Tag Archives: bulgaria

June, 2010

• 28 June

  Bulgaria to appeal ICANN IDN rejection

  Bulgaria’s IT minister has announced plans to appeal the rejection of the .бг IDN, which ICANN refused to allow into the DNS in May because of its similarity to the .br ccTLD. The minister stated in a TV interview that he believes .бг is the best name for Bulgaria and …

January, 2010

• 11 January

  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 …

September, 2009

• 8 September

  Bulgaria's .bg domain now available in Cyrillic

  Well ahead of ICANN’s planned implementation of IDNs, Bulgaria’s official domain registry, Register.bg, has announced the availability of .bg domains in Cyrillic. This makes the Balkan country one of the first to support a non-Latin alphabet. There are some caveats, however. Most notably, only one Cyrillic character can be used …