"We try to avoid situations where the domain administrator is a liquidated legal entity
Posted: Sat Jan 18, 2025 8:40 am
We usually learn about such domains after the successors apply. Moreover, domain names registered to liquidated legal entities, as a rule, do not undergo the annual identification procedure: when the administrator must upload the necessary documents to confirm the relevance of the data. Thus, their delegation is terminated," said Mehdi Nizamizade, a lawyer for the hosting provider and domain registrar Reg.ru.
He recalled that, according to the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, turkey whatsapp number list a liquidated legal entity cannot be a party to an agreement and, when resolving the issue of cancellation of a domain belonging to it, the issue of succession will play a major role.
Ru-Center stated that they conduct regular checks of the Federal Tax Service database for the legal status of legal entity administrators.
“If information about the termination of a legal entity is discovered, Ru-Center will send a notice in advance to the contact addresses in the registrar’s database that the domain registration will be cancelled in accordance with the requirements of the law and the Rules for the registration of domain names in the .RU and .РФ domains,” said Ru-Center press manager Stanislav Grushevsky.
At the same time, the approaches of registrar companies to working with domains released after division differ. Ru-Center says that if an interested party, for example, one of the top managers of a closed company, can prove their “involvement” in the domain being cancelled, then they can become its administrator. Reg.ru, however, said that in the event of the liquidation of a legal entity, the company’s top managers “have no more rights to the domain name than any other person”, since these people are not legal successors.
He recalled that, according to the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, turkey whatsapp number list a liquidated legal entity cannot be a party to an agreement and, when resolving the issue of cancellation of a domain belonging to it, the issue of succession will play a major role.
Ru-Center stated that they conduct regular checks of the Federal Tax Service database for the legal status of legal entity administrators.
“If information about the termination of a legal entity is discovered, Ru-Center will send a notice in advance to the contact addresses in the registrar’s database that the domain registration will be cancelled in accordance with the requirements of the law and the Rules for the registration of domain names in the .RU and .РФ domains,” said Ru-Center press manager Stanislav Grushevsky.
At the same time, the approaches of registrar companies to working with domains released after division differ. Ru-Center says that if an interested party, for example, one of the top managers of a closed company, can prove their “involvement” in the domain being cancelled, then they can become its administrator. Reg.ru, however, said that in the event of the liquidation of a legal entity, the company’s top managers “have no more rights to the domain name than any other person”, since these people are not legal successors.