[governance] ICANN declined Bulgarian IDN fast-track

[krum.jonev at dir.bg]

Hi,

.бг is the most meaningful representation (was selected with a full 
consensus between all interested parties) - and the local Internet 
community doesn`t want to give it up without at least an "appeal 
attempt" from the government.

Now we are trying to make the government communicate with ICANN and 
actually do something. That`s why I wanted to ask if we should appeal 
- maybe write to ICANN ombudsman, etc. However, there isn`t any formal 
appeal process for the decisions taken in the string evaluation part.

Among the proposed other options are .бгр (first association is 
Belgrade, not Bulgaria), .бул (first association is "bull") and 
.българия (which is ridiculously long for a tld).

There are more and more oppinions that any other IDN ccTLD string will 
"kill the idea", and even some people say that if we can not keep .бг, 
its better for Bulgaria not to have an IDN ccTLD at all.

Regards,
Krum

On Fri, 28 May 2010 23:28:46 +0300
  Yrjö Länsipuro <yrjo_lansipuro at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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