(In reply to Veni's post in this thread) Veni, I don't agree with you. Here is why: "lots of criticism by the well known experts" - that is, 2 or 3 persons in their blogs (most against the IDNs in principle), while many others approved or were neutral. "They do not provide a good service right now" - should be "their TLDs are not supported by the ICANN root servers, so not everybody has resolving for them". That is what we are applying for, eventually. "(the Bulgarian .info domain) contains the same characters as in Russian, Mongolian, Macedonian, Serbian etc.". Like the English .info domain contains the same characters as in any other language that uses Latin alphabet. Also, 3 out of its 4 letters are depicted differently than in any other alphabet I am aware of - so, the ".py" against ".ру" problem is impossible. About the arguments of Daniel: "Even if some of the restrictions in place are not popular, they in fact reflect the reality in Bulgaria and the constraints by existing laws and common practices." - No laws or common practice in BG require these restrictions; Veni has pointed this many times, and assembled protests because of it. The price of a .bg domain is $52, and it takes 1 to 3 months and lots of paperwork to get one (.com/.net/.org is $7 in BG, and takes 10 seconds to get one). (http://www.bol.bg/protest/protest_e.htm), (http://bg.linux-bg.org) "The quoted numbers are however wrong, with BG registrations underestimaed and non-BG registrations exagerated." - We stand by our numbers. (http://georgi.unixsol.org/bg/) "Register.BG is well prepared to implement Bulgarian IDN TLD, both technically and in with proper policy to encourage mass deployment." - We have already proven our ability and preparation. Sincerely, Grigor Gatchev Uninet vice-chairman