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Russia Weighs Going Cyrillic For DNS

Posted by kdawson on from the ru-serious dept.

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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  1. ASCII PROUD WORLD ROUND by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You read that right.

  2. Re:Great!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Slashdot is lame like U**x in 1980 and ate the characters you typed. Actually one of big advantages of Microsoft was internalization. I could use national characters without any problem in 1994 on NT. Good luck with Linux or most of Unices then.

  3. More control? Doesn't seem like the Russian M.O. by damburger · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    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.

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    If we can put a man on the moon, why can't we shoot people for Apollo-related non-sequiturs?