As the operator of the national top-level domain name, the Internet Technology Center implemented Supports email addresses entirely in Russian.
Previously, the registration system only accepted contact addresses in a mixed format: Latin before the “@” sign and Cyrillic after (for example, info@3dnews.rf). Thanks to the update, users can now specify their email without using Latin characters: for example, info@3daynews.rf. The possibility of creating such addresses became possible thanks to the EAI standard and the SMTPUTF8 extension, which was adopted in 2012 for handling characters from the national alphabet in the local part of the address. Prior to this, the IDNA standard was launched in 2003. However, the infrastructure in the Cyrillic region only partially supported this technology for a long time.
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The Russian Cyrillic top-level domain name .РФ was officially authorized to Russia by the international organization ICANN on May 12, 2010. Currently located in the .РФ domain area Registered More than 806,000 names. Almost a third (32.1%) of these point to applications and single-page websites (landing pages, ads, etc.), about a quarter (24.1%) point to full-fledged unique websites, another 23.9% are located in parking lots, 12.3% are dedicated to mail services, and 7.7% redirect to websites with addresses in other domain areas.
Today, there are 17 Cyrillic top-level domains in the world: 9 are national IDNs and 8 are generic. Most countries that use the Cyrillic alphabet have their Cyrillic top-level domains registered. These countries include Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Serbia, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and the European Union.
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