Legality of trading in .РФ domain registrations from Ru-Center

Question

Domain name market

For pre-registration of domains in the .РФ zone, RU-CENTER holds an auction. Those. if there are more than one applicants for domain registration, then bidding is held between them.

And now attention, the question:
How does Ru-Center have the right to sell the opportunity to register a domain in advance, if the domain does not have an owner, i.e. they sell air, because Ru-Center itself is not the owner of the domain. And in general, the question is, who is the initiator of .RF domains? I think Ru-Center plays a huge role there, because. I present the scale of this Auction promotion, for the domains of the category Rabota.RF, Construction.RF, etc.

How is it even legal they do?

Answer 1

The domain is in any case air. In this case, they sell the right to register a domain.
Although, of course, all this is a big legalized scam.

Answer 2

Legal, but - Attention, speculation on open registration of Russian domains .

Answer 3

Rucenter will be the owner of the domain if it can register it. And then it will be raffled off between the applicants. And then it will be reissued to the winner.
The scheme has been working for quite a long time and is described in the contract - that is, it is 100% legal.

Answer 4

To be more precise, Rucenter offers this: “An auction for the right to register a domain in your name, if this particular registrar company registers it earlier than any other registrar company.”
It turns out a double competition - first, users compete with each other "who will pay more", and then registrar companies - "who will buy faster."