Since November 16, the Domain Names Regulation Commission (ICANN) has allowed the use of other alphabets in the address lines of the Internet.
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States will be able to apply for registration of the top-level domain zone in the national language on November 16. New rules will allow 100 thousand new characters to be used in domain names. In ICANN, the new domain naming rules have already been dubbed the biggest change in the functioning of the Internet in recent years.
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“This is a small step for us, but a huge leap for half of all Internet users in the world. This decision will help us achieve our goal of making the network accessible to everyone, ”said ICANN President Rod Beckstrom, paraphrasing cosmonaut Neil Armstrong, who first stepped onto the surface of the moon.
For Russia, ICANN's decision means the ability to create a domain zone. RF and start registering domains in it. Accreditation of registrars for the zone. RF will begin on 4 November. It is expected that from November 25, 2009 to March 25, 2010, priority registration of domains will be introduced for government agencies and trademark owners.
According to the head of the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media, Igor Schegolev, Russia will become the first country to use the first-level domain in the national language. It is expected that the open registration of names in the domain. The Russian Federation will begin in July 2010, and in total in the next year several hundred thousand Cyrillic domain names will be registered in it. It is worth noting that many IT specialists expect a surge in cybersquatting activity after the launch of a new zone.
Today, 1.5 billion people in the world use the Internet, half of whom do not use the Latin alphabet.
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