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international non-profit organization Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which determines the rate of registration of domain names on the Internet, has issued a preliminary text of a new agreement with the firms, registrars. The new contract will require the accreditation of registrars to verify the buyers user domains – through SMS, phone call or email. The change can not affect the domains of (. Ru,. De, etc.).

– The agreement is still under discussion – told “Izvestia” ICANN spokesman Veni Markovski. – When the negotiations are over, the project will be published for public comment, and only then, the ICANN Board will make a decision. The current version of the agreement is a requirement that registrars verified or e-mail, or phone number of the registrant.

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different company registrars are working on two versions of the agreement – 2001 and 2009. The new version is now being discussed, it should be approved this year, the head of the International Relations registrar Ru-Center Sergei Gorbunov.

– Market players believe that ICANN has no right to oblige registrars to contract the new version, as long as they are not expired contract – he explains. – In fact ICANN registrars forces move to the new version, otherwise they will not get access to new top-level domains, which, of course, limit the sales channels.

– ICANN generally tightens the requirements for verification of identity. Changes will also gTLDs -. Com,. Net,. Org, – says Director of Development domain. Su Sergey Ovcharenko. – We, as a national domain, this requirement does not apply.

director of public relations and interaction with government agencies Ru-Center Andrei Vorobyov also believes that the new rules do not affect national zones (such as. ru and. Federation). ICANN does not interfere in the politics of national domains, the expert said.

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numbers attached to your passport, in such cases, the new procedure will make it easier to identify the owner of a domain name, said Andrei Vorobyov. It should be noted that the verification is provided for the account, which may be registered in multiple domains. That is reaffirming its data once the user does not have to be at the registration of each new domain to respond to letters or phone calls recorder.

– Mobile phone – it’s a good way of identification. In fact, this simplified version of the query document, passport number because people are reluctant to give, and by phone via the mobile operator subscriber can be identified – says Director of Development. Masterhost Dmitry Creek. – However, our country has the opportunity to buy the actual number and without documents.

According to the vice-chairman of the Pirate Party of Stanislav Shakirov location zapelengovat mobile phone can be up to five meters. But if he is in the crowd, to find out who the attacker will be difficult. Nevertheless, the system telephone confirmation of registration can cause problems, for example, for spammers, because they need a large number of names.

– Many registrars currently no systems that allow for the verification – adds Gorbunov. – As part of the negotiations with ICANN registrars could negotiate a transition period: verification users will be effective after January 1, 2014, to the business model could be revised in accordance with the new contract.

Director of the Coordination Center for TLD Andrei Kolesnikov recognizes the need for systems confirm the identity of users.

– In me are fighting two world picture. First – you need to verify. Different situations arise – with the owners, with the crime. You need to know the domain administrator – said Kolesnikov. – Second – what a law-abiding citizen to answer honestly and not hidden, and a lot of tools available to criminals to hide, and no verification methods do not help.