[governance] ICANN declined Bulgarian IDN fast-track

[Avri Doria]

Hi,

while I am not siding with those who say it would be confusingly similar, I also do not see any reason to assume that there would only be Cyrillic at the second level.

a.

On 30 May 2010, at 09:20, Adam Peake wrote:

> 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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