ICANN rejects Bulgaria proposed .bg TLD

Original author: Asen Georgiev
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ICANN rejected Bulgaria’s candidacy for the Cyrillic domain .bg, said Deputy Minister of Communications, Transport and Information Technology Parvan Rusinov ( Parvan Rusinov ). The reason for the refusal was the similarity of this suffix with the existing Brazilian TLD “.br”.

Doubts about the approval of the domain for precisely this reason were even before the formal refusal.

What will happen now? An opinion poll will be conducted as soon as possible regarding possible alternative proposals. A previous survey of this kind showed that the second combination in popularity after ".bg" is the combination of ".bgr."

One way or another, ICANN’s refusal will delay the introduction of an alternative domain into 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.rf.

Meanwhile, 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 Technology is preparing a new proposal, and begins to hear opinions that an additional TLD will only bring chaos to the Internet and force companies to register their names under other domains.

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