ICANN denies Greece IDN due to similarity to a non-existent domain name
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Greece's application for registering the national domain .ελ (Greek version of .gr) was rejected by ICANN because of its strong resemblance to .EA, a nonexistent top-level domain.
Our regular readers already know that there have already been similar events - Bulgaria’s application for domain.bg was rejected due to the similarity with the Brazil .br domain of Brazil .