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Cyrillic "zone of the Russian Federation" at a crossroads

Plans for the transition of each country to the use of national alphabets on the web have been hatched by the world community for a long time. However, the international organization ICNN, which distributes domains and actually builds the Internet, reluctantly supported this initiative. After all, no one could predict how the nationalization of the Network will affect its development. There were concerns that the allocation of separate zones for each country would affect the single space and divide the Internet. But after several years of negotiations, ICNN gave its permission to use national alphabets on the World Wide Web.

As you know, the launch of the domain zone. RF is expected in 2008. The cost of the name in the zone. RF is still unknown, but many experts doubt that it will seriously exceed the price for registration in .ru.

“The emergence of new domains is simply pumping out money. There is no practical sense in this, as already existing players will be registered there, ”said one of the cybersquatters. “New users will not attract new users,” agrees another cybersquatter.
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Runet users are already so accustomed to the Latin alphabet, that the transition to the Russian language simply lost its relevance. In addition, the introduction of a domain zone. RF will create confusion between some addresses. In addition, phishers can take advantage of this situation - they will increase the number of their attacks.

It is interesting to find out, after all, what the emergence of a new domain zone will turn into and what will be taken into account by domains in the .ru, .com and .net zones. What will the business and ordinary users of the Internet gain or lose from this? What is your opinion?

Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/19018/


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