Bulgaria – Global by Design

Bulgaria (at long last) gets it own internationalized domain name (IDN)

October 27, 2014 by John Yunker

Five years ago, Bulgaria applied for an IDN but was denied by ICANN on the basis of “string similarity” with the country code of Brazil. Here is the Bulgarian IDN side by side with Brazil’s ccTLD: бг br. String similarity is a …

IDN update: Korea and India join the party

September 27, 2010 by John Yunker

To date, there have been 33 internationalized domain name (IDN) requests across 22 languages. Most recently, India and Korea passed the string evaluation stage with their IDNs. I’ve updated my IDN page to include these new domains. India is particularly fascinating. …