As mentioned below, ICANN is currently in the process of approving IDN ccTLD requests and recently announced that four internationalized domain names had been approved: Egypt, the Russian Federation, United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia. The languages associated with the first four IDN ccTLDs to be approved include Arabic and Russian in Arabic and Cyrillic scripts, representing another step closer for IDN ccTLDs.
From the perspective of trademark owners, important considerations include: Do the referenced nations represent significant geographic areas in which the company does business or a natural area of business expansion? Has the brand owner registered and/or used a translation or transliteration of the trademark in either of these scripts?
It was also recently announced that the registry behind the application for the Russian Federation, incorporating the Cyrillic script, intends to begin operation in March of this year.
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