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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. In Soviet Russia ... by trolltalk.com · · Score: 5, Funny

    In Soviet Russia, DNS blocks YOU.

    ... which is the whole point of "greater control".

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  2. Just to spike the ball..... by edwardpickman · · Score: 5, Funny

    and prevent foreign outsourcing of Russian web site construction they plan to launch a version of HTML in Cyrillic. Soon to be followed by C++ in Cyrillic. Microsoft decided it was a niffty idea so they plan to start a Pig Latin based coding language called "Squeal Like".

  3. How long? by A+beautiful+mind · · Score: 5, Funny

    How long until someon registers rm.rf ?

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  4. Re:Great!!! by Dogtanian · · Score: 5, Funny

    Actually one of big advantages of Microsoft was internalization. You mean that it was possible to shove them up your ass?
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