More than 200,000 .РФ domain names were registered on day one of open registration for the Russian national Cyrillic domain. Open registration commenced on 11 November with any Russian citizen now entitled to register a .РФ domain.

The Bulgarian Ministry of Transport, Information Technologies and Communications has recently announced that they will propose four new cyrillic domain names. This decision was made due to the recent refusal of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers .ICANN has recently refused Bulgaria’s proposal for the cyrillic sufix “бг”

As of Tuesday 25 May there were 476 .РФ domain names registered, Yulia Ovchinnikova of Russia’s Coordination Center for the National Internet Domain said in a report on RIA Novosti.

[unable to retrieve full-text content] As of Tuesday 25 May there were 476 .РФ domain names registered, Yulia Ovchinnikova of Russia’s Coordination Center for the National Internet Domain said in a report on RIA Novosti. .РФ is the Cyrillic Top Level Domain for Russia.

Following on from last week’s report on the introduction of internationalised domain names (IDNs) in Arabic languages, Russia has introduced the first Cyrillic country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) IDN.

Forbes Gets $300000 From Cybersquatter The Moscow Times With the launch of Cyrillic domain names for commercial entities later this year, some fear.

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MOSCOW ? The Kremlin has long been irritated by the way the United States dominates the Internet, all the way down to the ban on using Cyrillic for Web.

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