UKNM: Re: UKNM Digest V1 #363

[rukhsana]

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

                                 

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