.РФ top level IDN domain has been delegeated tonight to Russian Federation .xn--p1ai First websites in .рф are available at http://президент.рф http://правительство.рф

This is a very brief blog post with quite the big content. Last week was a special week at ICANN, with several IDN milestones meet. Many were included in the 22 April 2010 ICANN Board meeting. The ICANN Board approved the first IDN ccTLD delegation requests for four countries. These countries are: Egypt, the Russian [...]

On May 12, 2010 RU-CENTER launches the second stage of sunrise registration for .РФ domains – available for the owners of trademarks which verbal part contains scripts, other than Cyrillic. From April 20, 2010  RU-CENTER accepts .РФ domains registration pre-orders from this category of trademark holders. The clients who submitted a pre-order, and if it [...]

The IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process was launched on 16 November 2009. As of that date eligible countries and territories were able to request their respective IDN ccTLD(s) through the process. The process entails three steps: (i) Preparations in country/territory (ii) String Evaluation, and (iii) String Delegation. All steps are described in detail in the [...]

ICANN is pleased to announce the successful completion of the IDN ccTLD Fast Track String Evaluation for four (4) proposed IDN ccTLDs. The requests are associated with: Egypt, the Russian Federation, United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia. Details of the successful evaluations are provided here. The IDN (Internationalised Domain Name) ccTLD Fast Track Process was [...]

Today, November 25, 2009 starting 12.00 MSK trademark holders and state authorities may enjoy .РФ Domains Sunrise Registration as per the approved schedule. RU-CENTER clients – Russian-named trademark holders may register .РФ domains at 1200 rub (including VAT). Sunrise registration is provided for domain names corresponding to verbal symbols of the trademark registered with respect [...]

So now that the media hype over internationalized domain names (IDNs) has died down, let’s focus on the messy details of what this all means. First of all, we’re not about to see the non-Latin equivalent of .com anytime soon. Certainly not next year. There are several reason for this which I will cover in [...]

November 9, 2009 The Kremlin, Moscow   MINISTER OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND MASS COMMUNICATIONS IGOR SHCHEGOLEV: I am ready to brief you on the implementation of your instruction regarding promotion of the Russian language in the Internet address system. PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA DMITRY MEDVEDEV: Yes, as I recall, active discussion of this matter began a year [...]

Seoul, Oct 27 Andrei Kolesnikov THE .РФ PROJECT • October 30, 2009 –you know… • As soon as Fast Track opens, all documents ready • Accept financial conditions • November 2, 2009 -… start accreditation of registrars forIDN ccTLD.РФ • 25 of November, 2009 –25 of March, 2010 –priority registration for Cyrillic TM’s • April [...]

As mentioned earlier, the registration of TLDs ( .рф for Russian Federation) will take place starting 16 November 2009. Afterwards, the accreditation of Second Level Domains (SLDs) will commence at the end of November. At the top of the priorities list are the Governmental institutions (eligible for free registration), trade mark owners and the administrative centres in [...]