Re: <meta>Re-re-registering old IP.

[Richard]

Finally I can add something to this group that has helped me by sharing

their abundant knowledge on Flash!

OK. here is dah facts.

InterNic which up until recently has had the monopoly on registering domains

is now relinquishing that right to 88 companies worldwide. Please visit

http://www.gtld-mou.org for exact info and to search the addresses for each

company that is involved in the registration process. A process that will be

back on track in less than 2 weeks.

(from their site: The Council of Registrars (CORE) will have a plenary

meeting May 14-15, 1998 in Newport Beach, California. The Chair of the

Policy Advisory Body (PAB) counters the US Federal Trade Commission's

submission to the USG Green Paper. )

Yes, folks time to hustle to get those few names that are left.

The new domains will be .shop .web .arts .info .rec .firm .nom  (xxx for

adult sites will be issued next year no prereging those I've tried)

Yes, worldwide. These companies have been selected by a bidding process that

was conducted last year.  Here is one site that is taking preregistrations (

I have already prereged with several companies new domains.

But get this...there was a contentious problem among the European an Asian

countries who complained about the US having control over the issuance of

the domains. Therefore, and you will NOT find this written anywhere, there

will be an attempt to allow registration companies from those countries a

few minutes extra in the first round robin for submissions. Yes, all 88

companies are supposed to be polled at the exact time for there 1st level of

entries. The exact number of entries allowed to each registrant, say the

tucows bis, domains direct (yes Tucows in canada is in on this too but most

of their names like multimedia.web have been taken)  so in effect each

entrant company can register multimedia.web, but only once. Some businesses

like my self have registered the same name ("****.web for instance) with

several entrants including 1 in Europe and 1 in asia to make sure that I

have a fighting chance of getting that name. Also, registering that ****.web

as an International trademark (cost $2,000.00) because, even though you can

register a name, if another holds the tradename...you're out of luck! Be

aware the consortium will hold preference of a trade name over one that is

registered with a registering company. So if a company in say France

registers multimedia.web and then Macromedia wants to register that

name...well MM may have to pay off that French company if they want to do

business in the EU. Same holds true for Asia. trust me, the only ones whop

will benefit from this will be Trademark lawyers like Thompson and Thompson

its a nightmare.

But, if you want to be serious about getting a name this is the path you

must take.

Why get a name?

I've been on the Net since 1988..when it was UNIX based and all you could

talk about was non commercial in nature. I finally picked up thepoet.com

after stagnating for years. But others who saw the possibilities were smart.

One fellow got televeision.com and then sold it to a News TV station in

Calif. for 50G.

The guy who registered dicaprio.com (check spelling) is now sitting on a

domain that some have bided $78G for. If you have a 9-12 year old daughter

who is smitten by the movie Titanic you would know why.

So I hope I have added some useful info for all the help you guys have

afforded me in the past and hopefully in the future (I still do not

understand the process of animating a symbol as  a movie clip or adding

those frames to a single button state)


Dave Smith wrote:


> This is off the topic,

> but NIC takes 2 weeks to reply to one question.

>

> If I have my domain name registered with NIC and

> have to change my IP, does anyone know how easy it is and how much NIC

> charges

> to do that?

>

> I placed all my work on a unreliable IP and am looking for

> another(fast).

> Anyone willing to swap a few megs on their server for a professionally

> designed Flash banner.

>

> If you wanna see me work, lemme know. Ill send you .swf directly.

>

> -DG-

>

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