1. Main provisions

1.1.The present Procedures for priority registration of domain names in ccTLD  .РФ for certain categories of registrants (hereinafter referred to as “Procedures”) is an Addendum to the Procedures of Domain names registration under ccTLD .РФ (hereinafter referred to as “Procedures”) and shall determine conditions, procedure and timelines for domain names registration in ccTLD .РФ for certain categories of registrants.
1.2. Terms and definitions used in the present Procedures:
Priority registration – registration of the second-level domain name in ccTLD .РФ within the timeline and for the categories of registrants specified by the present Procedures;
Other terms and definitions used in the present Procedures are specified in the Terms and Conditions.
1.3. Priority registration shall be exercised by registrars pursuant to Terms and Conditions and the present Procedures.
1.4. The following categories of registrants shall be eligible for priority domain names registration in compliance with present Procedures:
1.4.1. Holders of the exclusive rights to trademarks/ service marks registrable in compliance with national procedure in the Russian Federation or which are protected in compliance with international procedure in the territory of the Russian Federation;
1.4.2. Owners of exclusive rights to a company names;
1.4.3. Holders of exclusive rights for use of appellation origin of goods;
1.4.4 Non-for-profit organizations established  in compliance with the law of the Russian Federation;
1.4.5. Founders (co-founders) of mass media registered in compliance with the procedures set forth by the law of the Russian Federation whose products are designated for dissemination throughout the whole territory of the Russian Federation.
1.5. Delegation of the domain name registrable within the priority registration period will be possible not later than within 1 (one) month after posting information on ccTLD .РФ on the root servers of the global DNS (delegation of ccTLD .РФ).

2. Conditions of priority registration

2.1. Priority registration shall be exercised with regard to the domain name which satisfies requirements set forth to domain name which may be registrable in line with the Terms and Conditions.
Blank spaces and (or) special symbols which do not meet the requirements specified in clause 3.3.2 of Terms and Conditions and that form a  part of the word element of trademark/service mark, brand name, product’s origin appellation, names of categories of registrants provided for in the present Procedures should be deleted or changed by the registrant for “hyphen”.
2.2. Given there are two or more applications for priority registration for one and the same domain name, a positive decision regarding domain name registration shall be taken with respect to the registrant who has been the first to comply with requirements of priority registration and has complied with conditions of an agreement with the registrar.

