Relcom, the first Russian computer network; worked on the National Electronic Library project, and consulted RIPN on issues of international cooperation. In recent years, she has managed project activities, participated in the development of large IT projects, and now works in a Rostelecom subsidiary.
Coordination Center director, 2005–2009
Several important processes that became the foundation for the center’s activities today took place when Andrey Romanov was the director. This is when the distributed registration system was formed and developed, agreements were signed with ICANN and the Russian Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media, and work began to launch the first Cyrillic domain, .РФ. Now Andrey Romanov is Deputy Director of the Coordination Center.
Coordination Center director, 2009–2015
Andrey Kolesnikov was one the most active members of the Coordination Center Council for a long time. Creation of the first Cyrillic ccTLD, .РФ, in 2010 was the most important and notable event of his tenure at the Coordination Center. Today Andrey Kolesnikov is the head of the Internet of Things Association that unites companies introducing and promoting IoT solutions in various sectors of the economy.
Coordination Center Director since 2015
Andrey Vorobyev has headed the Coordination Center for six years and worked in the domain industry for 20 years, including the Coordination Center. Before the Coordination Center, Andrey Vorobyev worked at RIPN, and later at RU-CENTER, one of the largest domain registrars, where he was PR and GR director. He took an active part in launching .MOSCOW and .МОСКВА geographic TLDs.
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