Runet moves to the position of the domain – Kommersant

The founders of the Coordination Center for TLD RU (CC), which is the administrator of the domain .ru and .rf, decided to change the charter, according to which the supreme organ of the CC now becomes the general meeting of founders, not an elected advisory council, which includes including a representative of the state. According to experts, such a decision is fraught with destabilization of the entire domain industry, in particular the problems with the American corporation ICANN, which is the administrator of the domain name of the global Internet.

The fact that the founders of the association “Coordination Center for TLD RU” made changes to the charter of the organization, “Kommersant” reported by several sources familiar with the situation. According to them, according to a new version of the statute, all the major decisions taken by meeting of the founders, which is becoming the main executive body of the CC instead of the CC elected council, as before, and can cancel or change any decision taken by the Board. According to “Kommersant”, the Ministry of Justice the new statute already registered.

CC serves as the administrator of the Russian national top-level domain .ru and .rf (currently 4.9 million domains in .ru and 857 tys.- zone .rf ), administers the domain, ensuring the technological development of their infrastructure and the development of regulatory documents, accreditation of registrars. According to the database “SPARK-Interfax”, in 2014, the center’s revenue amounted to 148 million rubles., Net profit – 18 million rubles. In addition to the “insurance” deposit of 30 million rubles. “Just in case” at KC have a regular income from TCI (Technical Center of the Internet, serving the main register and the system of registration of national domains .ru, .rf and domain .su, ensures uninterrupted operation of domain addressing the Russian segment of the Internet). “For the domain is paid once a year – roughly one domain costs 100 rubles.”, – Told in an interview to “Kommersant” deputy director of TCI Marina Nikerova. “Some goes to KC to maintain activities,” – explains one of the interlocutors “b”.

Founders KC is a public association “Association of Networks”, a non-profit “Union operators of the Internet”, a regional organization “Centre of Internet Technologies” and the Russian Institute for Public Networks. In turn, the highest governing body is the board of the center, which consists of 13 experts and representatives of the Internet community as well as the representative of the State. The Director shall be appointed by the Board now holds this post Andrei Kolesnikov.

Due to recent changes in the Civil Code (CC) CC had to change the organizational structure, he says Source: “b” on the board. “To keep the control system, the CC would reorganize the fund – all the same, with the council as the supreme organ of the CC, but even created a board of trustees, and thus, could increase the number of government representatives to monitor critical infrastructure. The reorganization was considered exclusively to strengthen the role of the state: the statute ANO make it much more difficult, “- says a source familiar with the situation. According to him, the working group invited the founders to develop a viable option in the management of their entry KC, KC but instead “got backstage decision to amend the statute without notice board members and directors.”

Another source of “Kommersant” points out that the founders themselves transferred their powers to the Board of KC at its inception in 2001: “Almost 15 years, none of them She takes an active part in the life of KC “. It is a threat of destabilization throughout the domain industry, is not satisfactory for all these years in KC ready to challenge the legitimacy of the founders of the court categorically one of the interlocutors “b”. The fact is that if the scandal would be international, it will be fraught with problems with ICANN – the global Internet regulator, says an informed source “b”: “Who is an agreement between the Ministry of Communications and KC management domain zones .ru and .rf if it is terminated, you must redelegation, ICANN will not be pleased. ” Raises questions and unclear role of the state in the new charter KC, say the interlocutors “b”: if before the statute was written, that the representative of the controller is part of the Council, now “may be included as agreed.” The Telecommunications Ministry declined to comment, as did in KC.

Source: “b” close to one of the founding organizations, however, insists that the founders made it clear that they are against the re-KC from the ELN to the fund – “otherwise the national domain go into private hands. ” According to him, there was only a technical amendment of the charter under current legislation. “May 25, 2015 a general meeting of the founders of the Corporate Center, where it was unanimously decided on the approval of a new charter of the CC” – to the text of the official position of the founders of KC circulated last night.

Earlier form ELN was devoted only a few lines in the Civil Code, it was the most democratic form of unsettled and organizational structure that allows a legal entity to carry out almost any activity, says partner of law firm ” S & amp; K Vertical “Andrew Mikonin. “But after the amendments to the Civil Code rules on the ELN became more clear and imperative. In particular, it is what should be the executive body, is now deciding the founders,” – he says.

“ICANN does not interfere in the affairs of national registries and the changes in the charter of the CC is not informed,” – said yesterday the “b” Vice-President of ICANN Mikhail Yakushev.

Roman Rozhkov