Bulgaria To Try Again for Cyrillic TLD

Bulgaria is considering applying again for the .бг Cyrillic Top Level Domain Name, which has already been rejected by ICANN.

Bulgaria is considering applying again for the .бг Cyrillic Top Level Domain Name, which has already been rejected by ICANN.

While fast track application procedures have been exhausted, the country”s newly appointed Deputy Minister of Transport, Information Technologies and Communications, Valeri Borisov says the country may try for a longer application procedure Novinite, the Sofia News Agency, reported. Presumably this would be through the new generic TLD process in early 2012.

The Novinite report gives a potted history of the application process, saying that “in March 2011, ICANN technically rejected Bulgaria”s second attempt to register a domain name in Cyrillic with a “.бг” suffix, saying the country had slim chances for that. ICANN had already refused to accept Bulgaria”s proposal for a domain name in Cyrillic with a “бг” suffix in May 2010, citing the similarity with Brazil”s domain name with a “.br” suffix as the reason for the rejection.”