domain names in Cyrillic

[John Dunn]

This prediction may be well founded.  At any rate there seem to be technical problems, not to mentions doubts as to whether the exercise serves any useful purpose:

http://hitech.newsru.com/article/13May2010/rfowndomain

It is my impression that sub-domains are used rather less widely in Russia than in some other countries.  As the proud possessor of an e-mail address with no fewer than five levels, I can see the attraction of keeping entities to a minimum.

John Dunn.


-----Original Message-----
From: Psy Ling <psyling at YMAIL.COM>
To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 06:04:04 -0700
Subject: [SEELANGS] domain names in Cyrillic

now you can type address in Cyrillic.
http://www.mk.ru/politics/article/2010/05/13/487454-politicheskiy-domen.html
президент.рф will become http://xn--d1abbgf6aiiy.xn--p1ai/
and I wonder why they did not use /gov or /прав = правительство as sub-domain. My prediction is that there will be some mess.
V.B.





John Dunn
Honorary Research Fellow, SMLC (Slavonic Studies)
University of Glasgow, Scotland

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