THESE NEW CYRILLIC DOMAIN NAMES WILL SIMPLY CREATE A RUSSIAN INTRANET ...
PRESENTLY...ALL THE CONTENT ON A ROMAN LETTER DOMAIN CAN BE IN CYRILLIC IF THE WEB SITE CHOOSES...ONLY THE URL NEEDS TO BE IN ROMAN LETTERS.
YOU SIMPLY CAN NOT SEND CYRILLIC URLS ...INTO THE INTERNET CLOUD ...AND EXPECT SOME DOMAIN NAME SERVER SOMEWHERE TO RESPOND TO IT...
THE ONLY ROMAN LETTERS A RUSSIAN INTERNET USER HAS TO TYPE ARE THOSE IN THE URL...AFTER THAT IT'S ALL CYRILLIC .... BUT THIS TYPING IN ROMAN LETTERS REQUIRES YOU TO HAVE A LITTLE "BUG" IN TRAY AT THE BOTTOM OF YOUR SCREEN TO "TOOGLE" BETWEEN CYRILLIC AND ROMAN LETTERS...AND THE ARANGMENT OF OF THE KEY BOARD IS DIFFERENT...
(THIS RUSSIAN KEY BOARD HAS SOME INTERESTING "SIDE EFFECTS"...FOR EXAMPLE RUSSIANS CAN NOT DO "SIMILYS!"..... LIKE :-)
THE RUSSIAN KEYBOARD ALLOWS THEM TO DO ONLY...SOMETHING LIKE THIS... ))))...THAT IS A RUSSIAN SIMILY...! MOST CYRILLIC TYPERS ARE TOO LAZY OR RUSHED...TO TOOGLE INTO ROMAN JUST TO DO A SIMILEY CORRECTLY... :-)
RUSSIANS ALREADY HAVE THE .RU DOMAINS...
LIKELY THIS WILL ONLY FRAGMENT THE INTERNET FOR RUSSIANS...
AND IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT EVEN IN MOSCOW...ABOUT HALF OF THE ADVERTISING IS IN ROMAN LETTERS NOT CYRILLIC...! AND T-SHIRTS AND CLOTHING ARE NEARLY ALL LETTERED IN ROMAN LETTERS...
RUSSIANS SIMPLY CAN NOT FUNCTION WITHOUT KNOWING THE SOUNDS OF ROMAN LETTERS... BUT UNFORTUNATELY... FEW ENGLISH SPEAKERS CAN "SOUND OUT" A SIMPLE CYRILLIC STREET NAME...IF THEY ARE IN RUSSIA...
CYRILLIC IS BASED ON THE GREEK LETTERS...WITH A FEW NEW LETTERS FOR THE HIGH NUMBER OF "SH.." AND "CH..." SOUNDS IN SLAVIC LANGUAGES...
THE CYRILLIC ALPHABET WAS "INVENTED" IN THE 700'S TO HELP CONSTANTINOPLE CONVERT THE SLAVS TO ORTHODOX CHRISTIANITY....BY TRANSLATING THE BIBLE INTO WHAT WE NOW CALL: "OLD CHURCH SLAVONIC"...
EVEN WHILE THE CHURCH IN ROME INSISTED ON LATIN ONLY...UNTIL THE 20TH CENTURY!!
