Russia Weighs Going Cyrillic For DNS

An anonymous reader writes "The Guardian reports that the Kremlin may start an alternate top-level domain, .rf. According to the story, .ru in Cyrillic translates to .py, the top-level domain for Paraguay, which the Russian government claims leads to confusion. This is similar to a move by China, which has their own .net and .com top-level domains in their native character set along with .cn, .com, and .net in ASCII." Hindering Paraguayan hackers may matter less to the Russian government than establishing greater control over a walled-off Internet.

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More control? Doesn't seem like the Russian M.O.

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The Russian government is quite openly murdering critics of the government, both at home and in foreign countries. Sneakily playing with TLDs to censor the internet doesn't seem like their style. If they want to clamp down on the internet, there won't be much doubt what they are doing. The fucking psychos will probably just bomb uncooperative ISPs or something.