.бг

бг
.БГ
TLD type internationalized country code top-level domain
Status Proposed
Intended use Entities connected with Bulgaria
Actual use Not yet introduced
Registration restrictions Intended for Cyrillic domain names only;[1] no firm policy yet defined.
DNS name xn--90ae

The domain name бг (abbreviation of Bulgarian: България, Bălgarija) is a proposed internationalized country code top-level domain (IDN ccTLD) for Bulgaria.[1][2] The ASCII DNS name of the domain would be xn--90ae, according to rules of the Internationalizing Domain Names in Applications procedures.

It has previously been rejected by ICANN twice, due to its visual similarity to .br, but in 2014 an ICANN panel determined that .бг is not confusingly similar to ISO 3166-1 country codes. The panel compared the two Cyrillic characters in several fonts to the Latin br, bt, bs, BT and BF.[3]

History

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References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Bulgaria moves to register Cyrillic Internet domain, Reuters, 23 June 2008; accessed 24 September 2008.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Bulgaria moves to register Cyrillic Internet domain, email from Dessi Pefeva to ICANN's At-Large mailing list, 24 June 2008; accessed 24 September 2008.
  3. Extended Process Similarity Review Panel. Report for Corresponding ISO3166 Entry: BG. icann.org. Retrieved 2014-11-27.
  4. Bulgaria's Cyrillic Internet Domain Name Request was Turned Down, Bulgarian Ministry of Transport, Information Technology and Communication, 19 May 2010; accessed 19 May 2010.
  5. (Bulgarian) Министър Цветков иска контрол върху информационните сайтове, DarikNews.bg, 26 June 2010; accessed 14 July 2010.
  6. Bulgaria to Make Another Push for 'бг' Cyrillic Web Domain, Novinite.com, 14 January 2011; accessed 18 January 2011.
  7. ICANN Snubs Bulgaria's Cyrillic Internet Domain Name Again
  8. MEP SLAMS BULGARIAN GOVT FOR FALLING BEHIND WITH CYRILLIC INTERNET DOMAINS
  9. Veni Markovski (14 October 2014). "Relations Between Bulgaria and ICANN Mark Major Milestones - ICANN". icann.org. Retrieved 2014-11-27.