Domain names

Domain names and trademarks in the Russian Internet

Russia owns one
of the world’s largest

national domain zones

8 place
in the world

6,3 million domain names

+5,83% average annual growth

.RU zone

.РФ zone

Who is the holder of these domain names and their matching trademarks?

Domain without protection

only 1,2% of all registered domains are protected as trademarks

Among 1,2% of all registered domains that match with the same trademarks

at least 2 trademarks fall on one domain

75 985

domains registered in .RU and .РФ zones match the same trademarks

175 700

Russian trademarks match the same domains registered in .RU and .РФ zones

98,8% indicator of the vulnerable status of domain holders

75% of those domains that match the same trademarks are in the risk zone

Among many matching trademarks and domains, trademark holder and domain administrator

75% don't match

25% match

Out of all trademarks registered in Russia
44% match the same domain names in zones .RU and .РФ

Russia is the 13th in the world
by the number of registered trademarks

400 717 November 2017 valid
trademarks_*

633 974 among the ones registered
according to the national procedure all existing
trademarks_*

56% — market volume indicator
for cybersquatters

225,000 valid trademarks have no matches
among domain names

annually +8,31%

Domain disputes

Russians normally argue about domains in .RU and .РФ zones

th place among the countries of defendants’ origin under the UDRP procedure (2016)

49 UDRP cases in 2016
involved defendants from Russia

For .RU and .РФ zones in 2014-2016 ~60-90

annual domain disputes

Simplified procedures do not apply to domain dispute resolution (under UDRP or URS) for the Russian national .RU and .РФ domain zones

The most popular domains by the number of matching trademarks

35 INFINITI.RU trademarks

34 ТОРНАДО.РФ trademarks

Several trademarks registered for various goods and services may «claim» the right to the same domain name

1 INFINITI.RU — 35 trademarks
2 ТОРНАДО.РФ — 34 trademarks
3 ЧУДО.РФ — 30 trademarks
4 ORANGE.RU — 29 trademarks
5 PLAYBOY.RU — 26 trademarks

It's not that simple

even 26 trademarks does not secure the right to the matching domain name

TOP 10 domain names matching the largest number of trademarks includes:

The holder of the largest portfolio of trademarks is not always the administrator of the matching domain name

100% PLAYBOY trademarks (26) are owned by Playboy (excluding playboy.ru and play-boy.ru)

86% INFINITI trademarks are owned by Nissan (as well as the INFINITI.RU domain)

65% JAGUAR trademarks are owned by Jaguar as well as the jaguar.ru domain

29 643 trademarks matching the same domain names
are in the retail market

The most popular registration classes 38% of the total number of the valid trademarks

class 35

includes advertising, business management and administration, and office functions the 2nd and 3rd most popular classes:

42 &9

relate to software development

Shares of the most popular registration classes (35, 42 and 9) in the variety of trademarks matching the same domain names

Business without domain

company websites are administered by individuals

84%

of all domain owners are individuals

16%

of all domain administrators are legal entities

45,9% of all Russian businesses own a website

84% of all domain owners are individuals

At least 40%

of company domain administrators are individuals

Domain portfolios in .RU and .РФ zones

90%

own portfolios of up to 1000 domain names

of which

73%

own portfolios of up to 50 domain names

The biggest domain portfolio owned by an individual has

62 323

domain names in it

16% of all domain administrators
in .RU and .РФ zones are legal entities

290 293

the largest number of domain names
owned by a legal entity

The second largest portfolio administered by a legal entity consists of 10 045 domains

which constitutes 5% of all registered domain names in .RU and .РФ zones

5% of all domain names in .RU and .РФ zones are owned by the company called

Private person

This is the actual business name of the company that owns the largest portfolio of domains registered in .RU and .РФ zones

Don’t mix it up with an individual :)

TOP 5

of domain administrators that are legal entities are:

2 1ГБ.РУ
3 DATAHOST LTD
4 ООО «БЭКОРДЕР.РУ»
5 ООО «КРЕОБИТС»

The largest domain
portfolios in Russia

74% of trademarks

are concentrated in portfolios of those right holders that own no more than 10 trademarks

TOP 3 owners of the valid trademarks includes:

Unilever 1157 trademarks

Philip Morris 908 trademarks

Novartis 833 trademarks

The second largest trademark portfolio in Russia

is consolidated between three connected legal entities

1029 valid trademarks

Association of business cooperation of Afghanistan War veterans («MIR»)
New Technologies Pty Ltd
Trade house «MIR-2000»

Owners of large trademark portfolios

have a more active legal position than professional domain market players (data from 2010–2017)

57 number of litigations involving Association of business cooperation of Afghanistan war veterans («MIR»), New Technologies Pty Ltd, and Shopping Mall «MIR-2000»

14 number of litigations involving TOP 10 administrators of the largest domain portfolios

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Domain Names and trademarks in the Russian Internet Results of the analytical research of the composition and ratio of the registered trademarks on the territory of the Russian Federation and registered domain names in top-level domains .RU and .РФ