[governance] Is really Bulgarian Cyrillic .бг (.bg) similar to other Latin ccTLDs?

[Paul Wilson]

In this whole discussion it is worth remembering that confusion of domain 
names is as old as the DNS itself, and has driven typo-squatting and other 
forms of "confusingly similar" domain name registration since well before 
IDNs and new TLDs were on the public agenda.

The solution, also an old one, is website certification which helps a 
domain name user trust that a given website/domainname is run by the right 
people.  The use of "extended validation certificates", and browser 
enhancements which make friendly use of that information, is all part of 
ensuring that users are safe(r) from the sort of fraud which relies on name 
confusion.

With new gTLDs and IDN, the problem is no different; it will be more 
widespread, but that can be weighed against a fairly popular view [sic] 
that new TLDs actually have some value in their own right...

Speaking for myself only.

Paul.




--On 1 December 2010 11:47:14 AM +0100 "Pouzin (well)" <pouzin at well.com> 
wrote:

> In my organization (EUROLINC), we believe that .бг is a perfectly
> legitimate cyrillic cctld.
>
> ICANN position is just a cat and mouse game for asserting their
> illegitimate "power". More than a dozen pure latin cctld are already
> totally confusing by their own rules. If they can't tell b from б, or 3
> from 8, they should get better glasses or font sets.



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Paul Wilson, Director-General, APNIC                      <dg at apnic.net>
http://www.apnic.net                                     +61 7 3858 3100

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