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Bulgaria requests domain in Cyrillic alphabet

Tue, Jun 24 2008 12:26 CET byElena Koinova 498 Views

In what is the first request of this kind within the European Union, Bulgaria requested a domain name in Cyrillic, Bulgaria's State Agency for Information Technology and Communication (SAITC) said in a statement on June 23.

In particular, Bulgaria wants to register and maintain a country code in Cyrillic, ending in ".бг".

The news comes a year after the agency forecast that Cyrillic would be put to Internet use by 2010 following a Bulgarian-Korean project, which set out a year ago.

The letter, carrying the signature of SAITC head Plamen Vachkov, was handed in to the president of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), Paul Twomey.

A decision to this effect is expected on June 26, when ICANN officials will be considering at a Paris-hosted conference the creation of first-level multilingual domains.

In related news, this autumn SAITC will invite to Sofia all countries using the Cyrillic alphabet, namely Belarus, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Mongolia, Russia, Serbia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Ukraine. Participants are expected to consider internet names allocation across countries using the Cyrillic alphabet.

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