Open Letter to all Internet Users in Bulgaria
Vedrin Jeliazkov
Open Letter to all Internet Users in Bulgaria
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Digital Systems Slavov & Co - Varna, which due to historic reasons is
the Top Level Domain Administrator (TLDA) in the .bg domain, with no
prior warning has introduced post factum from January 1st, 1998, tax
for registration of new domains in .bg, and an annual fee for
maintaining them in the Internet. We are talking about names like
president.bg, web.bg, pari.bg, acad.bg, isoc.bg, digsys.bg and all the
rest, which are being published daily in tens of mass media across the
country and worldwide.
The names in the .bg domain are national symbol. They also form the area
of the Bulgarian informational resources in the Internet and can not be
used as commercial object from one or another private or state-owned
company without the possibility of public control.
We, the undersigned Internet users with registered domain names in .bg
categorically PROTEST against this monopolist attitude!
We are warning all the Internet users that by this fact, Digital Systems
are forcing us to register the names not in the .bg domain, but in .com,
.net, etc., thus losing our national identity. This will bring loses and
missed chances for all the Internet users in Bulgaria.
Misusing their monopolist situation, Digital Systems enforce a tax,
which not only is too high, but is also not in accordance with the
Protecting the Competition Law and the good habits. In return for these
high taxes, Digital Systems doesn't offer a contract, neither take
responsibilities or obligations.
We propose:
1.The taxes should be paid to a non for profit organization, which
will later on pay the Internet domain name registry the expense for the
domain names maintenance, and this money should not be used for
competition by any of the ISPs.
2.To work out rules for the TLDA behavior, where all the requirements
for the position should be stated so that we'll never have one-sided
acts, against the interests of all the users of names in the .bg domain
area.
Until we reach an agreement we insist Digital Systems:
o should not maliciously use their rights,
o stop collecting money for new applications for domain names,
o pay back the collected so far money, and
o should listen to the reasonable proposals of the undersigned.
We plead all the users of domain names in the .bg area not to pay the
illegally requested tax until the case is cleared!
We ask for support from the appropriate government bodies to solve the
problem, which will also cause bad image of Bulgaria abroad.
This letter is sent to RIPE, IANA, the Internet Society, Commission for
protecting the competition, The National Assembly, The Council of
Ministers, the President of the Republic of Bulgaria.
Signed by:
N: Name Family name Organization mail
1. Theodore Zahov Spectrum Net in...@spnet.net
2. Ivan Zheliazkov Spectrum Net in...@spnet.net
3. Ewgeni Alexiev Process Control sh...@process.bis.bg
4. Alexander Zvezdev Spacecom al...@bis.bg
5. Ivailo Krumov Cyberlink iv...@cblink.net
6. Simeon Vlakhov Omex.bg mo...@omex.bg
7. Ivan Pashov Comm.&Inf. j...@cit.bg
Technologies
8. Nikolai Gorchilov Orbitel ngorc...@orbitel.bg
9. Viktor Francis Orbitel vfra...@orbitel.bg
10. Radoslav Velev I.Net Ra...@inet.bg
11. Radostina Mileva Bulnet
12. Boris Basmadjiev Bulnet bo...@bulnet.bg
13. Atanas Grigorov Atil
14. Lachezar Dinev Internet l...@lnd.internet-bg.bg
Bulgaria
15. Konstantin Ternianov Levski webm...@levski.bg
16. Georgi Zlatanov bgnet jo...@bgnet.bg
17. Kalin Bogatzevski bis, xax ka...@bis.bg
18. Antoan Nikolaev Bonmarine ant...@bonmar.bg
19. Christo Kostov Eurointegra in...@einet.bg
20. Ivaylo Lenkov Iris Systems i...@iris.bg
21. Veni Markovski Internet ve...@isoc.bg
Society -
Bulgaria
22. Plamen Hristov Datacom datacom.bg
23. Lyuben Yovchev Mobiltel yo...@mobiltel.bg
24. Bisser Yanov Micronic
25. Nikolai Naidenov Sd-bub.bg
26. Valentin Mokov digdes.bg
27. Lyubomir Roussev GlobalOne lyub...@gocis.bg
28. Mmochil Momchev Bulgaria Online mm...@online.bg
29. Rumen Sofkov ibn.bg
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Vedrin Jeliazkov <v...@cld03ar.der.edf.fr> (+331) 47.83.51.61
i...@nospam-2230.mail.techno-link.com
On Mon, 02 Mar 1998 12:02:30 -0800, Vedrin Jeliazkov <v...@cld03ar.der.edf.fr> wrote:
> Open Letter to all Internet Users in Bulgaria
> =============================================
S@glasen s@m s tova, koeto e napisano v pismoto.
No zashto ste go pisali na angliiski, sled kato e adresirano
do ".. internet users in Bukgaria" ?
:-((
"O, nerazumni,....." (Paisii )
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Vedrin Jeliazkov
Bqlgarskia tekst na pismoto moje da bqde nameren na stranicite
na v. Kapital:
http://www-us.capital.bg/documents/protest_bg.htm
Vedrin Jeliazkov
Vedrin Jeliazkov
Poluchih prashtulka ot g-n Adam Todd (http://adamtodd.ah.net)
ot Avstralia, v koiato toi me informira che podoben problem
sqshtestvuva ne samo v Bulgaria i predlaga svoeto sqdeistvie
na podpisalite otvorenoto pismo.
G-n Adam Todd e osnovatelia na Australian Root Server Confederation
(http://aursc.ah.net).
Poslednoto izrechenie ot prashtulkata na g-n Adam Todd e:
"I'll help you save .BG, it's too important!"