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RUSSIA: WEB ADDS CYRILLIC DOMAIN NAMES.

IPR Strategic Business Information Database, November, 2003

U.S.-based VeriSign has begun registering web addresses containing Cyrillic characters in the .com and .net domains, lenta.ru reported on 14 November. Bart McKay, VeriSign vice president for international relations, told "Vedomosti" on 14 November, "Russian will become the fourth non-English language after Chinese, Korean, and Japanese that can be used in Internet addresses in the .com and .net domains." Observers were split on the commercial benefits, with some seeing a boon for Russian companies with names that do not lend themselves to obvious Latin transcriptions and others seeing a gimmick. Aleksei Lesnikov, deputy director of the Russian Institute for Public Networks, which registers Internet addresses in the .ru domain, told "Kommersant-Daily" on 13 November that...

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