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Sunrise Period for .РФ Domain Name Reservation Extended, Eligibility to Expand

Trademark owners now have until April 23, 2010 to submit priority applications for .РФ domain names.

Proof of Identity Now Required For .RU Domain Registrations the Rule

By April 1, 2010, registrants of domain names ending in .RU must file proof of their identities with their registrars in order to maintain their existing domain names, and obtain new ones. The change comes as a result of the new Terms and Conditions of Domain Names Registration Under Domain .RU, which came into effect on October 1, 2009 and apply to both individual and corporate registrants.

ICANN Announces Approval of Internationalized Country Code Top Level Domains

On October 30, 2009 ICANN, the organization responsible for regulating internet domain names, announced its approval of internationalised country-code top-level domain names (IDN ccTLDs). Beginning November 16, 2009, ICANN will accept applications for ccTLDs in non-Latin characters such as Chinese, Cyrillic, Japanese, Korean and Arabic.

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