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Russia calls for an end of Whois in Dot RU
May 2nd, 2007 by 
Jay Westerdal
My Russian may be a little bit broken so forgive the translation, I have attempted to read the Russian newspaper where they reported this story first. But appearently Russia is trying to remove whois on their .RU domain names. Here is the translated story.
Information on the ownership of Russian sites in the coming months may be totally secret. The most popular international blast zone. Com has long earned the willingness of owners to maintain Internet sites incognito. Under the Personal Data, which entered into force on January 30, 2007, the written consent of every person to the inclusion of personal data in public facilities. Some organizations have been suspended for bringing his public bases in line with the law until January 2008 or January 2010. According to the Russian Research Institute of public networks (RosNIIROS, Focal Point domain. Ru), in late 2006. In Runete there were more than 700,000 sites belonging to nearly 329,000 owners.
Currently online RosNIIROSa (www.ripn.net) on the WhoIs contact name and contact telephone owner of a site in the cloud. For example, you can find out what famous site compromat.ru owns Sergei Gorshkov. But that may not always be the case. According to the head of Public Relations Ru-Center (the largest domain registrar Runete) Andrei Vorobiev, RosNIIROS together with the domain registrars are now discussing how to give site owners a choice-run or not public access to your personal data.
According to him, the base WhoIs RosNIIROS should be brought into line with the law only by January 1, 2010. But Russian registrars want to give site owners the opportunity to hide themselves within a few months, explains Vorobiev. He said that in the public domain registrars will retain only the e-mail address owner of the site, because it could not obtain any personal information about the person.
Russia is not the first country to safeguarding personal data owners. The American organization ICANN, which maintains a register domain of Dot Com, now requires the owners to disclose the name and phone number for the WhoIs. However, according to Vorobiev, some companies to pay to register sites anonymously, as they apply them on, and then the real owner operates the site.
ICANN representative in the CIS Veni Markovski said “Vedomosti” that the principles of the base WhoIs should consider July 30 a member of the ICANN organization supporting domain names GNSO, which are attended by representatives of various countries. According to him, Russia should work more actively in the GNSO.
However, all wishing to remain anonymous can still call her real name or phone number, said renowned Paul Gross. According to him, nor RosNIIROS, or ICANN does not check the accuracy of these data.
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May 2nd, 2007 at 11:48 am
Slashdot effect: http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/07/05/02/177248.shtml
May 2nd, 2007 at 1:05 pm
Should it come as a surprise that Russia might decide to opt out? Probably not, but then maybe they are wondering if a new Cold War is
in the offing, after the U S decides to depart Iraq. Not to justify these Russian actions, the entire global whois should be basically open, but American actions, sometimes even largely innocent actions, can reverberate around the globe.Perhaps when George W. Bush has left office, after the 2008 election, maybe American intentions will not be as suspect, by friend or enemy.
May 2nd, 2007 at 7:18 pm
Hey Jay - read the article over once again.
They aren’t saying they will remove whois on .RU domain names, just that they are planning to give domain owners a choice of having their contact details publicly visible or private in the whois database.
That’s been common in com/net/org for years now - check out the ‘domain privacy’ options like whoisguard, domainsbyproxy etc services offered by all the com/net/org registrars, like GoDaddy. They just propose to give that sort of privacy system legal recognition in .RU in future.
Oh, and please update your knowledge of current events. The Soviet Union hasn’t existed for 15 years.
Perhaps you’ve heard about this new country called “Russia”, which has its own flag. You can read more about this country called “Russia” on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia.
You can also probably get from Wikipedia an image of the actual flag for this “Russia”, which certainly isn’t a red flag with a hammer and sickle on it.
May 3rd, 2007 at 6:33 am
Not showing anything but the email is just like removing whois. If there is no contact name or address, it really isn’t whois. The headline is figurative and illustrates the message.
Actually DoaminsByProxy still must list their contact information. DomainsByProxy actually owns the domain name, not the person behind it. Read the ICANN RAA contract carefully.
I like the Soviet Union flag, so I am sticking with it. The new Russian flag is boring.
May 4th, 2007 at 4:15 am
Actually the headline is misleading. The new Russian law was accepted last year, is in effect as of this year, but the issues about Whois database will be on the agenda in another 2.5 years. And it’s not about ending the whois, but about protecting the personal data. Similar laws are accepted throughout Europe.