"The Runet Evolution Rating", the new issue of the CC’s analytical Bulletin, has come out. >>>

At an extended meeting held on 23 January, the Registrars Committee discussed prospective solutions to the problem of vacated domains registration. The Committee meeting was attended by representatives of the Technical Center of Internet (TCI) and the CC’s Council members. >>>

On 13 January the Coordination Center for TLD RU/РФ held a press conference “Domain spaces administration strategy in 2012” in the ITAR-TASS press center, which was attended by leading domain industry experts, technical experts, registrars’ and NGO representatives. >>>

The number of top-level domains is set to grow significantly in the near future: from 12 January, ICANN will begin accepting applications to operate new generic top-level domains. >>>

Statistical online resource “Domains of Russia” has got a new section “Internet penetration in Russia”. The section demonstrates distribution of the monthly online audience across the federal okrugs and regions in Russia. >>>

The Coordination Center for TLD RU and Group-IB have signed an agreement on combating cyber threats in domains .РФ and .RU. >>>

New Registrar, “United Domain Names” LLC successfully passed the accreditation procedure in domains .RU and .РФ. >>>

Andrey Kolesnikov, the CC’s CEO, joined the public expert Council to debate on-line video broadcasts from polling stations in RF. The RF Ministry of Telecommunications and Mass Media initiated the creation of the Council. It is envisaged that during the 2012presidential elections in Russia video broadcasts from 94 thousand polling stations will be streamed onto the Internet. >>>

The Coordination Center for TLD RU/РФ and the “Friendly Runet” Foundation,  a division of the Safe Internet League –– signed an agreement on combating the spread of illicit content on the Web. >>>

Next DNS node designated for servicing domains .RU, .SU and .РФ was deployed in Hong Kong in early December. Thanks to the DNS node’s location, from now on the Asian users’ requests to Russian domains will be processed faster. >>>