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Anniversary of .срб Domain Marked and Almono RNIDS Gifted to the Internet Community

The fourteenth anniversary of the .срб domain was marked by the “Serbian National Internet Domain Registry” Foundation (RNIDS) on 27 January 2026, by giving the gift of “content that creates content.” This year as well, internet users were gifted another new, contemporary and distinctive Serbian Cyrillic typeface — Almono RNIDS. With this addition, the existing collection of free RNIDS fonts has been expanded and now includes a total of seven typefaces primarily intended for on‑screen use. The new typeface is available for free download at иманаћирилици.срб.

28.01.2026.

Link as you speak!

As of January 27th website owners in Serbia and the Diaspora can register the Cyrillic domain .СРБ as well. During the first six months, only the owners of existing or newly registered .RS domain names will be eligible to register .СРБ domain names at a special price. After this period, anyone will be able to register Cyrillic domain names, regardless of whether they have a specific .RS domain name or not. Internet users should know that they need not enter "www" in front of the Cyrillic URL. That is the remnant of the original practice in writing URLs because all existing sites with Latin domain names function without "www" if servers where they are placed are properly set. The Cyrillic Internet domain .СРБ is a new, second country code Top Level Domain of the Republic of Serbia, which means that in the future it will be equally used as the existing .RS ccTLD. From a practical viewpoint, the same website will be visible at both addresses, .СРБ and .RS, if that is what its owner wants and if the server is set that way. After the Russian Cyrillic domain .РФ, our .СРБ is the second Internet domain in the Cyrillic script in the world...

27.01.2012.

Cyrillic domain .срб became visible on the Internet

The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) reached the decision to assign the management of the Cyrillic domain .срб to the Serbian National Register of Internet Domain Names (RNIDS). The Serbian Cyrillic Internet domain .срб became visible on the Internet on the May 3rd 2011 after updating the data in the root DNS tables. It means that it is possible now to use Cyrillic script and Serbian language in composing Internet addresses within the .срб domain space in DNS (Domain Name System). In November 2010, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) assigned the Cyrillic domain .срб to our country as the second country code Top Level Domain. On April 21st 2011, ICANN supported the request to delegate the management of the Cyrillic domain to RNIDS. This is a significant step to begin the process of registering Cyrillic domains.

06.05.2011.

Cyrillic domain .срб presented abroad

The 4th CENTR Marketing Workshop took place in Brussels on November 25th. The Serbian National Register of Internet Domain Names (RNIDS) participated in the conference. CENTR is an association which gathers authorised European national top level domain registries. However, Japan, Iran, New Zealand and Canada are also its members. The Marketing Workshop was an opportunity to promote the Cyrillic domain .срб abroad for the first time. The domain was presented to representatives of European national registries who participated in the conference. To make this event memorable, a photo of participants was taken with the symbol of a heart having the Cyrillic domain .срб written on it.

26.11.2010.

Roundtable discussion on .СРБ domain at "Telefor"

RNIDS would like to invite you to join the roundtable discussion ".СРБ ‑ the Cyrillic Internet domain of Serbia", organised within the 18th telecommunications convention TELFOR 2010. The discussion will take place on November 24th, from 11 am to 1:15 pm, at Sava Centre, Room 3/0, 9 Milentija Popovića Street, Belgrade. Mr. Nikola Marković will moderate the discussion. What follows is a list of topics and presenters: ‑ Mr. Milenko Vasić: "The process of choosing the Cyrillic domain of Serbia" ‑ Mr. Vojislav Rodić: "Proposals of RNIDS Working Group regarding rules for registering the Cyrillic domain" ‑ Ms. Julia Ovchinnikova, TLD RU Coordination Centre: ".РФ domain registration in 2010: Results and Experiences" This roundtable discussion will be followed by a panel discussion on rules of registering the Cyrillic domain .СРБ, interest protection of .RS domain registrants and priority rights for registering the Cyrillic domain. RNIDS initiated public discussion on Rule book for registering Cyrillic domain ".срб” The Serbian National Register of Internet Domain Names (RNIDS) has initiated on its forum (www.forum.prod.rnids.beeloc.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 the sub‑domain “.срб”...

18.11.2010.

Russian domain “.рф” already one of Europe's twenty biggest

Russia is the first country allowed by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to register Cyrillic domain names, with the label .рф, apart from the already existing Latin string .ru. The process of registering the Russian Cyrillic domain .рф commenced on November 11th at noon, according to the Moscow time. The interest of users to register the second Russian domain is unchanged. The commencement of the registration process attracted a large number of Internet users in Russia and over 100,000 domains were registered during the first three hours. A total of 258,000 .рф domain names were registered by the end of the first registration day. By the end of November 14th, 408,959 Cyrillic .рф domain names were registered. During this short period of three and a half days, the new Russian domain entered the list of the twenty largest European domains.

