This number system used Old Slavonic Cyrillic characters in alphabetical order. A special symbol - a wavy line called a titlo - was used to distinguish the letter from the numeral.

The Punycode version of the apple.com domain mentioned above, where the letter “a” is from Cyrillic, would be: xn--pple-43d.com. That’s what users would see in the browser address bar.

Representatives of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) handed Russia its Cyrillic domain administration certificate at an Internet forum that kicked off in Moscow.

Cyrillic .ukr domain to start operating on Internet in Feb-March 2010. The Ukrainian Network Information Center (UNIC) has submitted an application to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and ...