I can't for the heck of me think why Russia would want to go to all
that trouble and then stick to ".ru" in Cyrillic, when "Russia" in
Russian is Rossiya (<span lang="ru">Росси́я) - and ".po"
is not taken, nor is ".pc" so Paraguay need not fear a war over ".py".
And if it about asserting cyrillicness, then, there is nothing more
patently Cyrillic than "</span><span lang="ru">я</span><span lang="ru">". So, new ccTLD, ".p</span><span lang="ru">я"<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<br>
Rui<br>
</span><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 04/01/2008, <b class="gmail_sendername">David Goldstein</b> <<a href="mailto:goldstein_david@yahoo.com.au">goldstein_david@yahoo.com.au</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi all,<br><br>For
those who haven't seen the report, The Guardian reported in the last
couple of days of Russia's desire "for greater control over the
Russian-language part of the net - and its<br>aim seems to be to create a web that operates in Cyrillic, completely<br>independent from the wider web." See:<br><br>Kremlin eyes internet control ...<br>The
growing cold war with Russia has a new front besides oil fields and
undersea territorial claims: the internet. Russia's government is
pushing for greater control over the Russian-language part of the net -
and its aim seems to be to create a web that operates in Cyrillic,
completely independent from the wider web.<br><br>The problem for
Russia is that its top-level domain - with the ASCII suffix .ru -
translates into Cyrillic as .py, the domain name of Paraguay. That
could pose security problems for Russian users. Kim Davies, who
controls the domain names at the international domain naming agency
Icann told the Guardian: "Russia has a second top level domain name of
.ru in Ascii code, but is pushing for .rf in Cyrillic."<br><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jan/03/internet.censorship">http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jan/03/internet.censorship</a><br><br>
Of
course, those who check out my website will have already seen the link
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