2008
Combination of Cyrillic symbols “РФ” was officially approved as a designation of Russian IDN TLD. A prior application on delegation of .РФ was filed to ICANN.
2009
Concept of domain names registration in Cyrillic TLD .РФ was approved.
2009
Rules in .РФ were officially approved.
2009
Fast Track was approved by ICANN.
2009
Examination of Russian application on .РФ started in ICANN.
16 September 2010
Sunrise 1 in .РФ: registrations became available to Russian trademark owners.
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Sunrise 2 in .РФ: registrations became available to any trademark owners.
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Sunrise 3 in .РФ: registrations becаme available to Russian mass-media, owners of companies’ names that are not registered as trademarks, Russian non-commercial organisations; owners of names of goods’ and services’ origin.
2010
.РФ is officially delegated to Russian Federation. First websites with Cyrillic addresses (Президент.рф, Правительство.рф) became available.
2010
Start of general availability in .РФ.