Dmitriy Medvedev (russian president) is FOR .рф!

[michael]

Here is the link http://info.nic.ru/st/1/out_2050.shtml

And Google Translation

In Moscow, opened 10 - th World Congress of Russian press. The participants of the event will discuss problems of development of Russian-speaking global information space and protecting the Russian language. This time Congress will bring together representatives from 65 countries. All over the world to speak Russian more than three hundred million people. According to the spread of Russian language is the fourth largest in the world.

Congress opened Dmitry Medvedev, the president of Russia. In opening remarks, RIA-Novosti, and he raised the topic of a possible delegation of our country Cyrillic domain. RF. "We must do our utmost to achieve the assignment of domain names in Cyrillic. This is the symbolic significance of Russian language, and we have good chances to make an appropriate decision" - said Medvedev, responding to questions from the participants of World Congress of Russian press.

If a corporation ICANN approve the introduction of IDN upper levels, then Russia could become one of the first countries which will be delegated Cyrillic own national domain. However, Russian blast zone quickly appear only in the event that its creation would support the idea of the Russian Internet community.

Thus, the opinions of Internet users is designed to learn the company's shares RU-CENTER "Support Russia, will vote in favour. RF." June 3, ended a custom stage a vote. To the question "Would you like to, that Russia was delegated Cyrillic top-level domain. RF?" 70, 4% of users answered "yes", and only 29.6 - "no".

On Monday launched the second phase of the action. The site www.za-RF.ru absolutely all Internet users the opportunity to speak in support or oppose the Cyrillic top-level domain, intended for our country.

[sbe18]

I only have a few Russian IDN dot com's.

I would like to boost my Russian holdings....
Is there information anywhere on timing, cost, and registrars for russian idn.idn's ?

thanks.

Steve

[yanni]

Until ICANN approves this, there's no info.
Supposedly they would indroduce the fast track idn cctlds by the end of this year...