LOS ANGELES – The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced that Joint Stock Company "Internet Exchange "MSK-IX" has been approved to provide data escrow services to generic top-level domain (gTLD) registry operators.

According to Corporation, all gTLD registry operators are required to regularly deposit a backup copy of their top-level domain (TLD) registration data through one of the ICANN-approved data escrow service providers. The data held in escrow may be released to the ICANN organization (ICANN org) under certain circumstances in order to preserve the stability of the TLD in case of an emergency.