воскресенье, 19 февраля 2012 г.

Non-Latin URLs: introduction

Hello, everybody!!! In this blog I am going to post some interesting information about non-latin Web-addresses. 

Non - Latin URL or internationalized domain name (IDN) is an Internet domain name  which consists of language-specific script or alphabet, such as Arabic, Chinese, Russian, or the Latin-alphabet-based characters with special symbols, such as French.

The history of non-latin URLs began in 16 November 2009, when ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) voted in favour of non-Latin Web-adressses. At first, the change conserned only the last part of the URL - after the dot in dot-com. It meant that it was allowed to  register web-adresses like,  for example, www.yandex.рус instead of www. yandex.ru. 

Nowadays,  one can register fully Cyrillic or Arabic URLs. The fist such Web-address was launched  in Arabic countries: Egypt, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates. There are also Cyrillic URLs that were first registered in Russian Federation.
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  1. Duane Hettich24 февраля 2012 г. в 06:52

    Thanks for the start of your blog. I didn't know there were Cyrillic website addresses yet. Maybe there are. Give some examples. DH

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  2. Ann Skomorokhova24 февраля 2012 г. в 07:24

    Cyrillic website addresses exist already. May 13, 2010 the first Cyrillic URLs were registered on the Internet, for example президент.рф, правительство.рф, кц.рф.

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