I'd invest a lot of time into reading all documents before doing some serious project using these top domain names. We still have some problems with corruption and civil rights..
The .ly fad aside, using random, unusual TLDs is something I have a lot of problems seeing the point of. Getting a nice shorturl is fine, but you have to make damn sure that the shorturls will always work.
Yeah, Burma, but really there are lots of other. IMO the rule is quite simple - if the tld is under control of a nic in a country having problem with freedom per western standards, better not to depend on it. However bit.ly somehow manages to successfully work regardless the theoretical risk.
No, I haven't neither. I'm not saying don't register any .ly or .by or whatever domain, I'm just saying be cautious. (See my other post with "legal actions".)
Right, but even if there are corrupt government employees and you are discriminated by the government (employees), you have always the option to take legal actions.
In some countries you can't take legal actions that easy, especially against the government.
They took the money, then a couple of weeks later said it "had been denied" for some reason or other. I think they said that someone local owns a trademark on 'mib' or somesuch.
It's still unregistered and unused.
Trying to register these types of domain is more hassle than it's worth.
I did get a refund (after I requested it).
Getting a .gd domain from modone.gd was not quite as slow, but was similarly not fully automated - but their service was really good, and I always got a personal reply from their domain manager. I wouldn't dismiss all lesser used TLDs - and .gd has loads of great short names left.
I reg'd we.gd and om.gd - hope to have something interesting up on them both soon.
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[ 33.5 ms ] story [ 198 ms ] threadJust as USD is the American dollar, and AUD is the Australian dollar.
I wouldn't want to be out $2k based on reading something wrong. :)
Primary registration - 33 USD (1st year).
Renewal of registration per year - 33 USD (2nd and every following year).
source: http://domain.by/instructioneng_new.html
I'd invest a lot of time into reading all documents before doing some serious project using these top domain names. We still have some problems with corruption and civil rights..
The .ly fad aside, using random, unusual TLDs is something I have a lot of problems seeing the point of. Getting a nice shorturl is fine, but you have to make damn sure that the shorturls will always work.
[1]: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/.mm
Remember that they can switch off your domain at any moment. And by no means build your business on it.
vb.ly is a good example: http://benmetcalfe.com/blog/2010/10/the-ly-domain-space-to-b...
In some countries you can't take legal actions that easy, especially against the government.
Here's another example (coincidentally it's Belarus again): http://snarkerati.com/tv-news/belarus-big-bang-theory-rip-of...
They took the money, then a couple of weeks later said it "had been denied" for some reason or other. I think they said that someone local owns a trademark on 'mib' or somesuch.
It's still unregistered and unused.
Trying to register these types of domain is more hassle than it's worth. I did get a refund (after I requested it).
I reg'd we.gd and om.gd - hope to have something interesting up on them both soon.