Tag Bulgaria

Country Codes, IDN (Intl. Domain Name)

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

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…

John Yunker
October 27, 2014

Country Codes, IDN (Intl. Domain Name)

IDN update: Korea and India join the party

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.…

John Yunker
September 27, 2010