Bulgaria has entered an official application today to ICANN for the IDN extension .бг (.bg). ICANN had raised the issue of IDN extensions at their recent Paris Conference, with a view to introducing a “limited number of non-contentious IDN ccTLDs, while an overall long-term IDN ccTLD policy is being developed” (DomainNews). A representative of Bulgaria’s Continue reading →
Presidential Support for New Russian IDN
June 16, 2008 By 3 Comments
Dmitry Medvedev, President of the Russian Federation has thrown his weight behind the campaign for a new Cyrillic IDN for the country. The Moscow Times reports that this is part of a new drive to promote Russian as a global language. He said 300 million people worldwide used Russian media and that a Cyrillic domain Continue reading →
Russian Registry Seeks Support For IDN .RF Domain
May 28, 2008 By 1 Comment
The Russian Registry is today asking it’s customer base to vote on the possibility of a new .РФ (.RF) IDN domain name. As they write, ICANN is looking at the possibility of establishing top-level domains using international characters. The final decision on this matter will be taken at the 32nd International Public ICANN Meeting held Continue reading →
