ICANN rejected the proposed ..BG TLD
ICANN has rejected Bulgaria’s candidature for the occupation of the Cyrillic domain “.”, said Pyrvan Rusinov, Deputy Minister of Communications, Transport and Information Technologies, said. The reason for the refusal was the similarity of this suffix with the existing Brazil “.br” TLD.
Doubts about the approval of the domain for this very reason were before the receipt of a formal refusal.
What will happen now? As soon as possible, a public opinion survey will be conducted for possible alternative proposals. The previous survey of this kind showed that the second place after “.” is the combination of letters “.”.
Anyway, ICANN's refusal will delay the deployment of an alternative domain to the Bulgarian Internet. Meanwhile, last week, Russia, Egypt and Saudi Arabia launched multilingual top-level domains in their countries. One of the first Russian sites with a new extension is President.
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In the meantime, more than twenty countries have applied for non-English [non-Latin] top-level domains. It is not known how many of them are denied, like Bulgaria. The Ministry of Communications, Transport and Information Technologies is preparing a new proposal, and begins to hear opinions that the additional TLD will only bring havoc to the Internet and force companies to register their names under different domains.
Doubts about the approval of the domain for this very reason were before the receipt of a formal refusal.
What will happen now? As soon as possible, a public opinion survey will be conducted for possible alternative proposals. The previous survey of this kind showed that the second place after “.” is the combination of letters “.”.
Anyway, ICANN's refusal will delay the deployment of an alternative domain to the Bulgarian Internet. Meanwhile, last week, Russia, Egypt and Saudi Arabia launched multilingual top-level domains in their countries. One of the first Russian sites with a new extension is President.
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In the meantime, more than twenty countries have applied for non-English [non-Latin] top-level domains. It is not known how many of them are denied, like Bulgaria. The Ministry of Communications, Transport and Information Technologies is preparing a new proposal, and begins to hear opinions that the additional TLD will only bring havoc to the Internet and force companies to register their names under different domains.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/93982/
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