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| Introduced | 2012 |
|---|---|
| TLD type | Internationalised (Cyrillic)country code top-level domain |
| Status | Active |
| Registry | RNIDS |
| Sponsor | RNIDS |
| Intended use | Entities connected with Serbia in theCyrillic script |
| Actual use | Limited use in Serbia |
| Registration restrictions | No policy defined |
| Documents | General Terms and Conditions for Registration |
| Dispute policies | Rulebook on Arbitrage Proceedings |
| Registry website | рнидс.срб |
.срб (romanized as.srb; abbreviation ofSerbian:Србија,romanized: Srbija) is theInternationalised (Cyrillic)Internetcountry code top-level domain (IDN ccTLD) forSerbia. It has been active since May 3, 2011 while the process of registering has started on 27 January 2012.[1]
The Serbian National Internet Domain Registry (RNIDS) has initiated on its forum (www.forum.rnids.rs) a public discussion on the Proposal of rules and processes for registering the Cyrillic domain ".срб".
The Proposal of rules and processes for registering the Cyrillic domain ".срб" is available on the forum of RNIDS. It regulates the registration of thesub-domain ".срб" and the reservation of other domains for the needs of RNIDS, the reservation of the ".срб" domain for the needs of the state, the reservation of the ".срб" domain based on the current .rs domain names and the allocation of the unique code to each and every reserved ".срб" domain.
The Rule book also determines the period for assigning the ".срб" domain according to thepriority right, after which the period of free registration of the ".срб" domain will commence, based on the same or similar rules now applicable for the .rs domain.
".срб" has, in many fonts, avery similar appearance to the Latin alphanumeric .cp6, which is not registered as a TLD. Similarly proposed TLDs.бг (for Bulgaria) and.ελ (for the Greece) have been rejected or stalled because of this problem, but ".срб" has not. The general policy for internationalized TLDs is to require at least one of the letters in a TLD to not resemble a Latin letter; 6 is a numeric digit (not a Latin letter) and is not used in any TLDs. Furthermore, though б appears similar to a 6 in most Cyrillic alphabets, it does not inSerbian, where it more closely resembles Greek lowercasedelta (δ), seethe relevant section in the article on the letterб.
