[EURO-Discuss] FW: [At-Large] Bulgaria moves to register Cyrillic Internet domain

Annette Muehlberg Annette.Muehlberg at web.de
Tue Jun 24 10:23:03 EDT 2008


hi dessi,
this is really good news. let us see what we can learn from this for the whole european region.
best greetings
annette 

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Dessi Pefeva <dpefeva at isoc.bg>
> Gesendet: 24.06.08 13:22:20
> An: At-Large Worldwide <alac at atlarge-lists.icann.org>
> Betreff: [At-Large] Bulgaria moves to register Cyrillic Internet domain

> I am happy to announce that the Bulgarian government has shown 
> officially its intent to register the .?? (.bg in Cyrillic) domain. They 
> did it in a letter, sent yesterday to ICANN's President Paul Twomey.
> 
> This is due also thanks to the efforts of ISOC-Bulgaria. Bulgarian 
> President, Prime Minister, Foreign Minister, and the Minister of ITC are 
> all members of ISOC. They have talked on a number of times in the past 
> six months with ISOC.bg on these issues.
> 
> Obviously the conversations have been fruitful. See more information 
> here: http://uk.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUKL2360195920080623
> 
> And this is the official press-release from the ITC Agency:
> 
> Bulgaria has requested the registration of a Cyrillic top level domain 
> (TLD) from _ICANN_ <http://www.icann.org/>. The letter from the chairman 
> of the Bulgarian State Agency for Information Technologies and 
> Communicatoins (_SAITC_ <http://www.daits.government.bg/>) Plamen 
> Vatchkov to the president of ICANN Paul Twomey was delivered today, June 
> 23^rd , 2008, in Paris via the Bulgarian representative to the 
> Governmental Advisory Committee of ICANN, and was distributed for 
> information only in Geneva where the ITU is headquartered. Thus Bulgaria 
> requested the fast track for implementation of its own Cyrillic IDNs.
> 
> In the letter to the ICANN President, the SAITC chairman informs the 
> authoritative international organization, dealing with assigned names 
> and numbers, that Bulgaria has decided to register and maintain the 
> country code .?? (bg in Cyrillic)
> 
> Further in the letter, SAITC chairman informs that the discussion on 
> using Cyrillic domain names was initiated by the President of Bulgaria 
> Georgi Parvanov during the visit of the Russian President Putin and the 
> then vice-prime minister, and now President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev 
> during their visit in January 2008 in Sofia. The question was also 
> discussed during meetings of Bulgarian Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev 
> with the Russian counterparts, as well as during talks between foreign 
> ministers Ivailo Kalfin and Sergei Lavrov. Last week, Russian President 
> Medvedev announced in Moscow, that the issue of Cyrillic domain names is 
> an important one, and on his political agenda.
> 
> "We believe that the initiative, which we discussed with our Russian 
> friends in the last months, is a clear fact about the importance which 
> Bulgaria has in the world Internet. It is an example not only about the 
> historical meaning of the Cyrillic alphabet in the world arena, but also 
> about the fact that through Bulgaria it became an official alphabet of 
> the European Union. By sending this letter to Dr. Twomey -- ICANN's 
> president and my friend, SAITC expresses not only the wish, but the 
> readiness to put the Cyrillic IDNs on the Internet map", says Plamen 
> Vatchkov. "There's nothing more natural than the proposed domain to be 
> the country code, which is already known and accepted in the country 
> itself. Creating domains in scripts, different from the Latin, is the 
> next big step in the development of the Internet, which will allow 
> millions of people who don't use English to have easier access to the 
> Global Net resources".
> 
> SAITC is organizing a meeting later this year in Sofia, where all 
> countries, using Cyrillic will be invited - Belarus, Bulgaria, 
> Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Mongolia, Russia, Serbia, Tajikistan, 
> Uzbekistan and Ukraine. The meeting will be dedicated to discussion 
> about IDNs.
> 
> for more information:
> Press Center
> phone +359-2-9492368
> "Ekaterina Popova" <epopova at daits.government.bg 
> <mailto:epopova at daits.government.bg>>
> 
> 
> 
> /Ms. Dessi Pefeva,
> Internet Society - Bulgaria/
> 
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