The Moscow Times reports that domain names in Russia ending in the Cyrillic IDN ccTLD, .рф may be available as soon as this week. Representatives from ICANN may officially assign .рф to Russia at the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) meeting in Moscow starting this thursday.
“We’re really expecting it within days. As soon as the domain [...]

We can finally start to register complete domain names in non-latin characters as representatives of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) approves the first three internationalised domain name (IDN) country-code top level domain (ccTLD) to be placed in the DNS root zone.
The three IDN ccTLDs are:

Egypt: مصر (Egypt)
Saudi Arabia: السعودية (AlSaudiah)
United Arab [...]

.KURD or .KUR is a decision a Kurdish company must decide on to use and represent over 35 million Kurdish people worldwide. A huge number of Kurdish people live in Iran and Iraq, while there are approximately 14 million Kurdish people in Turkey.
This initiative is being driven by Aras Noori, a German resident. Noori wrote [...]

ICANN revealed the proposed implementation plan for synchronized IDN ccTLDs on 22 March 2010.
Synchronized IDN ccTLDs are described by situations listed in the Fast Track Process by ICANN where:

IDN ccTLDs are requested in more than one official language or script in a country/territory,
the requests for corresponding multiple strings are considered equivalent and delegation would solve [...]

What is .MLS? MLS stands for multiple listing services, and supposedly 15 of the leading MLSs have got together to form the MLS Domains Association, a non-profit association made up of real estate multiple listing services. Its sole purpose of which is to obtain, manage, and promote the use of the .MLS top-level domain on [...]