Cyrillic IDN .РФ May Be Assigned This Week – Domain Name News, The Domain Industry News, ICANN News, Registry News, Domainer News, Domain

Hot on the heels of the launch of Arabic internationalised domain names (IDNs) last week, The Moscow Times is reporting Cyrillic IDNs may become available this week. Representatives from ICANN may officially assign the .рф TLD to Russia at the Internet Governance Forum meeting in Moscow that begins this Thursday The Moscow Times reports. "We’re really expecting it within days. As soon as the domain is delegated it will start working, because everything is ready on our side," Andrei Vorobyov, a spokesman for Ru-Center, told The Moscow Times.
To read this report in The Moscow Times in full, see:
www.themoscowtimes.com/business/article/cyrillic-domains-may-start-working-this-week/405775.html
David Goldstein