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You might open a new section on Bulgaria.

Coming back to Bulgaria, a country of some 5m+ inhabitants and now a part of EU it has good potentials.

.BG is not really exploited yet. Although, I have to admit, registering with Register.BG is real.ly a pain. They ask for 30 EUR for each renewal, quit expensive - this is main.ly why .com and .net are still popular in the country. But also they don't react to the e-mails and no telephone support.

Once I have registered four domains, the payment got stuck and I could not proceed. So these names are still for grab.

Anyone tried .bg yet? I would love to hear your experience.

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Alfredo

I checked register.bg and I saw 30 Euros.

A renewal is more expensive?

I don't have .bg domains.

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Sorry, a typo, this is indeed 30 EUR, already corrected in the post above. This is still near.ly $50 - five times more expensive than .com - no wonder all Bulgarians are into cheaper generics.

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Thomas

very atrocious to register a .bg domain. one needs to send documents, in time, by snailmail to bulgaria.

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What kind of documents?

I have sent everything scanned.

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Thomas

not possible anymore:
"3. Send the application form for domain name registration according to point 1 and the documents according to point 2 to Register.BG's mailing address or present them in any of the offices."

they only accept the originals. you also need to send them a business certificate and it needs to be stamped, so that it passes as original for them.
if you wanna have a person as owner, the form even needs to be notarized...

locals can get a digital certificate and don't need to do this, but foreigners have a little work to do

Brands-and-Jingles

Thanks a lot Thomas, this explains why the last application was rejected.

Well, I guess, it is much of a hustle, will continue with Bulgarian.coms as they spare the paperwork.

Cheers!

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Alfredo

What do you think is better IDN .com or ASCII .com in Bulgaria?
Bulgarian words with Latin characters or English words?

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Of course transliterated names, this holds for Russian and Ukrainian too. It is a bit tricky, as a letter "x" can be transliterated as "kh" (official spelling), "h", "x" and this is only one letter. Add a dozen of other Cyrillic letters, and this becomes a nightmare. For "today" in Ukrainian we had to secure some six spellings.

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