Russia Weighs Going Cyrillic For DNS

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.

soviet russia bait

[savuporo]

i think this is a specially engineered news post to bring out the lamest "in soviet russia" jokes of slashdot. bring it on!

In Soviet Russia ...

[trolltalk.com]

In Soviet Russia, DNS blocks YOU.

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

Well...

[gibbdog]

In Soviet Russia, the domains name you!

Just to spike the ball.....

[edwardpickman]

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".

How long?

[A beautiful mind]

How long until someon registers rm.rf ?

In Soviet Russia ...

[morgan_greywolf]

In Soviet Russia, py ("pie") is confusing to ru ("roo")!

Re:Great!!!

[Dogtanian]

Actually one of big advantages of Microsoft was internalization.

You mean that it was possible to shove them up your ass?

That does it!

[Quiet_Desperation]

I'm registering my next domain in Klingon.

Re:Just to spike the ball.....

[Nerdfest]

The database oriented variation would be called "SQL Like a Pig".

Programming in Russian

[mi]

Soon to be followed by C++ in Cyrillic.

When we studied programming in high school, we used a language called "Ershov" (last name of the textbook's author), which was really Pascal translated to Russian.

I don't think, there was an actual compiler, though — nor did we have (enough) computers. Our little code-snippets were checked by the teacher by hand...

"One laptop per child"? Right...

In the American college, our professor was quite fond of (then brand new) Java. Among the advantages, he listed the ability of using non-ASCII characters. The poor man had to read my programs with variable-names in Ukrainian for the rest of the semester...

Re:How long?

[sootman]

My first thought was 'tm.rf'--in Soviet Russia, The Manual, um, Reads... wait...

Re:Language in Star Wars.

[Hoi Polloi]

When the computers take over we'll all be forced to speak in binary.

101101011101....

Re:How long?

[ed.markovich]

How long until someon registers rm.rf ? You know you've been studying for the CFA too intensely when rm.rf makes you think of 'market risk premium' * * E(Rm-Rf) where Rm is the return of the market and Rf is the risk-free rate, it's the extra return investors demand for investing in the risky market rather than earling the risk-free rate.

Re:In Soviet Russia ...

[fm6]

In Soviet Russia, they are so tired of this joke.