After a three-year break, we are resuming our offline meetings of ccTLD registries and registrars of the CIS, Central and Eastern Europe, and this year we invite you to Petrozavodsk, the capital of Karelia.
Our TLDCON 2023 will traditionally be held in September. “Day zero” of the conference will take place on September 11, when our speakers will meet with students and teaching staff of Petrozavodsk universities and colleges and give them interesting lectures on the development of the internet and domain space in Russia and in the world. In the evening, there will be a welcome cocktail reception for all conference participants.
September 12 and 13 are the working days of TLDCON 2023. The program also includes a tour of Petrozavodsk and its suburbs on the afternoon of September 13.
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Petrozavodsk is located in the northwest of Russia: it is 1,000 km away from Moscow, and 450 km from St. Petersburg. Getting here is easy: the railway station is situated near the city center, with about 20 trains arriving here daily. The travel time from Moscow is 11 hours, and 5.5 hours from St. Petersburg. There is also an airport half an hour away from the city; the travel time from Moscow is about 1.5 hours.
The city sits on the shores of Lake Onega, surrounded on the other sides by forests. The main attraction here is the beautiful Karelian nature, which brings thousands of tourists here every year. Therefore, Petrozavodsk has many hotels and guest houses. TLDCON 2023 will be held at the Fregat Hotel on the shores of Lake Onega, and we are also ready to suggest several other hotels for accommodation, which were selected by our event specialists. Some of them offer special prices for conference participants. For more details, see the Venue section.
The Coordination Center for TLD .RU/.РФ has hosted the International conference for ccTLD registries and registrars of CIS, Central and Eastern Europe since 2008.
The conference aims to engage leading registrars from different ccTLDs into discussions on the Internet issues; as well the conference will focus on organization of interaction between ccTLDs registries and registrars. This issue has become pressing in the light of a prompt development of national segments of the Internet.
In light of the business globalization and changing of business models Internet market should always seek new opportunities for extending the international cooperation, as well as development the global domain names market.
