Bulgaria to apply for two IDNs

Bulgaria has announced that it will likely apply for two IDNs with ICANN: .бг and .бгр. The move to apply for two extensions instead of one is the result of an online poll commissioned by the country’s Transport Ministry.

Both IDNs received around a third of the votes, though .бг came out on top. However, Bulgaria is concerned .бг could be rejected by ICANN because of its similarity to Brazil’s .br domain, so it is also applying for .бгp just in case.

Bulgaria is not a newcomer to IDN technology. It was one of the first countries to allow Cyrillic registrations on the .bg domain.

Source | The Sofia Echo