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20102010: Cyrillic in web addresses
A national script became part of domain names.
The .РФ domain was delegated to Russia on 12 May 2010 and entered the root DNS system.
Users could see Cyrillic addresses while infrastructure handled their technical encoding. Familiar language gained another point of contact with the global network.
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