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 Today I am going to tell you about Cyrillic web addresses registered in Russia.

Russian federation was the first country that received Cyrillic domain .рф. Open registration of such domain names began on 11 November 2010. Nowadays, as experts say, almost 900.000 Cyrillic URLs exist. But there are also some problems connecting with this.

Firstly, there are no hosting sites offering free registration of domain .рф. One has to pay approximately $5 to register and $15 a year to prolong the domain.

Secondly, many Internet users claim that sites with Cyrillic Web address are less popular comparing with the sites using traditional Latin URLs.

Also, in fact, most sites use both Cyrillic and Latin web address. But very often search engines find only their Latin variants, which makes users argue about usefulness of Cyrillic domains.

But, nevertheless, allowing of internationalized domain names is a great step forward in the development of the Global network.