Is it impossible to register in “.by” zone?

The State Center of Information Security under the auspices of the Belarusian president has temporarily suspended issuing certificates of domain names’ ownership to their owners.

Requests for registration in by zone are declined as well. According to reports in blogs , the following answer was received to a request to register a nine.by website:

“Your request for registration a website nine.by is declined by the State Center of Information Security under the auspices of the Belarusian president. You can find out the exact details of the negative response in the State Center of Information Security (Kalvaryjskaya Str. 17 a, Minsk, Belarus)”.

It is stated that such an answer has been received top at least 6 requests for registration of a domain.

It should be added that owners of websites need domain ownership certificates for instance if they have online store s and want to enter the site address to their license.