international domain names

Fri Feb 24 21:34:12 PST 2006

hi ya

entertainment or info or annoyance or food for thought:

- i know this doesn't have much to do with "admin" but, 
  lets say the big-boss says go get acme.<any-tld> in each
  of the 130 - 200 TLDs .. geez ..

- where does one go to register 1 domains in each of the various
  countries .. looking for the nic for each country will give
  your dozens or hundreds of registrars with no info about them

  i found domaininfo.com  ... but they're charging 3x - 10x
  the normal fees :-) presumably for the convenience of registering
  an acct once and registering each domain from one page

  i'm using another (wrapping) registrar but they don't cover
  continents/countries adjacent to the pacific ocean

  and i've since found lots of scams too .. charging in excess of
  $1.50/$2.oo just to do a simple "whois" .. geez .. low enuff
  to be bothersome, and not cancel the credit cards, etc ...

  or taking upwards of $900 ( multiple billing on the same credit card ),
  but, at least the credit card corp calls and says "wtf" :-)

- lots more scams seem to be popping up about "corporate identity" ..
  most of whom are not registrars.  I'd bet they charge thousands
  of $$$ to say that "ibm.aq" ( antartica ) doesn't exist ..

- is putting a wrapper around the registrar's pages
  a good thing ? it's a simple and yet complicated gui challenge :-)

- i get tired of having multiple accounts at multiple registrars
  and easily forget the login and pwd 

- it's friday .. play time ...

c ya
alvin