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Explorer
28th October 2006, 03:10 PM
Coming in January to the registrar near you, if you haven't heard it already.

They are talking about a sunrise period, of course. Would be interesting to watch the progress as well as the prices on the secondary market.


http://www.utro.ru/news/2006/10/25/595564.shtml

seamo
28th October 2006, 03:32 PM
Any idea on pricing yet Explorer?

thefabfive
28th October 2006, 03:34 PM
This IDN thing must be catching on.

Sunrise means nothing left for your average Joe.

Explorer
28th October 2006, 03:36 PM
Any idea on pricing yet Explorer?

Not sure the pricing is set yet, but I feel it shouldn't be different from ascii.ru names, which is around $20.

This IDN thing must be catching on.

Sunrise means nothing left for your average Joe.

Very true.

seamo
28th October 2006, 03:40 PM
Sunrise means nothing left for your average Joe.
Hmm...maybe.

I still reckon there would be a lot of nice IDN's available that will be snapped up by some of the players here.

Particularly after having the luxury of owning them in .com's & .net's for a while and getting a good idea of their traffic potential...

yanni
28th October 2006, 04:41 PM
OK, here we go again...

I have some cheap Russian.coms for sale :)

Rubber Duck
28th October 2006, 05:07 PM
This IDN thing must be catching on.

Sunrise means nothing left for your average Joe.

It not only means they are catching on, it means there will be big publicity! It will mean that many Russian Organisations will also be under nationalist pressure to switch their content to IDN.

I would build up your hopes of getting anything very interesting, unless perhaps you own the equivalent ASCII which may or may not give you some edge.

tee1
28th October 2006, 06:25 PM
This should produce quite a bit of publicity for IDNs:) , as well as some entertaining reading, stories about who has rights to секс.ru ect. wasn't sex trademarked 180 times or so for the .eu sunrise?

Is this the first sunrise period for IDNs? I was under the impression that most were first come first serve.

tee1



Coming in January to the registrar near you, if you haven't heard it already.

They are talking about a sunrise period, of course. Would be interesting to watch the progress as well as the prices on the secondary market.


http://www.utro.ru/news/2006/10/25/595564.shtml

Rubber Duck
28th October 2006, 06:39 PM
This should produce quite a bit of publicity for IDNs:) , as well as some entertaining reading, stories about who has rights to секс.ru ect. wasn't sex trademarked 180 times or so for the .eu sunrise?

Is this the first sunrise period for IDNs? I was under the impression that most were first come first serve.

tee1

If they are being Sunrised then a certainly level of interest must be anticipated!

Explorer
28th October 2006, 09:53 PM
If they are being Sunrised then a certainly level of interest must be anticipated!

The level of interest should jump through the roof once they wake up next week and realize they could type in native characters.

My bet is 99% of top keywords will be gone in the first few seconds, just like with .eu.

Olney
28th October 2006, 10:22 PM
I could have sworn that someone wrote IDN.ru would never happen?

Explorer
28th October 2006, 10:44 PM
I could have sworn that someone wrote IDN.ru would never happen?

Hmmm...maybe you mean idn.ру, which is Russian for "RU". That indeed shouldn't happen because it looks exactly like .py, which belongs to Paraguay.

bwhhisc
28th October 2006, 11:05 PM
Explorer, can you see what the news is on this subject (if they know about it) at dommenforum.

Explorer
28th October 2006, 11:48 PM
Explorer, can you see what the news is on this subject (if they know about it) at dommenforum.

Not a huge discussion, but mostly positive, actually. Some are a bit skeptical since it's still idn.ascii and users will still have to switch keyboards.

Rubber Duck
28th October 2006, 11:55 PM
Not a huge discussion, but mostly positive, actually. Some are a bit skeptical since it's still idn.ascii and users will still have to switch keyboards.

Are you trying to tell me that most of them don't already have bi-lingual keyboards? This toggling nonsense is complete bollucks. The presumption is that if you are Russian surfing the internet in the Russian language that you will commence in cyrillic and end in cyrillic. You have to toggle to Latin to put the domain part of a URL into the address bar, but much of the rest of it could be cyrillic anyway including subdomains. All that IDN.ASCII means is that you don't toggle out of cyrillic as early as you would with ASCII.ASCII.

If those Genii at Dommenforum actually attack the problem from two separate keyboards, then frankly are their opinions worth sampling?

555
29th October 2006, 12:12 AM
Are you trying to tell me that most of them don't already have bi-lingual keyboards? This toggling nonsense is complete bollucks. The presumption is that if you are Russian surfing the internet in the Russian language that you will commence in cyrillic and end in cyrillic. You have to toggle to Latin to put the domain part of a URL into the address bar, but much of the rest of it could be cyrillic anyway including subdomains. All that IDN.ASCII means is that you don't toggle out of cyrillic as early as you would with ASCII.ASCII.

If those Genii at Dommenforum actually attack the problem from two separate keyboards, then frankly are their opinions worth sampling?

I never got to hear any real explanation from any of the Russians that "decided" idn's are no good up to date...
And with all respects to they're based on nothing opinion...looking at they're ascii domains...i wont worry too much...just reflects alot of they're domain market knowledge in general

Do you see idn.ru having more positive or negative consequences on Russian idn.com/net?

