On June 19, representatives of the Foundation for Assistance for Internet Technologies and Infrastructure Development (http://en.faitid.org/) and ICANN's Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH) (http://trademark-clearinghouse.com/) had a joint webinar on the new top-level domains for the Russian capital: .MOSCOW and .МОСКВА. They discussed the launch plan and growth strategy of these TLDs. The TMCH representative was talking about what is Clearinghouse, how to submit a trademark to it and register a domain name in the new gTLDs during the Sunrise period, and also gave some statistics on TMCH registrations (http://trademark-clearinghouse.com/content/tmch-stats).

FAITID representative was talking about advantages and marketing strategy of .MOSCOW and .МОСКВА, and also presented their launch plan:

• 1st REGISTRATION PERIOD
  • June 10, 2014 - July 10, 2014
    • For owners of trademarks included in the Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH)
• 2nd REGISTRATION PERIOD
  • July 15, 2014 - August 13, 2014
    • For owners of trademarks and service marks protected in Russia
• 3rd REGISTRATION PERIOD
  • August 19, 2014 - August 25, 2014
    • For Moscow's company names 
    • For Moscow's media outlets
    • For Moscow's non-profit organizations
    • For appellations of origin from Moscow and Moscow Region
• LANDRUSH REGISTRATION
  • September 24, 2014 - November 18, 2014
• GENERAL AVAILABILITY
  • From December 1, 2014

Additional information on the new domains and the webinar is available at:

http://domainmoscow.org/

http://en.faitid.org/

http://trademark-clearinghouse.com/