Bulgaria Tables Request to Register Internet Domain in Cyrillic

Society | June 23, 2008, Monday // 00:00
Bulgaria Tables Request to Register Internet Domain in Cyrillic: Bulgaria Tables Request to Register Internet Domain in Cyrillic Bulgaria became Monday the first nation to officially request the registration of an Internet domain in Cyrillic. Photo by energygraphic.com

Bulgaria became Monday the first nation to request the registration of an Internet domain in Cyrillic.

Bulgaria's representative at the Governmental Advisory Committee of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has delivered a letter on behalf of the Chair of the State Agency for Information Technologies and Communications Plamen Vachkov to the ICANN President Paul Towmey in Paris requesting the right to register a domain in Cyrillic.

In submitting their letter, the Bulgarian authorities took advantage of the fact that the delegates at the ICANN Conference currently taking place in Paris are expected to make a decision for the setting up of multi-lingual first level domains.

ICANN manages the domains .com, .net, .info, and .org among others. Bulgaria is requesting to register and maintain domain .Р±Рі, which is likely the country's present code .bg but in Cyrillic.

The move is actively supported by the Bulgarian Uninet Association, which is working to promote the use of the Cyrillic alphabet on the net.

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