Bulgaria Applies for Top-Level Domain .bg in Cyrillic Script
Posted on June 23, 2008, 10:03 pm, by CircleID:, under
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Bulgaria has submitted a letter to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) for the Top-Level Domain (TLD) ‘.bg’ in Cyrillic script as part of efforts to boost national pride amid a growing influence of English. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has also called for his country to be assigned a Cyrillic TLD as the Kremlin is concerned that Russian, once the main language throughout the Soviet Union, is losing ground to local languages. More…
ICANN to vote on internationalised domain names
Posted on June 23, 2008, 4:44 pm, by David Meyer, under
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An ICANN voting session on Thursday could see internationalised domain names, trademark domain extensions and .xxx become a reality
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Bulgaria Applies For IDN Domain Extension
Posted on June 23, 2008, 2:23 pm, by Nick Wilsdon, under
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Bulgaria has entered an official application today to ICANN for the IDN extension .бг (.bg).
ICANN had raised the issue of IDN extensions at their recent Paris Conference, with a view to introducing a “limited number of non-contentious IDN ccTLDs, while an overall long-term IDN ccTLD policy is being developed” (DomainNews).
A representative of Bulgaria’s Governmental [...]
Posted on June 23, 2008, 6:05 am, by IDN News, under
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PARIS, June 22 (Itar-Tass) — The number of Russian Internet domains may rocket if it is permitted to give Cyrillic names to domains, a member of the Russian delegation to the Paris meeting of the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) on internationalized domain names told Itar-Tass on Sunday. Russia is taking part in the GAC forum [...]
