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The legitimacy of the Coordination Center’s activities was questioned.

The conflict between the Coordination Center of the national domain of the Internet and CJSC RU-CENTER (RU-CENTER) has entered a new stage. Accused of monopolizing the domain market, RU-CENTER went on the attack, questioning the legitimacy of the Russian regulator of the Internet space.



The corresponding petition was filed at a meeting of the Federal Antimonopoly Service.





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This is the news published on the Coordination Center website:

"The Coordination Center took part in the next meeting of the Federal Antimonopoly Service. It was assumed that the case of registering the domains of CJSC RSITS (RU-CENTER) with the signs of violation of the antitrust law on the merits would be considered. However, the meeting began with the consideration of the RU-CENTER request consideration of the legitimacy of the Coordination Center’s activities in the management of the national domain. RF. The petition was rejected due to the fact that it was not relevant to the essence of the case under consideration. ie that such a petition has caused bewilderment participants, since all the necessary information about the aspects of the Coordination Center is on site and the center on the ICANN website (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers).



Due to the fact that RU-CENTER did not provide the documents requested by the FAS, an administrative case was initiated. “It is possible that as a result, the FAS will impose a fine on RU-CENTER, since the refusal to submit documents for the meeting is considered an administrative offense according to the Code on Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation, article 19.8, paragraph 5, and the penalty for a legal entity provided for by the current legislation in this case is from 300 to 500 thousand rubles, ”says Sergey Kopylov, a representative of the Coordination Center. "



It is clear that right now no rights will be taken away from the Coordination Center. But the touchstone is thrown.

Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/115175/



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