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| TLD type | Cyrillic country code top-level domain |
|---|---|
| Status | proposed |
| Intended use | Entities connected with Ukraine |
| Registration restrictions | Intended for Cyrillic domain names; no policy is defined. |
The domain name укр (abbreviation of Ukrainian: Україна, transliterated: Ukrayina, English: Ukraine) is a proposed internationalized country code top-level domain (IDN ccTLD) for Ukraine.
History
In June 2008 the ICANN approved a document that foresees the introduction of high-level domain names in Cyrillic and other national non-Latin alphabets.[1]
On November 17, 2009 Ukraine initiated an application to ICANN for assignment of the Cyrillic top-level domain name 'укр'.[1][2] Already in December 2008 the Company Center for Internet names of Ukraine had announced the registration of domain names in two new top-level domains 'укр' and 'БЛОГ' (transliterated: BLOG).[3] The full set of required documents was submitted to ICANN on November 26, 2009 by the Ukrainian Network Information Center (UNIC).[4]
The domain was expected to be available in the first half of 2010 since assignment of top-level domain takes about a month.[5][dubious ] UNIC Director Yuriy Honcharuk expected the new domain to start operating on the Internet in February–March 2010.[4]
According to Honcharuk there are no technical issues preventing the assignment of this Cyrillic domain.[4] President Oleksandr Olshansky of the Ukrainian Internet company Internet Invest[6][7] considered it unlikely that укр will be assigned by ICANN, however. According to Olshansky the existing rules for non-Latin domain names stipulate that at least one letter should differ in the shape from the corresponding Latin character.[1] The country name Україна (Ukraine) does not contain any letter whose shape does not exist in any Latin language.
International experts predict that in coming years Cyrillic domains in Russia and Ukraine could reach about 20% of the current level of website pages.[8] Ukraine was one of the first countries that applied for the creation of domains in their native writing system, following Russia, Egypt and China.[8] The new Russian Cyrillic country code top-level domain рф was approved by ICANN on 30 October 2009[9] and was installed in the Domain Name System on May 13, 2010.
On March 1, 2011, ICANN announced that the .укр domain had passed string evaluation, the step before delegation.[10]
See also
References
- ^ a b c Market operator: Cyrillic .укр domain unlikely to be registered, Kyiv Post (November 18, 2009)
- ^ Ukraine to register domain '.укр' , Ukrinform (November 17, 2009)
- ^ (Russian) В Украине появятся кирилличные домены .Укр и .Блог, Korrespondent (December 9, 2008)
- ^ a b c Cyrillic .ukr domain to start operating on Internet in Feb-March 2010, Kyiv Post (November 27, 2009)
- ^ (Russian) Ъ: Регистрация сайтов в доменной зоне .укр начнется через полгода, (November 17, 2009)
- ^ Archived Whois, Who.is
- ^ UNIAN Stock Market, UNIAN (June 11, 2008)
- ^ a b (Russian) Украина регистрирует национальный интернет-домен «.укр», bigmir)net (November 18, 2009)
- ^ (Russian) Русскоязычная доменная зона .РФ заработает в ноябре, Lenta.Ru (October 24, 2009)
- ^ IDN ccTLD Request From Ukraine Successfully Passes String Evaluation, ICANN (March 1, 2011)
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