The most widely trafficked search engine in Russia, Yandex, estimated that fewer than 10 percent of the country’s Internet users would favor Cyrillic addresses in the near future. Livejournal, the busiest blogging platform in Russia, said it would not employ Cyrillic domains.This is one of those internationalism bad ideas that no one opposes, but no one wants either.
“I really do not see Cyrillic domains being popular,” said Dmitri N. Peskov, a prominent computer consultant who organizes Internet conferences in Russia. “People just do not see the point in having them.” ...
The most widely trafficked search engine in Russia, Yandex, estimated that fewer than 10 percent of the country’s Internet users would favor Cyrillic addresses in the near future. Livejournal, the busiest blogging platform in Russia, said it would not employ Cyrillic domains.
“I really do not see Cyrillic domains being popular,” said Dmitri N. Peskov, a prominent computer consultant who organizes Internet conferences in Russia. “People just do not see the point in having them.”
Why would anyone want domain names in Cyrillic or any other goofy foreign alphabet? I hope that I will be able to confure my browser to ignore such domains.
People use the internet as a universal communication tool. English is the universal language. Maybe Russian farmers talk to each other in something other than English, but there is no reason for educated people to use anything but English.
Using a Cyrillic character set for domain names is like using Roman numerals for telephone numbers.
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Thanks for leaving your comment in English.
Je ne crois pas que vous me comprendriez si j'écrivais dans n'importe quelle autre langue.
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That last comment just shows up as empty squares in my browser.
That's your problem. Works perfectly in mine. Perhaps you should stop staring at your navel, lift your head, and appreciate the huge variety of culture present in our world.
Or you can be like your brother Andy and refuse to admit the use of anything outside America.
You want me to admit the usefulness of posting empty boxes on my blog?
They aren't empty boxes, moron. Just because you haven't installed the necessary software doesn't mean the rest of the world is irrelevant.
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Rog, gimme a call:
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All I see are some weird boxes too. But, I'll freely admit to being almost wholly irrelevant. In fact, one might say that at a certain stage of my development I was impelled to adopt said relative irrelevance as a Basic Working Assumption.
Actually, there is not reason for educated people to use anything but Chinese. Don't you agree ?
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