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| Introduced | 12 July 2016 |
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| TLD type | Internationalised (Cyrillic) country code top-level domain |
| Status | Active |
| Intended use | Entities connected with Bulgaria |
| Actual use | Not yet widely used in Bulgaria |
| Registration restrictions | Intended for Cyrillic domain names only;[1] no firm policy yet defined |
| DNS name | xn--90ae |
| Registry website | https://имена.бг |
.бг (abbreviation of Bulgarian: България, romanized: Bŭlgariya) is an internationalized country code top-level domain (IDN ccTLD) for Bulgaria.[1][2] The ASCII DNS name of the domain would be xn--90ae, according to rules of the Internationalizing Domain Names in Applications procedures.
It has previously been rejected by ICANN twice, due to its visual similarity to Brazil's .br, but in 2014 an ICANN panel determined that .бг is not confusingly similar to ISO 3166-1 country codes. The panel compared the two Cyrillic characters in several fonts to the Latin br, bt, bs, BT and BF.[3]
