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

[Daniel Kalchev]

On 08.11.11 14:44, Adam Peake wrote:
>
> I'm guessing (a technically ignorant guess) that for a Bulgarian IDN 
> ccTLD, registrars should be able to recognize if the string someone 
> was trying to register was Cyrillic or not. So, for example, anything 
> that contained ascii could automatically be rejected. Not correct? Not 
> eyes that recognize, but software.

Your guessing is correct. But... :)

It is not computers that may be confused. For computers, these are 
utterly different strings. In fact, for a computer, any string, no 
matter how 'similar' someone claims it to be, as long as it has even a 
single different bit - is different. period.

Now, about humans... I have been discussing this with a lot of people 
all the way since this saga began. Human brain works in such a way, that 
humans do not recognize individual letters, nor they care of their 
similarity to any other individual letter. Humans recognize words. Now, 
before someone jumps in to say domain names are not words (*) just hold 
on a bit.

There is this famous English saying "it all looks greek to me" 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_to_me)
It says it all.

It is not only Cyrillic using users that will immediately recognize any 
text containing Cyrillic or ASCII as different, but also the typical 
America will too. They may not know that this is Cyrillic or Greek, but 
they will know it is not ASCII, or rather it is "strange characters". Or 
in our context: oh, this is one of those funny IDN domains.

>
> So I am guessing it would be possible to ensure no ascii string could 
> be registered under IDN .BG, and if that were so then the chance of 
> having a confusing string under either .BR or IDN .BG would be remote.
>

It is not only possible. It is certain that there will be no ASCII 
sub-domains under .бг

Daniel

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