Стартовала открытая регистрация доменов в первой кириллической интернет-зоне .РФ

Стартовала открытая регистрация доменов в первой кириллической интернет-зоне .РФ Получить адрес в Интернете на русском языке теперь сможет каждый россиянин.

Средняя стоимость регистрации сайта в зоне .РФ, по словам директора координационного центра национального домена сети Интернет Андрея Колесникова, как и в зоне .RU, составит 500-600 руб. "Те, кто захочет зарегистрировать несколько доменов, может получить скидку", - добавил он. Варианты возможных названий сайтов будут ограничены стоп-листом, в который вошли порядка 5 тыс слов, в том числе, относящихся к ненормативной лексике.
Принимать заявки на домены будут 18 российских регистраторов. Согласно правилам, принятым советом координационного центра национального домена сети Интернет, в первый год открытой регистрации иностранцы и юрлица, зарегистрированные за пределами России, обзавестись русскоязычным доменным именем не смогут. Кроме того, право администрирования доменного имени, зарегистрированного в период с 11 ноября 2010 г по 10 ноября 2011 г, не может быть передано другому лицу в течение года.
Компания REG.RU начала принимать предварительные заявки на домены .РФ еще в июне 2010 г. "На данный момент их количество превышает все ожидания",- отмечает регистратор. По оценке гендиректора компании Алексея Королюка, в первый день открытой регистрации в зоне .РФ появятся не менее 50 тыс доменных имен, за первый месяц - около 100 тыс доменов. "А через три года домен .РФ может "догнать" зону .RU, в которой 25 сентября 2010 года был зарегистрирован юбилейный, 3-миллионный домен", - считает А.Королюк. Наибольшей популярностью, по его мнению, в новой зоне будут пользоваться названия компаний и персональные домены, например сидоров.рф.
Другой регистратор, компания RU-Center, получила на данный момент около 135 тыс предварительных заявок.
Россия стала первой страной, получившей право на создание доменной зоны на национальном языке. Идею создания национального домена на кириллице поддержал и президент РФ Дмитрий Медведев. Россия подала заявку на делегирование национального кириллического домена 16 ноября 2009 г, а приоритетная регистрация доменных имен для госорганов и компаний началась 25 ноября 2009 г. Первыми сайтами в зоне .РФ стали президент. рф и правительство.рф, они появились 12 мая 2010 г. Позже право зарегистрировать русскоязычный домен получили СМИ и НКО. Этот этап завершился в середине сентября, всего зарегистрировано более 18 тыс доменных имен.

Источник: ПРАЙМ-ТАСС

Cyrillic Domain Names Sell Fast

The body overseeing the .рф Internet domain said 184,352 addresses were snapped up Thursday as registration was opened to the general public, though some of the sexiest real estate was already long gone.
More than 36,000 addresses were registered in the first hour alone, the Coordination Center for the National Internet Domain said on its web site. The center's director, Andrei Kolesnikov, had predicted that the 100,000 mark would only be broken by the end of the year.
State bodies and trademark holders were given priority access to the Cyrillic addresses, with registration beginning Nov. 25, 2009. About 18,000 addresses were registered before the process was opened to the public, bringing the total to more than 200,0000 by 6 p.m., the center said.
The first 10 addresses registered Thursday were for nondescript, common nouns: работа.рф (work); видео.рф (video); автозапчасти.рф (auto parts); магазин.рф (store); бизнес.рф (business); игры.рф (games); телефон.рф (telephone); золото.рф (gold); квартира.рф (apartment); сайт.рф (site).
None of the sites was online as of Thursday evening.
The rush to register came less than a month after a U.S. bankruptcy court auctioned off the site Sex.com for $13 million. The property has changed hands several times since U.S. businessman Gary Kremen first registered it in 1994.
Web entrepreneurs hoping to repeat his success were out of luck, however. The Cyrillic equivalent — Секс.рф — has been up and running for months.
Moscow-based design studio Cetis, which owns the trademark for "sex" in Russian, registered the site shortly after it became available on Nov. 25, 2009, founder Yevgeny Yakushev said in e-mailed comments.
He said Секс.рф was the first site created specially for the Cyrillic domain. A closed version of the site was started May 25, when invitations were sent to 10,000 users. The site will open to the public later this month, he said.
"The project's main goal is to provide a wide audience with quality information about all forms of sexual education, family planning and raising children," he said.
"We've had some requests" about selling, Yakushev said. "We don't intend to sell the site or domain — we're looking to develop Секс.рф. But we're open to meeting potential investors who are interested in this social education project."

