Domain Market 2010: The Cyrillic Domain .РФ
One of the major events of 2010 was the start of registrations in the Cyrillic domain zone .РФ. This process was accompanied by disputes, investigations, and accusations. We offer a brief overview of the events surrounding the Cyrillic domain .РФ.
Since the beginning of the year, domains have been available for registration in the Cyrillic domain .РФ, but only for a limited number of users. Initially, registered trademark holders were able to register names there, but later,registration for all legal entities, as well as for online publications. Even thenThe Coordination Center for the National Internet Domain has introduced restrictions due to a large number of abuses..
July 15 on the RuNetThe third stage of website registration in the .РФ zone has begun., when the right to register was granted to media outlets and non-profit organizations.
The final stage of priority registration began on July 26, 2020, andFree registration started on November 11.
On the eve of the start of preliminary registration of domain names in the .РФ zonea list of so-called stop words was compiled, for which domain name registration is prohibited. The list of stop words was compiled by the Coordination Center for the National Internet Domain. It includes approximately 4,000 obscene expressions. The list's creators emphasize that it was based on the Dictionary of Russian Obscene Language.
Despite the rather skeptical assessments of many analysts regarding the prospects of Cyrillic domains, free registration in the .РФ domain zone has already begun in the first hoursshowed genuine interest in them from registrants. For the first 6 hoursMore than 200,000 domains were registered, and later the Russian domain zone.РФ entered the top twenty largest Russian domain zones in just the first day since the start of free registration.And within a week the number of domain names here exceeded half a million.
During the free registration in .РФ someRegistrars registered domains in their own names to later put them up for auctionThese actions of companiestriggered an investigation by the Federal
