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Subject: RE: UKNM: Re: UKNM Digest V1 #363
From: Bunder, Leslie
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 18:55:50 GMT


Indeed there is also the .fm selling them to radio statiions and .am and
also the .tv one has gone very quiet. About a year ago there were going to
offer them for $5,000 a domain so you could have london.tv or sky.tv or
whatever. Think the main site is at www.internet.tv and there's a holding
page with some out of date blurb saying it is postponed.

When I was at Teletext, I got a phonecall from one of the so-called .tv
agents saying to pre-reserve teletex.tv for about $1,000 otherwise, it would
go to the highest bidder! The big boss bods at Teletext thought it was a
bit of a ransom

Anyone else get approached by .tv folks????

Leslie

> ----------
> From: rukhsanaatolivemedia [dot] co [dot] uk[SMTP:rukhsanaatolivemedia [dot] co [dot] uk]
> Sent: 20 January 2000 09:47
> To: uk-netmarketingatmail [dot] chinwag [dot] com
> Subject: UKNM: Re: UKNM Digest V1 #363
>
> Anyone hear about this piece of news? Forget buying domain names for a
> little (stale) profit :
>
> The former Soviet republic of Moldova has made
>
> $200,000 out of thousands of doctors in the US ...
>
> ...the suffixes of website addresses often denote whether the
>
> address refers to a company or organisation, and
>
> often tell users in what country the website is based.
>
> John Harris, president of the Florida-based
> Domain Name Trust, noticed a while ago that
> ".md" - the suffix denoting Moldova - might be
> desirable to medical doctors in the US.
>
> But he says the talks, conducted with Moldova's
> Republican Centre for Informatics, an arm of the
> transportation and communications ministry, were
> difficult to start. "MD didn't mean anything to
> them. They could not understand why anyone would
> want to pay to register a name with them."
>
> Try telling that to the Washington DC specialist
> who has registered www.gallbladder.md. Or the
> colon inflammation expert with www.colitis.md.
>
> However, some 18 months later, there are 8,000
> names, paying $299 a year each, and over 2,000
> of those have been turned into web sites.
> Moldova's Republican Centre for Informatics
> charges $20 annually for the use of each name,
> as part of a 25-year contract it signed with Mr
> Harris's company....
>
> Full story at http://www.ft.com/nbearchive/email-neteq328faa.htm
>
> so.............what do you think?
>
> Rukhsana
>
> http://www.olivemedia.co.uk
> http://www.oilzine.com


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