Dear Colleague,

Re: Registration of domains in the zone .РФ [Cyrillic]

Since 25th of November, 2009 the acceptance of applications on priority registration of domain names in the zone .РФ [Cyrillic] for owners of the trademarks in Cyrillic has began. The acceptance of applications on priority registration will last to March 25, 2010.
Within this time frame of priority registrations, applications for the receipt of .RF domain-names ownership can be submitted for valid trademarks in Cyrillic, officially recorded on the territory of the Russian Federation.
Trademark owners have the right to apply for the domains completely reproducing a verbal designation of their trademark or coinciding with its verbal designation after removal from it backspace and replacement of backspace by the sign «-» ("hyphen"). Thus the verbal designation of a trademark should include not less than one protected element.

Only the owner of exclusive rights for a trademark can act as an administrator of the domain to record. Priority registration of domains in zone .RF for legal owners of trademarks protected them in various classes of goods and services, is made on the principle of the “first filed”.

A domain-name is your individual and unique address in the Internet network. By means of such address any Internet user can find the information about your company. Domains .RU; .SU; .COM; .NET; .ORG; .BIZ; .INFO etc. belong to top level domains. For example, domain .RU shows that the resource is in Russia; .COM says that the resource concerns some commercial activity; .INFO — an informative resource. In the near future registration of domain names will be in zone of the Russian Federation.
A domain-name in Russia has gradually become a high-grade means of individualization. Protection of legal owners interests on the Internet – important direction in work of patent attorneys.
We are the official partner of JSC "Regional Network Information centre" (RU-CENTER), a leading registrar of domain-names. Owing the partnership with the largest Registrar of domains, we can offer you registration of domains in all largest zones.
Domain registration is made directly to the customer. All rights to the domain are delegated to the consumer.
Should you have any questions onregistration of domains , please do not hesitate to contact us.

Sincerely yours,
Alexander Leonov, Director General
Russian Patent and Trademark Attorney, Eurasian Patent Attorney