Русская версия
An efficient presence in the Internet space is becoming a crucial success factor in the era of global digital technologies. It refers equally both to the commercial companies and whole cities. The online technologies are instrumental in implementing most daring and breath-taking projects to emphasize a city's identity or to reveal the full dimension of its cultural heritage.
Registration of new domain names in the root zone will give new opportunities for local (geographical) communities as well. From the very beginning when DNS became widespread the opportunity of self-identification not only by national but also by local (geographical) signs provoked interest and demand.Translation of the letter of support of .MOSCOW and .МОСКВА TLDs implementation, received from Moscow Department of Culture
To Olga Yakovleva, the director of
Autonomous non-commercial organisation
Regional Network Informational Center
Dear Olga Leonardovna!
Moscow Department of Culture has examined your proposal of the TLDs .MOSCOW and .МОСКВА
implementation and supposes that this idea is useful.
Among the main advantages of .MOSCOW and .МОСКВА introduction is a possibility of their use
for different kind of Moscow cultural organizations. The implementation of the TLDs will give an
opportunity to attract Internet-users' attention to such organizations by creating online-catalogs of
Moscow libraries, theaters, museums, exhibition-halls, etc.
Moscow Department of Culture is ready to participate in organizing and work of the Community
Consultation Council that will include governmental and civil-society organizations' representatives and
will define the rules for the TLDs. This Council could also examine the prospectives of usage of Moscow
top-level domains.
We're sure that the idea of .MOSCOW and .МОСКВА introduction will be supported by Muscovites, who
use the Internet in their every-day life.
Deputy manager of the Department of Culture of Moscow
V. I. Shamilin
The Original version of the document in Russian is avaliable here