[governance] ICANN declined Bulgarian IDN fast-track request

[Yrjö Länsipuro]

Hi,
Would there be another meaningful Cyrillic string that would stand for Bulgaria? After all, in many cases IDN ccTLD's are not exact translitterations of the ASCII ccTLD, since in many languages/scripts such abbreviations don't make sense. 
Please note, too, that Russia could not have a Cyrillic translitteration of .ru, because it would have been identical with ASCII .py (Paraguay)
Best 
Yrjö Länsipuro


> From: krum.jonev at dir.bg
> To: governance at lists.cpsr.org
> Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 20:09:24 +0200
> Subject: [governance] ICANN declined Bulgarian IDN fast-track request
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I am new to this list, but I would like to bring to your attention an 
> issue that recently appeared in Bulgaria.
> 
> The Ministry of Transport, IT and Communications announced that ICANN 
> has declined the Bulgarian application in the new IDN ccTLD fast-track 
> process, as the proposed string .бг looked too much like the existing 
> ccTLD of Brazil (.br).
> 
> However, the people in Bulgaria that are in favor of introducing an 
> IDN ccTLD are practically mad of this decision. A few user groups sent 
> protest letters to the Ministry, advising them to appeal the ICANN`s 
> decision. Others just sit and doesn't know what to do.
> 
> Therefore, I am looking for your opinion on those questions - do you 
> think that the string .бг "presents an unacceptably high risk of user 
> confusion" with .br (as said in ICANN reply); and does Bulgaria have 
> any chance if decides to appeal, as this is the desire of the majority 
> of the Internet community? There were even two proposals of imposing a 
> requirement for the IDN ccTLD registry, to allow only registration of 
> domain names that contain an unique Cyrillic letter - in this way, all 
> similarities would be avoided.
> 
> Thank you in advance for you time.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Krum Jonev
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