MOSCOW, July 26 (Itar-Tass) -- The registration of websites of mass media and non-commercial organisations in the Cyrillic “.rf” domain zone resumed on Monday, July 26, after a ten-day pause.

The reception of applications for registration in the rf zone was suspended on July 15 following the introduction of tighter rules for mass media.

“During the first 20 minutes, more than a thousand domain names were registered, including about 300 for mass media,” Andrei Vorobyov, public relations director of RU-Centre, Russia’s biggest registrar of domain names, said.

Until now only government agencies and the owners of trademarks with logos both in Cyrillic and Latin could register their websites in Russian.