Russia to Create Internet Addresses in Cyrillic
Many Russians are unable to surf the Web using Latin alphabets; the ability to surf the Web entirely in Russian would mean a jump in number of Internet users.
Following ICANN's (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) announcement of a radical shake-up of the Internet last week, Russia will create its first Internet addresses using the Cyrillic alphabet next year, Communications Ministry Official Vladimir Vassiliev said.
At present, Russia uses only two top-level domain names; .ru and .su. The country will be able to create a third one in Cyrillic by the second quarter of next year, as per Vassiliev.
Many Russians are unable to surf the Web using Latin alphabets; the ability to surf the Web entirely in Russian would mean a jump in number of Internet users; in Vassiliev's opinion. The ministry wants to see the number of Internet users climb from 35 million at the end of last year to nearly 46 million by the end of this year.
Besides, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev had, at the beginning of this month, stressed on the importance of Russia having domain names in Cyrillic, mainly to reinforce the role of the Russian language in the world.
Meanwhile, ICANN, at the top-level meeting held in Paris last week, unanimously voted in favor of relaxing the strict rules around the so-called top-level domain names. The Internet regulator also approved a second proposal towards introducing domain names written in scripts in Asian and Arabic languages.
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