Russian Cyrillic ccTLD Launched

May 15, 2010 by Michele Neylon

Russian Internet Governance Forum

Originally uploaded by veni markovski

Russia has become the first country to launch a Cyrillic ccTLD.

.рф (rf for Russian Federation in Cyrillic)

ICANN CEO, Rod Beckstrom, did the honours during the Russian internet forum this week

About Michele Neylon

Michele is founder and managing director of Irish domain registrar and hosting company Blacknight. Michele has been deeply involved in domain and internet policy discussions for more than a decade.
He also co-hosts the Technology.ie podcast.