Posted on November 17, 2010, 11:12 am, by IDN News, under
ICANN,
ICANN Blog.
November 11, 2010, marked the day when the new IDN ccTLD .рф (Cyrillic for Российская Федерация, Russian Federation) was opened for general registration. Prior to that date the registration was open only for trademark owners and governmental institutions. Before the registration started, in an interview for the КоммерсантЪ (Commersant) daily, Andrey Kolesnikov, CEO of the […]
Last week DnJournal reported рф.com cyrillic IDN sold for $60k in private deal. DNJournal: The #2 domain was a big IDN sale. рф.com was sold by Bruce Caley for $60,000 in a private transaction. The interest in this domain stems from the fact that .рф is the new Russian language (Cyrillic) IDN TLD using the […]
Posted on November 25, 2009, 11:29 pm, by IDN News, under
IDN Industry.
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 […]
Posted on November 6, 2008, 1:24 pm, by Nick Wilsdon, under
Blogs.
After several months of speculation, ICANN have awarded Russia the first non-latin domain extension; .РФ (.RF). This will be available from next July according to Kommersant, the Russian newspaper
The .РФ zone domains are expected to cover roughly 20 percent of current .RU, forecasted Dmitry Ufaev, the managing partner at RBC Hosting Center. Some 1.75 million […]
Posted on October 24, 2008, 11:29 pm, by CircleID:, under
Exclusive.
Igor Schegolev, the Russian Minister of Telecom and Mass Communications spoke at the opening of the InfoCom 2008 exhibition in Moscow. Among other things, which made news (for example, that the Russian government will be implementing a free and open source based operating system on all computers in the Russian schools), he also made the following remarks – translated by me in English. More…
Posted on June 16, 2008, 3:29 pm, by Nick Wilsdon, under
Blogs.
Dmitry Medvedev, President of the Russian Federation has thrown his weight behind the campaign for a new Cyrillic IDN for the country. The Moscow Times reports that this is part of a new drive to promote Russian as a global language.
He said 300 million people worldwide used Russian media and that a Cyrillic domain name […]
Posted on June 12, 2008, 12:06 pm, by Michael Lawrence, under
Blogs.
Dmitry Medvedev the President of Russia has stated “We must do everything we can to make sure that we achieve in the future a Cyrillic Internet domain name,” Mr Medvedev told the International Congress of Russian Press in Moscow. “It is a pretty serious thing. With the development of the IDN’s the Cyrillic Internet […]