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Kiev.com To Be Sold At DomainFest 2009

January 24th, 2009 · No Comments

We don’t often highlight domain sales on here, but this is an exceptional offer for anyone interested in the Ukrainian market. Kiev.com, will go on sale at the Domainfest Global 2009 to be held at the Renaissance Hotel, Hollywood, LA, January 28-30th.
Kiev is the capital capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the [...]

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Russian AntiMonopoly Service Blocks Google Deal

October 23rd, 2008 · 2 Comments

According to Interfax, Googles proposed deal to puchase the contexual ad provider, Begun.ru, for $140m was shot down by the Russian Anti-Monopoly Service (FAS) on Thursday.
The reason cited has been a lack of clear information on the “individuals who can exert influence on the activity of the Google group, as well as a list of [...]

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Tags: Begun · Conferences · Domains · Google · Rambler · Reports · Russia · Social Media · Yandex

Bulgaria Applies For IDN Domain Extension

June 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

Bulgaria has entered an official application today to ICANN for the IDN extension .бг (.bg).
ICANN had raised the issue of IDN extensions at their recent Paris Conference, with a view to introducing a “limited number of non-contentious IDN ccTLDs, while an overall long-term IDN ccTLD policy is being developed” (DomainNews).
A representative of Bulgaria’s Governmental [...]

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Presidential Support for New Russian IDN

June 16th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Dmitry Medvedev, President of the Russian Federation has thrown his weight behind the campaign for a new Cyrillic IDN for the country. The Moscow Times reports that this is part of a new drive to promote Russian as a global language.
He said 300 million people worldwide used Russian media and that a Cyrillic domain name [...]

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Russian Registry Seeks Support For IDN .RF Domain

May 28th, 2008 · 1 Comment

The Russian Registry is today asking it’s customer base to vote on the possibility of a new .РФ (.RF) IDN domain name. As they write, ICANN is looking at the possibility of establishing top-level domains using international characters. The final decision on this matter will be taken at the 32nd International Public ICANN Meeting held [...]

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Russian SU Domain Registry Snubs ICANN

April 14th, 2008 · 7 Comments

ICANN is still attempting to delete the obsolete SU (Soviet Union) extension but having little success. While they have managed to decommission the .YU (Yogoslavia) extension successfully last year, they are finding rebellion among Russian webmasters, ISPs and the Registry itself.
To summerise the dispute so far, September saw ICANN release a statement urging “the current [...]

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