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Cyrillic and the Internet
01/02/2022
To mark 10 years since registrations began in the Cyrillic .срб domain, the Serbian National Internet Domain Name Registry Foundation (RNIDS) has gifted another Serbian Cyrillic typeface, designed primarily for screen/online use. Lingva RNIDS is a serif typeface comprising four fonts which,...
29/01/2021
Orto RNIDS is a new Cyrillic typeface created primarily for on-screen display, a gift from the Serbian National Internet Domain Name Registry Foundation (RNIDS) to Internet users, which can be downloaded for free from our site, rnids.rs. This is the second Cyrillic typeface that RNIDS has supported...
06/12/2018
There is a saying in Serbian that “You are worth the number of languages you speak”. As of 10th December our .RS domain will “speak” no less than 13 languages, supporting the specific letters of their official scripts. In addition to Serbian letters, .RS domain names will support characters...
25/01/2018
“When we began using computers we had no inkling of the extent to which they would change our life habits. The march of technology has also impacted the use of our traditional script. Now, however, new ways are opening up to spread the use of the Cyrillic alphabet online – and this time...
06/02/2017
Use of the Cyrillic script in everyday communication – and therefore online too – is not, as some would have it, a nationalist statement, it is a sign of respect for one’s language, just as nations all around the world value their identity. This sentence summarises the Cyribusters 2 panel...
02/02/2016
A number of myths about the use of Cyrillic on the Internet – for example that Google “doesn't like” our official script, that there are not enough Cyrillic fonts, that using Cyrillic makes it difficult to expand one’s online business and other beliefs – were put to rest on 27th January 2016...
26/02/2014
On the second anniversary of the .СРБ internet domain, on 27th January 2014, the Serbian National Internet Domain Registry (RNIDS), organised a panel debate called “Cyrillic and the Internet, in Serbia and around the world” at the Belgrade Centre for the Promotion of Science.
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30/01/2013
The registration of Cyrillic Internet .СРБ domain names started on January 27th 2012, resulting in more than 6,800 domain names of this type that have been registered in the course of one year. Since there are currently over 77,000 .RS domain names, the above number shows that the .СРБ...
