The Verkhovna Rada registered a bill on the registration of domain names №7357, which relates to the control over the state domain zone GOV.UA. The text of the document is not available on the Verkhovna Rada’s website at the moment,
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Thus, the Deputy Chairman of the Committee, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Digital and Smart Infrastructure, Electronic Communications, Cyber Security and Cyber Defense of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Digital Transformation, People’s Deputy from the “Servant of the People” Alexander Fedienko commented on the bill.
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“Two years ago, I started a reform on cybersecurity, this reform included a huge pile of various bills. One of the components of the cyber environment is the domain zone. This is, for example, the domain zone GOV.UA. This is a purely state domain zone, in which government agencies should be located. Analyzing all the domains that have accumulated in this domain zone in 30 years, we came to the conclusion that a huge number of cyberattacks are carried out using this domain zone. Why? Because for 30 years the state has not controlled this domain zone, “Fedienko said.
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According to him, there is a technical administrator, he registered the domain at the request of a government agency or agency, but when the agency or a government agency closed, the site remained, the content remained and no one managed it.
According to the explanatory note, today the administrator of the GOV.UA domain is a privately owned business entity – Hostmeister LLC, which provides measures for administrative support of the special public domain, ensuring its efficiency and provides technical support for the Register.
Therefore, there is an unfavorable situation, because the private company, according to the law, has no right to influence the executive authorities, other state authorities and local governments, to oblige to implement and monitor the implementation of the legislation of this category of entities.
As a result, the initiators of the bill came to the conclusion that there is a need that the functions of administration and technical support of domain names in the domain GOV.UA should be separated and the function of administration should be performed exclusively by public authorities and not by private ownership.
“Conditionally speaking, these were abandoned information platforms located in the GOV.UA state zone. Those who wanted to could use them, I even found there, for example, the site GOV.UA, which offers animal feed or a huge pile of pornographic content and so on. Therefore, the main purpose of the bill is to conduct an appropriate audit of all government sites. To whom do they belong, on what basis do they belong. If there are abandoned sites, close them, cancel them further, so that the state controls everything related to the GOV.UA domain zone, “Fedienko explained.
Pavlo Frolov, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Rules of Procedure of the Verkhovna Rada of the Committee on Rules of Procedure, Deputy Ethics and Organization of Verkhovna Rada, added that the relations on domain administration, registration and domain name service ICANN), the US government and international organizations.
Frolov said that the purpose of the bill is to regulate relations in the field of registration, continuation of registration, re-registration, removal of domain names by the executive authorities of Ukraine, other public authorities and local governments in the public domain GOV.UA.
“The bill proposes, in particular, at the legislative level to establish the procedure for maintaining the Registers of domain names of executive authorities, other state bodies, local governments, set requirements for the Administrator, Technical Operator, Registrar and entities in the field of administration, registration and use domain names in the public domain GOV.UA “, – said Frolov.
According to him, among other things, it is planned to locate exclusively on the territory of Ukraine software and hardware, which houses state electronic information resources for which the domain name is registered, as well as measures to monitor compliance with legislation by executive authorities and other state bodies. authorities and local governments in this area.
Source: Ukrgate
