Russian company to buy “.nyet” top-level domain
MOSCOW (UAP) – Starting tomorrow, internet domain name buyers will be able to buy “.nyet” domain names from the Russian company Nyetprom.
Nyetprom CEO Mikhail Kouylekov told the Unassociated Press, “We buy dot nyet because nyet is core part of Russian culture.”
The new top-level domain will be one of the earliest made available since ICANN, the International Corporation for the Assignment of Names and Ns, began allowing private companies to administer new TLDs.
The development follows the withdrawl of an American protest. U.S. officials had felt “.nyet” could be confusing for people searching for “.net” domain names.
American Undersecretary for the Internet, Cat Photos and LOLz Chuck Norris said, “We also thought it could be a really bad joke. Or a delivery mechanism for spam.”
Kouyelekov quickly quelled any concerns about humorous intent by noting, “I am Russian. We have no sense of humor that we know of. Look at Yakov Smirnov.”
