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In 1999 the organisation IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) formed the working group IDN (Internationalized Domain Name), authorising it to devise how to register domain names with the symbols from international alphabets. We are now in 2006, but where are the Russian domains Producers of browsers are in no hurry to give full support to the solution proposed by IDN, through security concerns. This solution opens up scope for fishing – net fraud, when users are lured to false websites, the addresses of which use Cyrillic letters, similar to Latin equivalents. Although ICANN has developed a system of recommendations, the administrators of international domains have themselves to resolve the issue of domains that contain symbols of the national alphabet. This matter has still to be resolved in the Russian zone.