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Cyrillic domain .mkd chosen in MARnet online poll |
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Monday, 28 January 2013 |
Macedonia in the international Internet space is represented with .mk. For domestic use, readers decided to pick the Cyrillic domain .мкд, shows an online poll by the
Macedonian Academic Research Network (MARnet) published on its website. The voting ended on 15 January 2013. Several
proposals, including .мкд, .мак, .македонија, .рмкд, .рм and .рмак, were
offered in the poll. 72.98% out of a total of 2,288 citizens deemed
that .мкд should be used as a domain.
The winning domain will be submitted to the Internet
Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) as an official
request for launching the process of obtaining a Cyrillic domain for
Macedonia.
"The national Cyrillic domain will enable the
citizens in Macedonia to use the Internet in their Cyrillic alphabet in
an effort to preserve the national identity by using domains in
Macedonian language," reads a press release by the Ministry of
Information Society and Administration.
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