Joint UNESCO and ITU Global Symposium on Promoting the Multilingual Internet
StatusStatus ofof fullfull RussianRussian andand CyrillicCyrillic languagelanguage InternetInternet namesnames inin RussiaRussia
Mr.Sergey Sharikov CEO of Regtime.net Ltd
Geneva, 9-11 May 2006 Internet in Russia ITU-T There are 28.3 million peopleNow use Internet in Russia. It’s 21% of 18+ population. In 2005 a gain of a zone .RU has made 46,31%. It one of the highest parameters for all dotRU history.
Geneva, 9-11 May 2006 2 IDN.IDN demand in Russia ITU-T o For Russian, as well as for Chinese the English is not clear and is not supported by cultural traditions. o The roman spelling of domain names constrains development the Internet in Russia, where English is owned by units. o In result in Russia completely there is no culture of domain names, there is no motivation in purchase of a unique domain name. o Cyrillic-lingual registrations will not only create hundreds of thousands of attractive potential new domain names, but they will also enable our customers in the near future to reach out to their own communities and protect their established brands more effectively
Geneva, 9-11 May 2006 3 Regtime.net Ltd ITU-T Regtime.net Ltd is first and unique russian full multilingual domain names registrar. Our company initiated of IDN process in Russia since 2000 year. We are running IDN.IDN domain name within Russia (Cyrillic languages). We deployed fully Cyrillic (Russian language) IDN.IDN (Russian.Russian) domain names. Besides Regtime.net is accredited dotRU registrar. We have 10% russian domain name registration market.
Geneva, 9-11 May 2006 4 TLDs in Russian ITU-T We register full russian domain names in five TLDs in russian. generic: - .КОМ equivalent .COM - .НЕТ eq. .NET - .ОРГ eq. .ORG ccTLD: - .РУ eq. .RU (RUssia) - .РФ abbreviation of Russian Federation
Geneva, 9-11 May 2006 5 Examples of Websites ITU-T http://домены.ру http://регтайм.нет http://имена.ру http://президент.орг http://чувашия.ру http://росавтодор.ру http://амазон.ком
Geneva, 9-11 May 2006 6 http://кремль.орг ITU-T Full russian domain КРЕМЛЬ.ОРГ was registered by Administration of President Putin in 2002.
Geneva, 9-11 May 2006 7 .РУ registry in Russia ITU-T In June of 2003 with supporting of Russian Chamber of Commerce, we founded Russian Language NIC as nonprofit organisation. RLNIC become first full cyrillic ccTLD registry in Russia. Thousands .РУ domain names has been registered by registrars from Moscow, St.Petersburg and Novosibirsk.
Geneva, 9-11 May 2006 8 Keywords registration ITU-T Regtime.net is launching Russian Keywords in June 2006. Keyword allows any Internet end-user who types that Keyword on an Internet Browser to be re- directed/forwarded to an Internet Web-site specified by the Keyword registrant.
Geneva, 9-11 May 2006 9 Where to register ITU-T There are two main websites in Russia offer to register IDN.IDN domains: www.regtime.net and www.webnames.ru
Geneva, 9-11 May 2006 10 RLWG of MINC ITU-T To cater to public policy issues, we at Regtime initiated Russian Language Working Group of MINC together with Russian language experts, representatives of the President of Russia Executive Office, The Russian Academy of Sciences and Russian Institute of Public Networks. This has allowed us to coordinate amongst Russians and others in the Cyrillic language community.
Geneva, 9-11 May 2006 11 CyrLINC ITU-T On initiative of Regtime.net Cyrillic Languages Internet Names Consortium (CyrLINC.org) was founded in 2003. CirLINC aims to coordinate efforts to develop Multilingual Internet name system and applications within cyrillic languages countries and territories. Representatives of Ukraine, Bulgaria and Greece(as observer) join to CyrLINC.
Geneva, 9-11 May 2006 12 Cyrillic Tables for IDN ITU-T We have helped obtain consensus on the cyrillic language tables amongst Russian, Belarus, Ukraine and Bulgaria issuing internet draft “Internationalized Domain Names Registration and Administration Guideline for Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian and Byelorussian languages” . (http://cyrlinc.org/docs/draft-cyrlinc-idn-reg- 00.txt) This tables was approved as MINC draft.
Geneva, 9-11 May 2006 13 IDN.IDN issues ITU-T
o Need coordination o Need IDN.IDN support by most popular browser o Need IDN.IDN support by authority roots
Geneva, 9-11 May 2006 14 For more information ITU-T o http://www.regtime.net o http://www.webnames.ru o http://www.rlnic.ru o http://www.minc.org o http://www.cyrlinc.org o http://www.minc.org/WG/russian/
o Sergey Sharikov [email protected]
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