[ga] Russia Weighs Going Cyrillic For DNS

["Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All,

  Looks allot like ICANN's feet dragging caused yet another
intentionally confusing consideration to exist, be corrected by
governments actions, and create more exposure from hackers,
and other miscreants unnecessarily.  The IDN confusion has
now come to pass in a very real way.  What a shame!

The Guardian reports that the
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jan/03/internet.censorship
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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