Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.uz) — The 19th International Conference of Administrators and Registrars of National Top-Level Domains of Eastern Europe and Central Asia, TLDCON 2026, has concluded in Tashkent.
Over two days, participants discussed developments in the domain industry, internet infrastructure, cybersecurity, regulation, artificial intelligence and workforce training.
The conference was organised by the Coordination Center for TLD .RU/.РФ and the Russian Institute for Network Development (ROSNIROS), with UZINFOCOM serving as the host. The conference organisers said.
On the first day, three memorandums of understanding and cooperation were signed with the administrators of the national domain zones of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan — KazNIC (.KZ), UZINFOCOM (.UZ) and AZIAINFO (.KG).
The agreements provide for cooperation on improving security and preventing abuse in the DNS, exchanging experience in managing domain zones, implementing internationalised domain names (IDNs) and organising joint educational initiatives.
The conference programme also covered developments in Russia’s domain industry. Coordination Center Director Andrey Vorobyov outlined new domain registration rules, including mandatory identification through the Unified Identification and Authentication System (ESIA), introduced on 1 September 2026, as well as the replacement of the accreditation system with inclusion of companies in an official registrar list.
Particular attention was paid to the development of multilingualism in the .РФ domain. The permitted character set was expanded by 26 letters, allowing more than 2,000 domains to be registered with consideration for the writing systems of Russia’s peoples.
Participants also discussed changes in the .SU domain, including registry normalisation, an updated WHOIS system, the introduction of transfers using AuthInfo codes, and the use of Escrow and EBERO systems to ensure service continuity.
According to MSK-IX CEO Evgeny Morozov, the DNS infrastructure of Russia’s national domains processes about 20 billion requests per day through 29 nodes in 21 cities worldwide.
A separate discussion focused on special service regimes for sensitive categories of domains. Experts examined approaches to protecting government resources and Kazakhstan’s experience in integrating domain mechanisms with government registries.
Artificial intelligence was one of the conference’s central top
