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

[Petko Kolev]

Dear All,

I wish to add this to the discussion - think its important:

http://domainincite.com/bulgarians-step-up-icann-protest/ (from today)

Yours,
Petko

Bulgarian IT Users Group

On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 3:07 AM, Paul Wilson <pwilson at apnic.net> wrote:
> 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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