Cyrillic domains: wait, all will be

International Internet Organization ICANN has officially approved the creation of a Cyrillic domain name. RF. Starting a new domain zone is scheduled for mid next year. Administrator. Russia will Coordination Center for TLD RU. The process of registering domain names in zone. Russia will be divided into several stages: priority registration period, the collection of preliminary bids from all comers, and auctions for those domains, which received two or more applications. It may be the priority registration period for state agencies, according to RB. Specific rules for registration will be available by summer 2009. Domain Name Registrars predict significant interest to Russian-language domains in the zone. RF. Thus, experts RU-CENTER expect to Cyrillic domain have 20-25% of registrations in the zone. RU. "According to optimistic forecasts for the first year is expected to 1 million registrations," - said Andrey Vorobyev, director of the Department Director of Public Relations RU-CENTER. Most likely, the cost of registration. Russia will be similar to rates in. RU. The possible appearance of Cyrillic zone. RF regional representative ICANN Veni Markovski said more than a year ago, this year in the new domain forward to the first registration. President Dmitry Medvedev expressed his support. Russia in June 2008. After launching a new domain in RuNet will have three "own" zone: The most "development". RU (a 1.75 million registered domains), the oldest, "Soviet", not so long ago, open again. SU (over 80 thousand domains ) and "local", the Cyrillic. Russia which is expected from 350 thousand to 1 million registrations in the first year. It is worth noting that the opportunity to register Cyrillic domains and provides a zone. SU, but here the activity of users remains low. Many companies already have their own websites, do not approve of the activity of ICANN in creating new domain zones - the cost of protecting brands and domain names from cybersquatters and online fraud are sufficiently large, and the "stolen" domain reduces the level of user confidence. Among the protesters - such well-known organizations such as Verizon Communications, Marriott International and New York Life Insurance.