The amendments to the Rules were initiated by the Federal Service

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On December 12, a new version of the Rules for registering domain names in the .RU and .РФ domains will come into force. The rules were approved by the decision of the general meeting of the founders of the ANO "Coordination Center for the National Internet Domain" on November 7, 2022 (minutes of the next general meeting of the founders of the ANO "Coordination Center for the National Internet Domain" No. 25 dated November 7, 2022).
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The changes concern paragraph 5.5 of the Rules, which regulates the termination of the delegation of domain names by the registrar. Now the delegation of a domain may be terminated by the registrar, including on the basis of a reasoned request from the head (deputy head or other authorized official) of the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media in the event of registration of a domain name using the personal data of third parties without their consent or if this Internet resource contains information, access to which should be restricted on the territory of Russia in accordance with the provisions of Federal Law No. 149-FZ of 27.07.2006 "On Information, Information Technology and the Protection of Information".

Marina Brik, head of the domains and related services department at Ru-Center, said that the changes in the rules apply to all registrars and administrators of domain names in the top-level domains .RU/.РФ. "After the new version of the rules comes into force (12.12.2022), based on the requirement of Roskomnadzor, the registrar will be obliged to stop delegating a domain name in the event of registration of such a domain using the personal data of third parties without their consent, or if the Internet resource addressed using this domain name contains information, access to which should be restricted on the territory of the Russian Federation in accordance with the provisions of Federal Law No. 149-FZ of July 27, 2006 "On Information, Information Technology and the Protection of Information." In accordance with the current version of the rules, only bodies carrying out operational-search activities have such powers - to send registrars a demand to terminate delegation - she comments. - Amendments to the rules were initiated by the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media due to the repeated complaints they received from individuals whose data was used to register domain names without their knowledge and consent, in order to prevent the illegal use of personal data when registering domain names. We are awaiting clarification on the procedure for applying the updated clause of the rules from the Coordination Center for .RU/.РФ domains."