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"As a Bulgarian (the homeland of the inventors of the Cyrillic alphabet)..."
Actually, Kyril was a Greek...
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haha ! They were brothers, man ! It's not really possible one of them to be a greek and the other a Bulgarian ;-) re-check your history book.
And what a typical greek name at that : Kyril !
Now seriously : yes, there will be fragmentation, but as people already said : it's fragmented by content.
Besides : I was forced to learn the latin letters in order to use the Internet (and use sites in English). I just need the same freedom for my native language. And yes, it will require some effort from you to come and visit such sites, but this will be no more than the effort I'm making to go and open e.g. this site, so it should be bearable.
Phishing, yes, that can be a problem, but it will be a problem mainly if the cyrillic is restricted to part of the names. If it's on the whole address you won't have to switch to type it, so you're less exposed to typing errors.
About the Bulgarian<->Latin transliteration : until recently there was no standard transliteration for Bulgarian. There were several tables in place (hence the confusion). And, let's admit it : latin is simply not reach enough of a alphabet to represent all the sounds in the slavic languages (as proved by all these various accented letters found in slavic languages written in latin).
I can imagine there's similar problems with all alphabets (chinese, korean, thai etc.). So let's get on with it and start using Unicode. It's capable of solving a lot of problems.
And the old excuse that it requires more resources is simply not serious in the modern Pentium powered megabyte-measured times.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
