Reg.ru vs. Ru-Center: The Lawyers' War against Techies

Everyone has heard that the beginning of registration in the zone. RF began with a rush. At present, already half a million domains have been registered. No one expected this. But the main surprise of this campaign was the amazing speed with which the registrar Ru-Center registered the most popular domain names: it happened in 0.2-0.3 seconds. They chose an hour quota in 20-30 minutes, while other recorders did not have time to choose their quotas completely.

Recently, the Federal Antimonopoly Service filed documents in the case against the Ru-Center, where she is accused of dishonest business practices.

The main accusation against Ru-Center is that the owner of this organization, Alexey Platonov, is at the same time the head of ZAO Techcenter Internet.

Alexey Platonov - one of the founders of the Runet, the former director of RosNIIROS, graduated from the Moscow Engineering and Physics Institute with a degree in theoretical nuclear physics. Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences.
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JSC Techcenter Internet is a unique provider of services for the Main Registry of Domain Names.

Techcenter Internet and Ru-Center are located in the same building practically in neighboring rooms, so Ru-Center could allegedly gain a technical advantage when registering domains.

List of documents submitted to the FAS.

Information on the zone. RF (PDF, Google Docs)
Extract from the register for CJSC RSITS (PDF, Google Docs)
Extract from register for FIARD (PDF, Google Docs)
Extract from register for FORPOST (PDF, Google Docs)

A total of Ru-Center "grabbed" about 180 thousand domains and is now going to sell them at auction. According to the Director of Public Relations of Ru-Center, the average price of each domain at the auction will be about 3000-3500 rubles. surely he is cunning. This is more like the minimum price than the average. Anyway, we are talking about millions of dollars (even at a lower estimate of the Ru-Center itself).

Note that this “cybersquatting” Ru-Center does not contradict the contract with customers. Surprise is only the speed of the Ru-Center bots: in the first six hours of the 184,352 registered domains, Ru-Center accounted for 56,785. This is the main “crop” worth at least several million dollars. It is obtained exclusively by technical means.

Documents to the FAS handed State Duma deputy Alexander Kogan. He received them from a well-known PR specialist, President of the Novoye Delo Business Association, Mikhail Dvorkovich, brother of Assistant to the President of Russia Arkady Dvorkovich. Interestingly, Mikhail Dvorkovich rather inaccurately and with overlapping emotions describes aspects of this matter in his twitter .

And now it has become known where the legs of this case grow from. As Marker found out , all documents denouncing RU-CENTER were prepared by one of the main shareholders of Reg.ru. famous cybersquatter phillip gross.

It should be noted that Reg.ru is the main competitor of RU-CENTER in the scam with domains. RF to register domains. RF.

The most accurate essence of the conflict was expressed by an anonymous commentator on the forum Roem.ru.

“As I see it, there are two gangs: KC + Reg.ru and TC + Roucenter. The first ones are “lawyers”, the second ones are “techies”.

Lawyers played with documents and wording, sawed the zone during priority registration. techies - during the start of open registration, lawyers were pushed into the background.

The first gang sawed up trump domains, but still for the money - incomparably less, compared to the second. They were offended and began to wet the second.

And if Kolesnikov and Co. defended the interests of reg. Ru / tsetis / lineberger-advisers during raids from above on priority, then Rucenter cannot count on this. But behind them ripn and others.

I wonder who will win . ”