Worth using new domain zones
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2025 8:50 am
For example, if you buy links on exchanges, you may encounter the fact that not all sites “understand” the Cyrillic alphabet in the spelling of the domain name.
Turning again to Yandex, let us recall its recommendation that there are cases when it is objectively necessary to convert domains so that browsers can “understand” the user.
For example, the use of Cyrillic is simply impossible when forming robots.txt files (which is of great importance for promotion) and server http headers. In such a situation, Punycode should be used, that is, the addresses of the site itself and all its pages will be written in the encoding that corresponds to the encoding of the resource structure itself.
robots.txt and punycode
Please note: the word “online store” as a site nurse phone number data is encoded in Punicode,
and “/cart” is encoded in URLEncode.
Quick background: what is Punycode?
Punycode is a standardized way to convert characters in a given encoding, in our case Unicode (alphanumeric characters only). This method was specifically designed to unambiguously convert domain names.
Thus, we see that the only difficulty is to write xn--80aswg.xn--p1ai instead of, say, website.rf!
Summary
So, is it or giving preference to the good old proven “dinosaurs”?
There can be no single recipe here - you are free to choose the name that you like best, otherwise, with some effort, you can promote any of your domains and, accordingly, sites. The main thing is to approach the matter wisely and not blindly believe all the "myths and legends" on the Internet.
Turning again to Yandex, let us recall its recommendation that there are cases when it is objectively necessary to convert domains so that browsers can “understand” the user.
For example, the use of Cyrillic is simply impossible when forming robots.txt files (which is of great importance for promotion) and server http headers. In such a situation, Punycode should be used, that is, the addresses of the site itself and all its pages will be written in the encoding that corresponds to the encoding of the resource structure itself.
robots.txt and punycode
Please note: the word “online store” as a site nurse phone number data is encoded in Punicode,
and “/cart” is encoded in URLEncode.
Quick background: what is Punycode?
Punycode is a standardized way to convert characters in a given encoding, in our case Unicode (alphanumeric characters only). This method was specifically designed to unambiguously convert domain names.
Thus, we see that the only difficulty is to write xn--80aswg.xn--p1ai instead of, say, website.rf!
Summary
So, is it or giving preference to the good old proven “dinosaurs”?
There can be no single recipe here - you are free to choose the name that you like best, otherwise, with some effort, you can promote any of your domains and, accordingly, sites. The main thing is to approach the matter wisely and not blindly believe all the "myths and legends" on the Internet.