Today an application has been submitted for the registration of top-level domain zones .MOSCOW and.MOSKVA. The application was submitted by the organization “Foundation for the Advancement of Technology and Infrastructure of the Internet”. Under the terms of ICANN, registration of these zones will cost the “Fund” 185 thousand US dollars. Apparently, there will be no obstacles for the registration of these domain zones, so that soon you can expect the appearance of .MOSCOW and.MOSCOW.
“Soon” does not mean a couple of days or weeks. According to the rules, immediately after the acceptance of the application, over the next two months, the opinions of private individuals and representatives of state bodies will be collected. After that, the official assessment of applications filed by ICANN specialists will begin. This process is slow and takes 5 months. If applications are approved, the process of delegating domain zones begins.
The likelihood that ICANN will begin delegating these zones by December 1 is quite high. And again, this process will take several more months. Interestingly, the application for registration of the domain zone is not served on one or two pages. The application for registration. MOSCOW and. MOSCOW takes up 250 pages for each of the zones. ')
The application signs in detail the plan for the development of new zones, shows the algorithm for registering domain names in these zones for state bodies. As usual, the priority registration will first be opened, and after that, anyone can register a domain in the new zone. True, first at a high price, and a little later at a normal price of 600 rubles per domain per year.