Cetis was founded in 1998 and was the first company to publicly call for the introduction of Cyrillic web address, he said. Now, the studio is helping design other Cyrillic sites that "meet the public's interests."
The Coordination Center — whose site was designed by Cetis — has created a list of words, including vulgarities, that cannot be used, Kolesnikov said.
"The stop list is for internal use, and no one is planning to publish it anywhere," Kolesnikov said Wednesday. "We made the list so that the first word registered after we started wouldn't be something like х-тра-ля-ля.рф," he added, using a euphuism for the male sex organ.
President Dmitry Medvedev, an avid Internet user, had lobbied global Internet oversight body ICAAN to introduce the Cyrillic names. In September 2008, he told an Internet conference that it would have "symbolic significance" for the Russian language.
The .ru domain has more than 3 million registered addresses, according to a running count on the center's web site.
But the launch of Cyrillic domains spurred fears that a new wave of cybersquatters would seek to cash in on established businesses' names.
In the country's first high-profile cybersquatting dispute, U.S. camera maker Eastman Kodak won the rights to Kodak.ru in 1999 after a costly two-year legal battle. The court awarded them 2,600 rubles, or about $100 at the time, in damages.
Earlier this year, the Russian edition of Forbes magazine won a similar case against a company that had registered Forbes.ru. The Moscow Arbitration Court awarded $300,000 in damages, the largest compensation payout ruling to date.
The magazine did not receive the money and eventually reached a settlement under which it was given the domain, Forbes.ru editor Grigory Punanov said Thursday.
"We registered the Cyrillic domain this time around, mostly as a defensive measure against squatters," Punanov said. "We're not expecting a lot of traffic from the Cyrillic address, but it cost next to nothing to register."
Only Russian citizens and businesses registered in the country were able to buy domains, Kolesnikov said Wednesday, according to comments posted on the center's web site. Registration will cost about the same as for .ru addresses — about 500 rubles to 600 rubles ($16 to $20).
The most popular letters in the addresses registered in the first hour were ы and я — Cyrillic characters with no equivalent in the Roman script, the center said on its web site.
Kolesnikov said the domains would allow Russian-speaking Internet users to feel at home on the web.
"The letter ё is what we were deprived of all these years using the English-language Internet," he said. The character, pronounced "yo," is often printed as a standard "e" in Cyrillic texts.
"Now we have it. All patriots should register their domain names with the letter ё," Kolesnikov said.

Russia seeks own internet

 

 

 

By Simon Aughton

Posted on 15 Nov 2010 at 02:16

The Russian government is seeking greater control over the Russian language part of the Internet, threatening to create a separate web that operates using Cyrillic rather than Latin, ascii characters.

It is attempting to persuade ICANN, the international body that oversees internet domain names, to grant it a Cyrillic .rf domain in addition to the ascii .ru.

This mirrors a system being tested in China, where Chinese characters are substituted for .com, .net and .cn.

This all seems pretty harmless and for Russian internet users with Cyrillic keyboards, positively beneficial. But experts are concerned that Russia could use control over the new domain to cut citizens off from the wider internet.

Without some kind of "bridge" to connect to the wider web that translates URLs and search queries between acsii and Cyrillic, Russians would be isolated.

Wolfgang Kleinwachter, special adviser to the chairman of the Internet Governance Forum, told The Guardian that the Russian government may implement a password system that provides access to international internet, giving it complete control over access, as well as a record of who is viewing what.