16.11.2010.

More than 100,000 users registered ".рф” during the first 3 hours of registration

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) approved the first non‑Latin ccTLDs on April 27th 2010. Egypt, Russia, Saudi Arabia and The United Arab Emirates (UAE) were then approved to use ccTLDs written in their own scripts. Russia became the first country provided with the possibility of registering domain names in Cyrillic, with the label “.рф”, apart from the existing Latin string “.ru”. The process of registering “.рф” domains commenced on November 11th 2010 at noon, according to Moscow time. This attracted a large number of Internet users in Russia. During the first hour of the registration, 36,607 new domains were registered, 43,054 Cyrillic domains were registered during the second hour, and 41,456 during the third hour. Before the process of registering the second national domain commenced, more than 18,000 users got the priority right for registering the Cyrillic domain ".рф” in order to protect their brands. A considerable interest of users for registering the Russian Cyrillic domain justifies the decision of ICANN to carry out IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process and enable domains to be registered in national scripts.

11.11.2010.

Proposal “.срб” accepted as Cyrillic domain of Serbia

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) finalized the technical assessment of the proposals submitted by the Serbian National Register of Internet Domain Names (RNIDS) and accepted the label “срб” as the Cyrillic domain of Serbia. The decision of ICANN that the label “срб” fulfills requirements for the Cyrillic domain of Serbia on the Internet represents the first step in the process of approving the new domain. What needs to be done is to finalize the formal procedure and promote the Cyrillic domain “срб” as the second Internet domain of Serbia. The entire process of assigning a new domain to the authorized national register lasts between three and six months and, in accordance with the Fast Track process for approving non‑Latin domains, ICANN publishes a list of new approved domains every month. A public discussion on principles to be included in the Rulebook on registering the Cyrillic domain of Serbia on the Internet will be initiated soon. The process of registering the Cyrillic domain is expected to commence in the second half of 2011. The official announcement of RNIDS is available here.

08.11.2010.

IDN encoder set at RNIDS Website

RNIDS has set an IDN encoder at its Website, at IDN Encoder and, thus, provided the site visitors with the possibility to see how an IDN domain name is converted to its ACE (ASCII Compatible Encoding) form. This conversion of the UNICODE domain name to its ACE form enables the Domain Name System (DNS) to recognise domain names written in a national script (for instance, in Cyrillic) and link them with corresponding Internet addresses. A detailed explanation of what happens with IDN domain names before their use by DNS is available here.

20.10.2010.

Voting results for Cyrillic domain of Serbia

On March 5th 2010 the Serbian National Register of Internet Domain Names initiated the procedure for introducing the Cyrillic IDN ccTLD that would represent Serbia on the Internet. The procedure is defined by ICANN in The Final Implementation Plan for IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process. Proposals for the Cyrillic domain of Serbia were collected at the beginning of July in a comprehensive and serious campaign during which the Internet community of Serbia was invited to vote. The last step in the procedure was voting for one of four proposals. The voting results show that the Internet community responsibly and seriously participated in the process of selecting the Cyrillic domain of Serbia. Apart from 10,505 people who voted on the Website of RNIDS, two control groups contained approximately 1,000 voters. The aim of the control voting was to confirm results of the basic voting. The Serbian National Register of Internet Domain Names would like to thank everybody who participated in the choice of our Cyrillic domain. Additional information on the voting and the following steps for introducing the Cyrillic domain is available here.

12.07.2010.

Voting for proposals of Cyrillic IDN ccTLD to terminate on 16 June 2010

The working group of the Serbian National Register of Internet Domain Names (РНИДС), which had been tasked with carrying out a campaign for choosing the Cyrillic name to be used as the ccTLD representing Serbia on the Internet, decided to terminate the voting process as of Wednesday, June 16th at midnight. Last month, interested citizens were able to give their vote to one of the following four proposals: срб, србија, сб or рсб. During the process of reviewing the preliminary voting results, it was concluded that the turnout was above satisfactory. The voting results will be published at the end of June.

15.06.2010.

Working group report on choosing the proposal for the Cyrillic IDN of Serbia

The working group for choosing the Cyrillic ccTLD of the Republic of Serbia has adopted the report on selecting the proposals which are to be put to vote for the Cyrillic domain name. The working group report is available here. To see the list of all the received proposals along with their grades, adopted by the working group as final, please click here.

17.05.2010.