[governance] ICANN declined Bulgarian IDN fast-track

[Adam Peake]

how would .бг be confusing when the second/third levels would also be Cyrillic?

Will be interesting to hear all sides of this during the Brussels ICANN meeting.

Adam



On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 6:00 AM,  <krum.jonev at dir.bg> wrote:
> 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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