3. Procedure and timelines for the priority registration of domain names for certain categories of registrants

3.1. Procedure and timelines for the priority registration of domain names for the owners of exclusive rights to trademarks/service marks
3.1.1. The right to priority domain name registration shall be granted to owners of exclusive rights to trademarks/service marks (hereinafter – “trademark”) of any type in the event the trademark shall represent and (or) contain clearly and unequivocally legible word, phrase or word combination (hereinafter – “word part”).
In the event of an ambiguous legibility by the registrar, the word part of the trademark shall be confirmed by the conclusion of the Federal Service for Intellectual Property, Patents and Trademarks (Rospatent) or a copy of an application for registration of the trademark certified by Rospatent. In the event of failure to submit the aforementioned documents, the registrar may refuse the owner of the exclusive rights to the trademark in priority registration of domain name.
3.1.2. Where the word part of the trademark includes endings defining a top-level domain (including symbol “dot”) or their transliteration then the owner of the exclusive rights to the trademark may exclude such endings from the registrable domain name.
3.1.3. In the event the word part of the trademark includes, besides a Russian Cyrillic definition, its transcription, transliteration (in all cases of transliteration referenced to in the present Procedures, it is recommended to apply GOST 7.79-2000 (http://www.gsnti-norms.ru/norms/common/doc.asp?2&/norms/stands/7_79.htm)) or translation to another language, then registrable domain name should comply with one of the following requirements (at the discretion of the owner of the exclusive rights to the trademark):
- to fully coincide with the word part of the trademark realized in the Russian Cyrillic spelling;
- to fully coincide with protected elements of the word part of the trademark realized in the Russian Cyrillic spelling.
An unprotected part of the trademark is those elements of the trademark which are directly indicated as such in the trademark certificate or in the conclusion on provision of protection in compliance with the international registration procedure .
3.1.4. Where the word part of the trademark has been fully realized with a script other than the Russian Cyrillic one, then the registrable domain name should coincide with the Russian Cyrillic transliteration, transcription of the word part of the trademark as a whole or in solely protected elements (at the discretion of the rightholder to the trademark).
3.1.5. In the event the word part of the trademark or its elements shall contain within one word Russian Cyrillic letters and letters of other scripts then in the registrable domain name these letters should be transliterated into the Russian Cyrillic alphabet. Where the whole element (word) of a word part is realized in letters of an alphabet other than the Russian Cyrillic one, then such element should be (at the discretion of the rightholder to the trademark) transliterated or transcribed into the Russian Cyrillic alphabet for the use in the composition of the domain name. At the same time, the registrable domain name should meet one of the following requirements (at the discretion of the owner of exclusive rights to the trademark):
- to fully coincide with word part of the trademark after the transcription/transliteration;
- to fully coincide with protected elements of the word part of the trademark after transcription/transliteration.
3.1.6. Where word part of the trademark shall contain solely Russian Cyrillic definition, then registrable domain name should coincide with word part of the trademark as a whole or with protected elements of the word part of the trademark (at the discretion of the rightholder to the trademark).
3.1.7. For priority registration of the domain name the owner of the exclusive rights to the trademark shall be bound to submit the registrar:
3.1.7.1. Application for priority registration of domain name;
3.1.7.2. Copies of the following documents certified by the stamp of the registrant:
- registration certificate of the registrant as legal entity or as individual entrepreneur, or documents confirming registration of the registrant as a legal entity issued in compliance with requirements of the country of registration (for foreign legal entities);
- trademark certificate or international certificate (license) with confirmation that it has come into effect in the territory of the Russian Federation; the trademark should be effective as of the date of submission of the application to the registrar;
- conclusion of the Federal Service for Intellectual Property, Patents and Trademarks (Rospatent) or a copy of an application for the trademark certified by Rospatent where provided for by the present Procedures.
3.1.8. Applications for priority registration of domain names from the owners of exclusive rights to trademarks shall be accepted from 12 May 2010 through 16 September 2010 .
3.2. Procedure and timelines for priority registration of domain names for the owners of exclusive rights to a company names
3.2.1. The owner of exclusive rights to a company name shall be granted the right to priority registration of the domain name which coincides with a full or abbreviated company name which is entered in Unified state register of legal entities
3.2.2. Registrable domain name should, in addition to its proper name, contain an indication to the full or abbreviated organizational and legal form of the legal entity.
3.2.3. For priority registration of the domain name the owner of exclusive rights to the company name shall be bound to submit to the registrar:
3.2.3.1. application for priority registration of domain name;
3.2.3.2. copies of the following documents, certified by the registrant’s stamp:
- registration certificate of the registrant as a legal entity;
- extract from the Unified state register of legal entities issued not earlier than in 20 (twenty) calendar days prior to the date of submission of the application to the registrar;
3.2.4. Application for priority registration of domain names from the owner of exclusive rights to the company name shall be accepted from 15 July 2010 through 16 September 2010.
3.3. Procedure and timelines for priority registration of domain names for the owners of exclusive rights to use of appellation of origin of goods
3.3.1. The owner of exclusive rights to use of appellation of origin of goods shall have the right for priority registration of the domain name which fully renders in letters of the Russian Cyrillic alphabet the appellation of origin indicated in the certificate on the exclusive right to use of appellation of origin of goods.
3.3.2. For priority registration of the domain name the owner of exclusive rights to use of appellation of origin of goods shall submit to the registrar:
3.3.2.1. application for priority registration of domain name;
3.3.2.2. copies of the following documents certified by the registrant’s stamp:
- registration certificate of the registrant as a legal entity or individual entrepreneur or documents confirming registration of the registrant as a legal entity issued in compliance with requirements of a country of registration (for foreign legal entities);
- certificate on the exclusive right to the appellation of origin effective as of date of submission of the application to the registrar.
3.3.3. Applications from owners of exclusive rights to use of appellation of origin of goods for priority registration of domain names shall be accepted from 15 July 2010 through 16 September 2010.

