On May 12, as part of the celebration of the 15th anniversary of the national Cyrillic domain .РФ (means «Russian Federation») has signed a Memorandum on the development of support for Internet addressing in the official language of the Russian Federation. The document confirms the intentions of key Internet industry participants to expand support in Russian software for domains included in the Russian national domain zone and email addresses in Russian, the official language of the Russian Federation.

The domain .ДЕТИ (means “dot children”) has also joined the Memorandum, which firstly is part of the so-called "Russian national domain zone", and secondly is Cyrillic (that is only Russian characters can be used to register domain names in it). The document was signed by Vladimir Mamontov, Director of the Smart Internet Foundation, functioning as .ДЕТИ registry. Thus, he confirmed the organization's intentions to promote the development of support for Russian-language domains and e-mail.

The Memorandum was also joined by: The Coordination Center for TLD .RU/.РФ, domains .MOSCOW and .МОСКВА, domain .SU, domain .РУС (means “dot .rus”), domain name registrars Ru-center and Reg.ru, Technical Center Internet, MSK-IX, manufacturers of Russian software, universities involved in the development and promotion of the Russian language on the Internet; public organizations.

The Memorandum is open for Russian organizations interested in promoting the development of the Internet in the official language of the Russian Federation and implementing measures in their activities to introduce maximum support for domain names and e-mail addresses with Russian alphabet characters in Internet-oriented software. The holder of the memorandum is the The Coordination Center for TLD .RU/.РФ.