Signboard of Ru.Center domain registration center, Moscow. The first domain with Cyrillic letters in its name will be probably registered in Russia by late 2008.
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Domain ‘ðô’ to Emerge in Russia’s Internet Next Year
The first domain with Cyrillic letters in its name will be probably registered in Russia by late 2008, said Andrei Romanov, head of the ‘ru’ domain coordination center.
“Registration of upper-level domains in the national languages will be probably launched by the next year-end. Russia’s Internet-community may get the ‘ðô’ domain,” Romanov announced during the Monday news conference held in RIA Novosti office.
Romanov said that creation of the upper-level domains is one of the most urgent issues in the world and it will be tackled in the near term. But introducing a national-language domain calls for meeting three conditions.
“The registry that works with a new domain is the same as the registry of the domain that exists in the given territory; the community agrees that the domain has been provided for this territory; and the ministry or department that controls issues of information and communication technologies in the territory also supports allocation of this domain,” Romanov specified.
To avoid confusion between the domain names in Roman and Cyrillic letters, Romanov went on, it is necessary to use a certain unique symbol in domain’s full name. The ‘ðô’ domain will become exactly this unique symbol, the official concluded.
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