The site nekos.innov.ru in the innov.ru zone belonged to the non-profit partnership "Nizhny Novgorod Ecological Commonwealth" (NEkoS) — an association of environmental business entrepreneurs, scientists, and representatives of regulatory bodies[1]. The site was listed in the nn.ru directory (the /rub/ section); the earliest snapshot of its home page in the web archive is dated October 21, 2000[1].

What the site offered

The home page described NEkoS as a non-profit partnership open "to all organizations and private individuals concerned about environmental protection and public health issues"[1]. As the home page stated, the association's goals were "the environmental safety of the city and region," the development and implementation of technologies for the rational use of natural resources, the production of environmentally friendly goods, the processing of industrial waste, the development of environmental auditing and management, and the prevention of environmentally caused illnesses[1]. Separately, the partnership stated that it defended the interests of environmental business entrepreneurs and sought tax benefits for them[1]. The page also explicitly stated political ambitions: "we have not abandoned the idea of putting forward our associates for representative bodies of government"[1]. In terms of design, the page offered a choice of encoding for viewing the text — "win | koi | iso | dos," a set of Cyrillic encoding options typical of the Russian internet of the late 1990s and early 2000s[1]. The copyright notice on the early snapshot indicated a connection between the site and the Volga-Vyatka Innovation Center of Higher Education[1]. By the snapshot from February 11, 2005, the page's text had not changed, except for the development credit — "Design: INNOV.RU"[2].

Place in the Nizhny Novgorod internet

The site was listed in the nn.ru directory, but no data on its standing in the Counter.nn.ru ranking or votes as part of the Nizhny Novgorod Internet Day is recorded in our data — it does not appear in the surviving counter samples.

How it closed

The last recorded snapshot of the home page in the web archive available in this material is dated February 11, 2005 — at that point the site's text remained unchanged[2]. The domain nekos.innov.ru did not exist at the time this entry was compiled.

Sources

  1. web.archive.org — Home page, 2000 (archive)
  2. web.archive.org — Home page, 2005 (archive)