Hi
I have a customer who is hosting a few .ru sites with me.. and when
he went to change the name servers at nameserver.ru he said it is
asking him for some information like this:

They ask for NIC of new domain maintain services, in form
of "something - MNT-RIPN"

Do you know what this means and what kind of info I am supposed to
provide for this?
Thanks
DejaT

http://194.226.65.158/nic/dns/en/mnt_t.html

mntner:

Unique maintainer identifier - word made of Latin capital letters, figures and dashes, not coinciding with other maintainer identifiers registered in RIPN database. The identifier should end with -MNT-RIPN characters and contain not more than 64 characters.

Unique maintainer identifier is selected by the Applicant. You can check if the identifier is unique with
whois -h whois.ripn.net <NAME-MNT-RIPN>
or using Whois services.

Use of unique maintainer identifiers from RIPE database (European Center for IP net development) is not allowed.

[Mandatory] [Single] [Read-Only] [Open]

Example:

mntner: NTIME1-MNT-RIPN

Your customer must register his .ru domain outside ripn.net . In this case they should either contact the person where they registered their domain or register one at ripn.net