The document summarizes the history and timeline of the .срб domain, the top-level domain for websites using the Serbian Cyrillic alphabet. It discusses how the domain was proposed in 2009, launched in 2011, and is now managed by RNIDS. It provides details on the sunrise period that gave existing .rs domain holders priority registration, and the rules for transliterating .rs names into Cyrillic. The document argues that .срб ensures Serbians can use the internet in their official script and reserves space for future growth as more things become connected.
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. TimelineСРБ
? Foundation
? 60+ Co-founders
? 40 Registrars
November 2009
? ICANN launches a fast track process for obtaining top-level
domains which paves the way for IDN.
December 2009
? Serbian Government tasks the Ministry for
Telecommunications and Information Society (MTID) to obtain
a Cyrillic domain.
February 2010
? RNIDS begins a public debate on the need for a Cyrillic
domain and initiates a procedure to choose a localised top-
level domain extension in the Serbian language and the
Cyrillic script.
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. TimelineСРБ
? Foundation
? 60+ Co-founders
? 40 Registrars
16th
June 2010
? The public debate, survey and vote on what to call the Cyrillic
Internet domain of Serbia come to a close. The two proposals
with the most votes from the Serbian Internet community are
sent to ICANN for evaluation.
? .срб had 8336 votes
? .срби?а had 1734 votes
15th
July 2010
? MTID determines that RNIDS meets all the conditions for
managing the register of Cyrillic domains.
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8 November
2010
? Foundation
? 60+ Co-founders
? 40 Registrars
...IDN ccTLD
Request From
Serbia
Successfully
Passes String
Evaluation...
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. TimelineСРБ
? Foundation
? 60+ Co-founders
? 40 Registrars
September - November 2010
? Task group drafts registration rules for .СРБ
November - December 2010
? A public debate on the principles and rules of registering
Cyrillic domain names begins.
21st
April 2011
? The ICANN Board of Directors backs the request that the
management of the .срб domain be assigned to RNIDS.
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. TimelineСРБ
? Foundation
? 60+ Co-founders
? 40 Registrars
3rd
May 2011
? The Cyrillic domain .срб becomes accessible on the Internet
after the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) assigns
its management to RNIDS.
11th
May 2011
? The new, official RNIDS website becomes the first local site to
use the new top-level Cyrillic domain, at the
address?рнидс.срб.
28th
May 2011
? Regulatory enactments governing the registration of .срб
domains are approved at a meeting of the RNIDS Assembly
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Regulatory
principles
? Foundation
? 60+ Co-founders
? 40 Registrars
? ICANN and РНИДС rules and regulations
? Internet best practice
? Existing .RS registrants are protected during sunrise
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Regulatory
principles
? Foundation
? 60+ Co-founders
? 40 Registrars
? Subdomain structure in .СРБ equals the corresponding one within .RS
? List of .СРБ subdomains:
? .co.rs - .пр.срб
? .edu.rs - .обр.срб
? .org.rs - .орг.срб
? .in.rs - .од.срб
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How to get
your . domainсрб
? Foundation
? 60+ Co-founders
? 40 Registrars
? Transliteration – no transcription or semantics of existing .RS domains in
different languages
? Three possible situations:
? Exact match of latin and cyrillic domain names
? .RS domain names contain latin letters that also exist with diacritical signs in
latin used in Serbia (c, s, lj, nj, dj, dz)
? .RS domain names containing letters "q", "w", "y" and "x"?are reserved by
special rules
rnids.rs ? рнидс.срб
?
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Example 1
? Foundation
? 60+ Co-founders
? 40 Registrars
? For .RS domain "cesljanje.rs“ all possible combinations will be reserved in .СРБ
domain:
? цеслан?е.срб c = ц
? ?еш?а?е.срб ? = ?
? чес?а?е.срб ? = ч
? ?ес?а?е.срб s = с
? чеш?а?е.срб ? = ш
? …….
?
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Example 2
? Foundation
? 60+ Co-founders
? 40 Registrars
q, w, y, x
Reserved .срб domains make no sense!
? qualiweld.rs => ???али??шелд.с
? wallpaper.rs => ??шаллпапер.срб
? winner.rs => ??шиннер.србсрб
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Sunrise rules
? Foundation
? 60+ Co-founders
? 40 Registrars
Registering . during sunrise periodСРБ
? Duration: 6 months
? .СРБ domains can be registered only by
RS domain registrants
? Preferred registration fee for .срб
domains during sunrise and following
three months will be 1 dinar (1 Eurocent)
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Sunrise rules
? Foundation
? 60+ Co-founders
? 40 Registrars
Registering . during sunrise periodСРБ
? What if registrants want a different domain
name in .СРБ than the reserved one?
? Register appropriate .RS domain and
provide yourself with corresponding
.СРБ domain, e.g.:
? philips.rs => пхилипс.срб
filips.rs => филипс.срб
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Landrush and
beyond
? Foundation
? 60+ Co-founders
? 40 Registrars
? After sunrise period, free registration
in .СРБ domain begins, by rules
similar to General rules of registration
in .rs domain.
? Bundling of .СРБ domain with .RS domain
will make .СРБ domain significantly more affordable, then the stand alo
registration
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Why . ?СРБ
The only domain in which internet
addresses are written exactly the same
way as they are spoken.
Thanks to the peculiarity of the Serbian
Cyrillic where one phoneme matches one
letter, addresses under the .СРБ domain will
unequivocally be pronounced exactly as they
are written, unlike (for instance) numerous
domain names in the English alphabet.
Therefore:
“Link as you speak!”
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Why . ?СРБ
Ensures that the citizens of Serbia
can pursue their constitutional right
to use Internet domains in their
official script.
At a time when Internet access is coming to be
considered a basic human right in the developed
countries and when the world’s largest countries
look to preserve their national identity through
domain names in the local script, Serbia has been
one of the first to embark on introducing a non-Latin
script domain.
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Why . ?СРБ
Timely reservation of free
Internet space for future
requirements.
Internet growth is so rapid that very soon
almost every person will have to have his or
her own Internet identity.
One can have more than one Internet
identity: personal, familly, professional,
hobby...
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Why . ?СРБ
Timely reservation of free Internet
space for future requirements.
It is predicted that many of the devices we
use everyday will even have their own
Internet addresses. A futuristic example
would go something like this.
Your digitised car with the address
“мо?а?утамашина.срб”
(“mymeanmachine.srb”) books itself in for a
service and oil change! At the same time
“myfridge.srb“ orders milk, eggs and
groceries in the internet shop!
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What are the
characters
Serbian Cyrillic domain names, besides
the 30 letters of the Serbian Cyrillic alphabet (а-
ш), may contain numbers and hyphens (-).
They cannot contain a hyphen at the start or
the end or two consecutive hyphens in the third
and fourth positions. .срб domain names can
contain a maximum of 63 ASCII characters
after ASCII Compatible Encoding (ACE).
.срб = xn--90a3ac
63
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Preparing
registries
? Preparations for software upgrade incl.
consultations with registrars Jun – Aug 2011
? Software development Sep – Nov 2011
? Software testing Nov – Dec 2011 (2 registrars
took part in testing)
? Sunrise started on January 27th, noon
? At sunrise 33 out of 35 Registries were .срб
ready.
? Two weeks later all 35 have complied with
requirements for .срб