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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
Back in 2006 the The Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) expressed some concern around the .ug ccTLD. Now there seems to be a change of heart. In an interview, Patrick Mwesigwa, UCC’s technical manager said “There is no immediate intention of claiming that domain name”.
It’s been reported that entrepreneur Charles Musisi has managed Uganda domain names for the past 12 years. He got it from IANA back in 1995.
Apparently there are 4,000 .ug domain names in a country where 50,000 people use the Internet.
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
Today, ICANN is going to vote on allowing domain names with non Latin characters. For example, Chinese, Arabic and Cyrillic.
If this proposal goes ahead, its going to be very difficult to distinguish between domains in Latin characters and others such as Cyrillic. What does this mean? It’s going to:
a) increase phishing as organized crime is going to catch on that they can register ebay.com or bank.com using Cyrillic characters. Best of all, those domain names will not be registered because the character sets are different.
b) increase the number of dodgy, misleading domain names that are for sale on auction sites. We all know the good old trick of using an 0 (zero) as opposed to an O (oh). Introducing non Latin characters makes it all that more difficult. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not against it entirely - I just think its going to introduce problems - many of which haven’t been thought about or widely discussed.
Will there be another mini landrush to grab all those trademarks using Cyrillic? Who knows. It also presents a problem when you show Cryillic in italics and non italics:
We will see what ICANN comes up with later today.
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Tags: characters, domain name, domain name auctions, icann, phishing dangers, proposal, security
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
A few weeks ago I was having a conversation with a group of domainers, when someone asked the group if anyone owned a “dictionary word” domain. Everyone looked at each other and paused. I kind of got the feeling that nobody wanted to say anything. So, I did - yes of course! But then someone else jumped in and started complaining about how people like me grabbed them all up in the “good old days” and that there were “no good domains left”. Of course, I disagreed and gave some examples of domains that I purchased that very week.
Unfortunately, there are those amongst us that can’t complain enough about parking revenue, backordering fees, adsense blah, blah, blah - and I’m tired of it! I don’t want to be around negative people, however I do want to set the record straight.
Here are a few dictionary words that will expire over the next few days:
April 23
altimeters.org
backboards.org
broodmares.com
defectives.org
ferrous.org
hairdrier.org
humanization.org
hymnbooks.org
lariats.org
paratroops.org
pooed.net
premolar.net
setsquare.org
starfruit.org
tensile.org
terrycloth.org
vaquero.org
zealotry.net
April 24
contortion.net
defecated.com
enthral.net
half-baked.net
meriting.com
militarise.com
motorboated.com
peasantry.net
reedit.net
spinally.com
April 25
deactivation.net
gipsies.net
goldfinches.net
moires.com
overmodest.com
prelates.net
presided.net
rebuttals.net
starchier.com
thrushes.net
tromps.com
trustfully.net
turtledoves.net
two-faced.net
April 26
mullein.net
no-no.net
perambulator.net
recommissions.com
tieback.net
titivate.net
Don’t get me wrong - I’m not saying that you will make a million dollars out of these names, but dictionary words are still around and yes, you can backorder them! Best of luck in the auction.
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
The domaining industry is still in its infancy. With that, comes a variety of issues that impact upon private domainers, domaining companies and those that feed from the industry. Some of the issues that come to mind include:
- Lack of understanding of the industry amongst the media and the general public.
- Introduction of legislation by governments.
- Trademark and copyright issues.
- Lack of active industry associations.
- A few bad eggs….
Over the next few weeks I’ll be discussing these issues at length and what we can do as individuals and as a group, to combat these threats.
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