Joint Webinar of TMCH and FAITID on .MOSCOW and .МОСКВА

On June 19, Foundation for Assistance for Internet Technologies and Infrastructure Development and ICANN's Trademark Clearinghouse had a joint webinar.

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).

FAITIDrepresentative 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/