Andrei Vorobyov, Coordination Center for TLD RU’S Director spoke at the opening of the annual conference “Runat 2015: Results of the Year” conference.
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” On December 16, the annual conference, “Runet 2015: Results of the Year,” was held.
The event was devoted to current issues in the industry, and it’s not just a summary of the year’s results but also a development roadmap for next year.
Andrei Vorobyov, director of the Coordination Center for TLD RU, spoke at the opening of the conference. He mentioned the development of the Russian TLD .RU and .РФ and the general situation in the Russian domain space. Vorobyov said the negative trend of decreasing registrations in .RU, which was observed since autumn 2014, was reversed in the second half of 2015.
“The .RU domain started to grow again, and the five-millionth .RU domain name was registered in November 2015. The number of .RU domains is expected to increase to 5,050,000 by the end of the year. So it’s quite good growth, and many European domains could envy it. In Europe, the situation is not that good this year — some TLDs have even shown so-called ‘negative growth,’” the center’s director said.
He also shared his vision of the development prospects for .РФ: “For the first time in the past five years, we do not expect the start of open registration in .РФ to fail.” The .РФ domain has 885,155 domain names today, and the registration of the 900,000th domain name, according to analysts, will take place in early 2016. In addition, ICANN’s recent report demonstrated that Cyrillic domain zones are in high demand among IDN.
The security issue is one of the determinants for the Russian domain space and to ensure it, the Coordination Center is developing the Netoskop project and inviting for cooperation new authorized organizations, which are responsible for cyber security in Russian domains. In 2016, the information security project will be joined by foreign partners.
Vorobyov also said that the Association of Russian TLD Registries will be created in 2016: “In the past two years, the number of Russian TLDs has increased significantly, as Russia took part in ICANN’s program to create new domains. Next year, ICANN is likely to open a ‘second window,’ and there will be more new domains. Therefore, domain market professionals should unite and jointly address all pressing issues.”
The center’s director spoke about the impact produced by the adoption of Federal Law No. 242-FZ, On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation Regarding the Clarification of Personal Data Processing in Information and Telecommunication Networks,” on hosting and registrar markets. The issue will be discussed at major industry events — HostReview and RIGF 2016. The main topics of the Russian Internet Governance Forum will be net neutrality and IT sovereignty. In addition, the Infrastructure Cluster will be created in 2016 based on the RAEC Commission of hosting providers and registrars, which will also involve the center’s experts.”
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