3.4. Procedure and timelines for priority registration of domain names for non-for-profit organizations
3.4.1. Organization specified in clause 1.4.4 thereof shall be granted the right to priority registration of the domain name which corresponds to the full or abbreviated name of the organization which has been entered in the Unified state register of legal entities.
3.4.2. Registrable domain name should, in addition to proper name of the organization, indicate organizational and legal form of the legal entity when such indication has been entered into the Unified state register of legal entities.
3.4.3. For priority domain name registration the organization should submit to the registrar:
3.4.3.1. application for priority registration of domain name;
3.4.3.2. copies of the following documents certified by the registrant’s stamp:
- registration certificate of registrant as a legal entity;
- extract from the Unified state register of legal entities issued not earlier than in 20 (twenty) calendar days prior to submission of the application to the registrar.
3.4.4. Applications for priority registration of domain names from organizations specified in clause 1.4.4 thereof shall be accepted from 15 July 2010 through 16 September 2010.
3.5. Procedure and timelines for priority registration of domain names for mass media
3.5.1. Founders (co-founders) of mass media (hereinafter – “MSM”) specified in clause 1.4.5 thereof shall be given the right to priority registration of the domain name which coincides with a full name of a MSM in the Russian language (Cyrillic) referenced to in the certificate of state registration of the MSM.
3.5.2. Application for registration of the domain name shall be submitted by the founder of the MSM. In the event there are co-founders of MSM, an individual authorized to submit the application for registration of the domain name and in whose name the domain name registration shall be exercised shall be determined by the decision of all co-founders of that MSM.
3.5.3. In the event the name of MSM in full or in part consists of letters different from the Russian Cyrillic alphabet, then the name of  the MSM or its respective part should be transliterated or transcribed with letters of the Russian Cyrillic alphabet at the discretion of the applicant.
3.5.4. Where the name of the MSM includes an ending defining a top-level domain (including symbol “dot”) or its transliteration, then such indication may be excluded from the registrable domain name at the discretion  of the applicant.
3.5.5. For priority registration of the domain name the founder of MSM shall be bound to submit to the registrar:
3.5.5.1. Application for priority registration of the domain name;
3.5.5.2. Copies of the following documents:
- registration certificate of the registrant as a legal entity or individual entrepreneur or a document confirming registrant’s registration as a legal entity issued in compliance with the requirements of a country of registration (for foreign legal entities) certified by the MSM founder’s stamp;
- copy of ID where the founder is an individual person;
- copy of a joint decision of all founders on registration of the domain name authorizing one of the founders to act as the administrator of the registrable domain name (in the event there are two or more founders of MSM);
- certificate of state registration of the MSM.
3.5.6. Applications for priority registration of domain names from mass media shall be accepted from 15 July 2010 through 16 September 2010 i.
3.6. Application form for priority registration and way of submission of documents by registrant provided for by clauses 3.1.7.2, 3.2.3.2, 3.3.2.2, 3.4.3.2, 3.5.4.2 thereof shall be determined by the registrar.
3.7. While accepting the registrant’s application for priority registration of the domain name the registrar shall be bound execute the following:
3.7.1. To verify data and documents submitted by registrant and make sure that the registrant is entitled to priority registration of the domain name;
3.7.2. where the registrant abide by conditions of the Agreement with registrar, to send an inquiry to the register with the following information:
- provision of  the domain name;
- details about the registrant (administrator);
- for categories of registrants specified in clauses 1.4.1, 1.4.3, 1.4.5 thereof – details on the document confirming the right of the registrant (administrator) for priority registration of the domain name within the period provided for by the present Procedures;
- for categories of registrants specified in clauses 1.4.2, 1.4.4 thereof – details on the document confirming state registration of a legal entity.
3.8. Registrar shall be bound to consider the application from the registrant within 10 (ten) working days starting from the date of receipt of all documents provided for by clauses 3.1.7.2, 3.2.3.2, 3.3.2.2, 3.4.3.2, 3.5.4.2 of the present Procedures for a respective category of registrants. By results of considering of the registrant’s application, the registrar shall be bound, prior to the expiration of aforementioned timeline, to provide the confirmation of the domain name registration or provide a refusal together with reference to reasons. By registrant ‘s request the registrar shall be bound to provide refusal in writing.

4. Concluding provisions

4.1. Within the lifetime of the present Procedures, the administrator of domain name may not:
4.1.1. transfer support of information of the domain name to another registrar;
4.1.2. transfer the rights for administration to another individual, except for the following events:
- disposition of the exclusive rights to the trademark with respect to all goods and services (in case of owners of exclusive rights to trademark);
- reorganization of the legal entity;
- modification of the composition of founding members (in case of mass media);
- entry into legal force of the  decision by the court of law regarding rights to domain name.
4.2. Registration of the domain name exercised within the priority registration period shall be annulled by the registrar in the events of exposure of violations of conditions enumerated in clauses 2.1, 3.1.1-3.1.6, 3.2.1, 3.2.2, 3.3.1, 3.4.1, 3.4.2, 3.5.1-3.5.3 of the present Procedures and (or) exposure of false data provided by the registrant (administrator) in compliance with clause 3.1.7, 3.2.3, 3.3.2, 3.4.3, 3.5.4 of the present Procedures.
4.3.The present Procedures may be amended by the decision of the Coordinator. The Coordinator shall be bound to notify the registrars of modifications in the present Procedures not later than in 10 (ten) calendar days prior to the date of modifications coming into effect.
4.4. All acts associated with the priority domain names registration shall be exercised in compliance with the version of the present Procedures effective as of the date of these acts.
4.5. The present Procedures shall come into effect from the date of its approval by the Coordinator’s Board and shall be effective through 30 September 2010, except for conditions specified in clauses 4.1, 4.2 of the present Procedures. Clauses 4.1, 4.2 of the present Procedures shall be effective through 30 September 2011.

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