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Domain УКР - the future of Ukrainian Internet

30.04.2010
In Ukrainian online media continues to discuss the current situation and the status of the application for delegation of the domain УКР I would like to comment on some of them.

I want to emphasize in his extremely positive attitude to the appearance and content of these publications, however, in view of the fact that they mentioned our company correspondence, comments from Ukrneyms seem entirely appropriate and necessary. For those who want the story and the subject matter described in detail here http://ukrnames.com/news/ukrnames-ob-ukr.html

Further in the text, comments Alexander Loboda, director of the "Center of Ukrainian Internet Names" (comments in bold):

«Meanwhile, an online community of Ukraine is worried about the future of transparency in Cyrillic domain. In particular, it now refers to the fact that the status of the technical domain administrator УКР claims only one company "Center of Ukrainian Internet Names." And for the transparent operation and development of the company domain name administrator to be selected on a competitive basis. »

- Transparency in the selection of the technical domain administrator is absolutely justified and encouraged us. Not only do we not see any obstacles to this objective but also believe that our existing technical facilities and expertise are, without exaggeration, the preferred during the selection process transparent. The position at which the issue of transparency in a scandalous attempt to translate the plane is unacceptable to us, and only an excuse for those who just do not want to transparent procedures.

«Center for Internet name of Ukraine is already offering to register domain names in БЛОГ and УКР currently has registered more than 10 thousand of such domains.»

- Indeed, the Center of Internet names Ukraine registers Cyrillic domains of public (gTLD УКР) since 2008. On the first day of the domains are working on technology-based i-DNS (www.i-dns.net), which is an accredited partner of Ukrneyms. According to the then existing version of the rules ICANN, on the FastTrack could claim only two-letter domains IDN ccTLD or ISO country codes. Therefore, when you run these two domain zones, we stated our intention to seek recognition in these zones ICANN Domain Common Areas IDN gTLD with subsequent migration of domains registered on the server ICANN.
To date, the number of registered domains in УКР significantly decreased, due to the end of the period of the delegation and the restrictions imposed on the registration of new \ extension of the domain owner.

"Center of Ukrainian Internet Names" from November 23, 2009 the company temporarily suspended accepting applications for the registration of domain names in the zone. RBM running a later priority registration only to holders of trade marks and trade marks. However, this did not prevent the take such domains as «секс.укр», «аренда.укр», «хостінг.укр», «футбол.укр», «встреча.укр», «банк.укр», «киевстар.укр», «мтс.укр», «билайн.укр».

- In accordance with the generally accepted practice of plague in areas of priority registration УКР, БЛОГ conducted at start domain in 2008. Then, for several months the priority right to register the owners had only the relevant trade marks, which is also a common practice. Then hold open registration, and anyone can register a domain.
Naturally, after USITS decided to serve УКР as a ccTLD have a question about migration of domains registered. RBM. There are several good arguments in favor of this migration:

1. It is the most viable option for ICANN. Migration is the only measure to prevent the formation of lawsuits about the conflict of interest with the existing area УКР.
2. Today it is the prevailing international practice: the migration of domains from the database i-DNS will be made in China and will be used wherever there is a similar situation.
3. Migration to offer only those domain names that do not conflict with the rules, that is, do not violate the copyright or other rights of third parties, are not geographical names, etc.
4. To date, a free registration УКР closed. Domains УКР include brand owners, as it was in the priority registration period.


Meanwhile, experts believe that while Ukrainian companies are not interested in registering domains УКР. This is due to several reasons such as the fact that the Ukrainian and domain area. UA is not yet available for free registration. Members will long to get used to the existence of such a domain zone so companies are not very important for your website to get the mirror in the Cyrillic domain name space.

- Perhaps this statement is an attempt to explain why no one else offered to assist in the acquisition of Ukraine's domain УКР. However, do not confuse the interests of registrars pursuing their own interests with those of millions of users is UA-not that we know for sure is, the domain is needed.

priority registration period in the blast zone. Russian, even when properly prescribed by the rules of registration for trademark holders, showed a number of problems. It is obvious that this kind of challenges await and Ukrainian domain УКР. Ukrainian Internet community has not decided on the need to enter the Cyrillic domain that shows that the beginning of the delegation УКР is in advance.

Fast Track - a process limited in time. If Ukraine is not announced its participation in it, in November, to get the domain УКР under the simplified procedure would not have been possible.
It can be noted that the debate around УКР subsided. The consensus found. All the misunderstandings caused by the lack of dialogue and the lack of information in the past. Actors have realized the threat of torpedoing Ukraine gained its national domain in the native language. Again - «Fast Track» makes no warranty and limited in time - no one will have to wait. The next chance for Ukraine may occur 5 to 10 years from now, knowing the unpredictability of ICANN nothing can be predicted.