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Largest Russian Search Engine Yandex Preparing To Launch .Yandex

July 15, 2014 by Michael Berkens

According to a press release out today Russia’s largest search engine,  Yandex (NASDAQ: YNDX) announced it will be launching its new Brand gTLD .Yandex shortly on a closed basis except for trademark holders.

“The ICANN has really approved the creation of a .Yandex domain zone, we are preparing to launch it. We are not ready to mention the exact date of the zone’s launch for the users,” the spokesperson said.

“We do not plan to open a paid registry in the .yandex,” the spokesperson said, adding that all current information will be represented in the zone: “our search engines, our services and information on the Yandex company.”

The first technical domains nic.yandex and whois.yandex may be launched in two weeks.

During priority registration any company whose trademarks are included in the ICANN’s special depository register will be able to purchase the domain in the new zone at a fixed price.

Yandex has about 60% of the Russian Search Engine Market.

It will be interesting to see how the company uses the .Yandex new gTLD

Filed Under: New gTLD's, Publicly Traded Domain Co

About Michael Berkens

Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.

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