Security experts see the problem in reverse. If Russia closes its internet doors, it will make it easier for cyber criminals to hide in the Cyrillic web. And adding support for another set of characters will only increase confusion, increasing the potential for successful phishing attacks.

The Russian Institute for Public Networks (RIPN), which manages the .ru domain claims reports that a Cyrillic domain could be launched in 2008, regardless of ICANN approval, are false.

RIPN project manager Maria Mokina says that the organisation continues to work with ICANN's Internationalized Domain Names project.

"The tests being done are still going on at the IDN wiki website, nothing more," Mokina said. "No Russian Cyrillic domains are about to be launched."

Related domains

The traditional country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Russia, based on the ISO country codes, is ru. There is no direct mapping of subdomains between рф and ru, they are independent domains hosting potentially different resources. However, many resources may use URL redirection or DNS pointers to provide mapping between the name spaces. For example, the URLs http://президент.рф (prezident.rf) and http://kremlin.ru point to the identical resource, and http://яндекс.рф (Yandex) redirects to
http://www.yandex.ru

Early preparations

The preparation, development, and technical testing of the domain started in 2007 by registrar RU Center. The domain delegation process started in November 2009 as an application to ICANN under the new Fast Track IDN ccTLD process. The domain is expected to be launched in 2010. In preparation for a launch, RU Center opened a sunrise registration period for Russian trademark owners from 25 November 2009 to 25 March 2010. General public registrations are planned starting 20 April 2010 through June 2010 using a Dutch auction process, and at a fixed price beginning in July 2010.
In January 2010 ICANN announced that the domain was one of the first four new non-Latin ccTLDs to have passed the Fast Track String Evaluation within the domain application process.
In a press release in December 2007, Alexei Lesnikov of RU-Center suggested that an auction for domain names could be highly successful, as was the case with a similar domain name auction on the .su ccTLD.
With comparisons being made with an equivalent Chinese TLD of .中国, it is anticipated that take-up of a Russian Cyrillic TLD could outstrip demand for the Latin alphabet equivalent, .ru. The Russian government announced their official intentions to register .рф in letters to ICANN in June 2008.

First use
The top-level domain became operational on the Internet on May 13, 2010. The first two accessible sites were http://президент.рф (president) and http://правительство.рф (government).

Character set

рф (Russian: Российская Федерация) is transliterated as Rossiyskaya Federatsiya, the Russian Federation. The domain has an ascii representation of xn--p1ai derived as Punycode for use in the Domain Name System.
The domain is intended for Internet resources with names in the Russian language using the Cyrillic alphabet.
A principles in the approval process of ICANN Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) states that Greek and Cyrillic two-character top-level domains should not exclusively use characters that could be confused with Latin characters of identical or similar shapes — a problem that particularly limits Cyrillic choices. As such, GNSO sought to avoid the direct transcription of "ru" into Cyrillic, "ру", and common abbreviations for Russia (Russian: Россия), such as "ро", in order to avoid confusion with the Latin ccTLDs .py ( Paraguay ) and .po (currently unassigned). In English sources .рф can be romanized as .rf, but the latter is not a valid domain for Russia.

Cyrillic Domain

 рф

.РФ
Introduced	May 13, 2010
TLD type	Internationalized country code
Status	Active
Registry	Coordination Center for the Internet National Domain
Intended use	Entities connected with the Russian Federation
Actual use	Active / Limited registration
Registration restrictions	Intended for Cyrillic domain names only.
DNS name	xn--p1ai
Website	кц.рф

The domain name рф (romanized as rf^]) is the internationalized country code top-level domain in the Domain Name System of the Internet for the Russian Federation. In the Domain Name System it has the ASCII DNS name xn--p1ai. The domain accepts only Cyrillic subdomain applications, and is the first Cyrillic implementation of the Internationalizing Domain Names in Applications (IDNA) system. The domain became operational on May 13, 2010.