[governance] Is really Bulgarian Cyrillic .бг (.bg) similar to other Latin ccTLDs?

[Daniel Kalchev]

On Nov 3, 2011, at 4:33 AM, John Curran wrote:

> If I felt that ICANN had made a decision without full consideration
> of the relevant material information, I'd chat with their Ombudsman 
> to review the possible next steps in getting it corrected:

We have considered such course of action, but it turns out that the Ombudsman does not really have any say in such situations.

The problem is, that "ICANN" has decided nothing. They were advised by the "linguistic expert panel" that this string is confusingly similar with an existing ccTLD (funny, nobody ever says this is .br). Then ICANN staff offered the applicant to withdraw the application. There is no decision whatsoever by anybody at ICANN, including the board --- therefore no way to use the respective tools for appeal.

It cost me and a group of experts great effort to analyze the situation and suggest that the application should not be withdrawn without any proof related to this 'opinion'.
For me, the request to withdraw the application is a form of social engineering…

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