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Saturday, November 21, 2009 11:45 PM

Published 11/02/2009 by St. Petersburg Times Russia


Medvedev Gets Wish For .рф Domain

MOSCOW — The world’s governing body for Internet domain names voted Friday to allow the use of non-Latin characters, clearing the way for the .рф suffix and web sites named in Cyrillic.

The first step in a long effort to make the Internet less reliant on the...

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