First Cyrillic address Using a .бг domain goes live in Bulgaria

After nearly two years  ICANN has approved Bulgaria‘s national domain. Initially there was some uncertainty over whether the request would be granted as .бг bears some visual similarities to Brazil‘s already registered “.br”. Имена.бг (“names”) is the first Bulgarian web address available entirely in Cyrillic. The Ministry of Transport, Information Technology and Communications has said …

ICANN begins new gtld suffixes roll out with Chinese, Cyrillic and Arabian script

The first-ever non-Latin language website address domains are on their way, the Internet’s overlords said Wednesday. Online domains in which website addresses would end with words in Chinese, Russian, or Cyrillic have been approved according to the US-based Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). “It’s happening – the biggest change to the Internet …