Q: Is it correct that you recently bought РФ.com (“RF” or “Russian Federation” in Russian) for $60,000? A: Yes Q: How do you value this name? Is the forthcoming launch of the .РФ ccTLD a main reason for your purchase? A: Absolutely, the launch of .РФ is mostly the reason for the purchase. I think [...]

секс.рф (Sex).рф and банк.рф (Bank).рф headlined a group of premium domain names that were awarded to a single Russian company. The release of the .рф (.rf) ccTLD should have merely been a time for celebration, but the event was marred by claims that cronyism turned the sunrise period for .рф into an uneven playing field. [...]

A number of press releases and registrar statements over the past week touted the ability to preregister Russia’s “forthcoming” .РФ IDN ccTLD extension. The problem is that Russia hasn’t received ICANN approval to release the .РФ extension. Only recently has .РФ jumped the String Evaluation hurdle (link) but it has not passed the String Delegation [...]

Today, Russian Internet Week opened in the Exhibition Center of Moscow. Starring is the first Cyrillic extension .РФ, which stands for .RF or Russian Federation. Russia is a country of intense nationalism, where .ru is the current TLD leader in domain registrations rather than .com.  Russian language nationalism is so rampant that in August 2008, [...]

Copernicus believed the opposite of the masses.  When it was supposedly common knowledge that the Earth was the center of the universe, Copernicus had the guts to say that it was the Sun, and he had the research to back it. If you missed out on the domain gold rush of the 1990s, don’t resign [...]