Explorer
29th October 2006, 12:15 AM
Are you trying to tell me that most of them don't already have bi-lingual keyboards? This toggling nonsense is complete bollucks. The presumption is that if you are Russian surfing the internet in the Russian language that you will commence in cyrillic and end in cyrillic. You have to toggle to Latin to put the domain part of a URL into the address bar, but much of the rest of it could be cyrillic anyway including subdomains. All that IDN.ASCII means is that you don't toggle out of cyrillic as early as you would with ASCII.ASCII.

If those Genii at Dommenforum actually attack the problem from two separate keyboards, then frankly are their opinions worth sampling?

Of course, the majority of them have bi-lingual keyboards. Otherwise, how would they write emails to each other? The keyboard switching has been going on since computers were invented. What they probably mean is idn.ascii solution is not perfect, since it's not convinient to switch keyboards. Makes sense. It's not perfect.

As far as their opinions, I think they have to be different from ours by definition. If they weren’t, there is no way we could have registered what we had registered.

Rubber Duck
29th October 2006, 12:19 AM
I never got to hear any real explanation from any of the Russians that "decided" idn's are no good up to date...
And with all respects to they're based on nothing opinion...looking at they're ascii domains...i wont worry too much...just reflects alot of they're domain market knowledge in general

Do you see idn.ru having more positive or negative consequences on Russian idn.com/net?

I think earlier release of IDN.RU will mean faster adoption of IDN.com but a greater liklihood that the .RU will manage to maintain much of it market share. There will be huge damage done to its market share between release of IE7 and the end of the dot RU sunrise, as awareness will be hightened but only dot coms will be available. Some damage is inevitable as dot RU needed to be made available before IE7 release, but the smaller the delay the more will be salvaged. I am relaxed either way.

Of course, the majority of them have bi-lingual keyboards. Otherwise, how would they write emails to each other? The keyboard switching has been going on since computers were invented. What they probably mean is idn.ascii solution is not perfect, since it's not convinient to switch keyboards. Makes sense. It's not perfect.

As far as their opinions, I think they have to be different from ours by definition. If they weren’t, there is no way we could have registered what we had registered.

So no milk is better than half a glass to these Gurus of the East then. We all know that not have to switch at all is preferable, and that IDN.ASCII is a temporary solution. It is, however, a bit like saying, if I cannot have IE8 now, then I prefer to stay with IE6. We have witnessed these guys in action on this forum. Say no more!

khurtsiya
3rd January 2007, 08:11 PM
What do You say about THIS (http://www.idnforums.com/forums/8354-ayguo-ru-%3D-аудио-ru.html)?

Explorer
3rd January 2007, 09:08 PM
What do You say about THIS (http://www.idnforums.com/forums/8354-ayguo-ru-%3D-аудио-ru.html)?

caveat emptor

khurtsiya
4th January 2007, 08:23 AM
I badly know English...
Not talling about Latina...
Can You translate this?
caveat emptor

Explorer
4th January 2007, 12:21 PM
I badly know English...
Not talling about Latina...
Can You translate this?


...let the buyer beware...

khurtsiya
4th January 2007, 12:24 PM
Ok. Then WHY?

Rubber Duck
4th January 2007, 12:30 PM
Ok. Then WHY?

He is obviously expressing the opinion that there is a significant risk of you spending a lot of money on something that has no value. How much more explicit does he need to be?

555
4th January 2007, 12:37 PM
Ok. Then WHY?

Ok. Then WHY you don't reply to that post? Thanks!

http://www.idnforums.com/forums/8354-ayguo-ru-%3D-%D0%B0%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%BE-ru.html

Explorer
4th January 2007, 02:18 PM
He is obviously expressing the opinion that there is a significant risk of you spending a lot of money on something that has no value. How much more explicit does he need to be?

I think you nailed it :-)

idn
11th February 2007, 10:49 AM
Any update on the .ru ? Registrations started?

burnsinternet
11th February 2007, 11:11 AM
I was just reading about that. Not finished yet, but here are some links:

Расширение алфавита

http://info.nic.ru/st/10/out_1338.shtml (http://info.nic.ru/st/10/out_1338.shtml)

Координационный центр домена RU дал зеленый свет русскоязычным доменам

http://info.nic.ru/st/42/out_1370.shtml (http://info.nic.ru/st/10/out_1338.shtml)

[18.01.2007] Более половины графически похожих доменов уже зарегистрировано (http://info.nic.ru/st/42/out_1410.shtml)

http://info.nic.ru/st/42/out_1410.shtml

[09.02.2007] Регистрация русскоязычных доменов еще не началась, но уже идет (http://info.nic.ru/st/42/out_1429.shtml)

http://info.nic.ru/st/42/out_1429.shtml

Trademarks: http://www.internet-law.ru/business/rus-domain.htm

burnsinternet
6th November 2007, 05:05 AM
Any new news on idn.рф (idn.idn for Russia)? I cannot find anything that is very recent.

Rubber Duck
6th November 2007, 08:48 AM
Any new news on idn.рф (idn.idn for Russia)? I cannot find anything that is very recent.

Maybe not but it will come out soon.

They might even sell them before they are allocated. It is not that unusual to sell names before they resolve. Both Verisign and the Chinese have. The Russians know they will get some kind of IDN or another, they could sell them as .рф or in small print whatever ICANN lets us have!