Russian company approved as gTLD escrow provider
ICANN has approved Russian internet exchange point MSK-IX as its 10th gTLD data escrow provider.
The organization said that week that Joint Stock Company “Internet Exchange “MSK-IX” has been added to its roster of companies fighting for gTLD registries escrow business.
MSK-IX is mainly in the business of operating an internet peering hub — a location where ISPs can connect their networks to backbones and to each other — in Moscow.
It becomes the fourth escrow provider in Europe, and the only one in Europe outside of the EU.
There are also five approved providers in Asia and only one — original provider Iron Mountain — in North America.
ICANN says it is not currently looking for any more providers.
gTLD registries are contractually obliged to periodically put their domain and registrant data into escrow, on the off-chance they go out of business and domains need to be transferred to a different company.
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