Domain Coordination Center.ru/.rf and MSK-IX have implemented a backup domain registration system

2021: Implementing a backup domain registration system

Domain Coordination Center.RU/.RF On August 10, 2021, he announced that MSK-IX they had implemented a backup registration system together with. domains

MSK-IX acts as the Operator of the reserve registration system (EBERO - Emergency Back-end Registry Operators), and the system itself is developed and operated by MSK-IX and allows to guarantee the continuous operation of the addressing system of Russian national domains .RU and .PF.

The transition to the standby registration system can be carried out by the decision of the registry if the current operator of the registration system is unable to ensure that the main functions of the registration system are maintained at the required level. Such functions include, among other things, providing registrars with the opportunity to interact with.RU and. registries, RUSSIAN FEDERATION make records and receive information from registries, ensuring the operation of the registration service (data WHOIS), as well as support - DNSservers domain zones.RU and.RF and DNS zone distribution management. The use of the EBERO tool is one of the innovations of the New gTLD program and serves as a guarantee of stable and reliable operation of the global domain addressing system as a whole.

At the end of June 2021, specialists of the.RU/.RF Domain Coordination Center and MSK-IX completed joint functional testing of the backup registration system, and from July 2021, the backup registration system was put on standby readiness to temporarily take over the main functions of the.RU/.RF domain registration system.