[governance] ICANN declined Bulgarian IDN fast-track request

[Desiree Miloshevic]

On 28 May 2010, at 21:28, Yrjö Länsipuro 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.
>
  is .бг is less similar to .br then .бр would be?

User's confusion with IDN strings in general, not just with Cyrillic  
and ASCII,
is one of expected "by-products", as well as one of many trade-offs we  
have to live with.

Desiree
--
> 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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