FAS obliged RU-CENTER to return illegally received 239360212 rubles

According to the results of the regular meeting on consideration of the case on the distribution of domain names in the domain. RF, the Commission of the Federal Antimonopoly Service decided to discontinue consideration of the case in relation to all defendants, except CJSC "RCITS" and ANO "RSITS". In the actions of the aforementioned legal entities, the commission found a violation of Part 1 of Article 11, Part 3 of Article 11 and Part 1 of Article 14 of the Law on Protection of Competition and decided to oblige JSC "RSIC" to transfer illegally received revenues in the amount of 239,360,212 rubles. to the budget of the Russian Federation.

The FAS found that RU-CENTER had violated the law, concluding partnership agreements with other players in the market before opening the Cyrillic domain zone, which allowed the company to exceed the limit of 4800 applications for domains per hour from one registrar. Results of domain auctions held by the registrar may be disputed or canceled.

In April, the antimonopoly service already fined Ru-Center with 600 thousand rubles for obstructing the investigation. All materials of the current FAS investigation will provide the relevant law enforcement agencies with materials to resolve the issue of a criminal case. Since on March 16, 2011, the RBC group of companies acquired CJSC SRIC, the payer of the fine and the beneficiary of the “ serious synergistic effect ” is likely to be RBC OJSC.