[governance] ICANN declined Bulgarian IDN fast-track
krum.jonev at dir.bg
krum.jonev at dir.bg
Sun May 30 11:14:46 EDT 2010
Hi,
Two of the three applicant organizations to manage the IDN ccTLD have
stated that only Bulgarian Cyrillic will be supported at the second
level.
The same two applicants also proposed that all registered domains
should contain at least one unique Cyrillic character - б, г, д, ж, и,
й, л, п, ф, ц, ч, ш, щ, ь, ъ, ю, я
Regards,
Krum
On Sun, 30 May 2010 10:11:03 -0400
Avri Doria <avri at acm.org> wrote:
> 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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