auction closed - no bidders. can figure out what all the demand for these strings are. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 15:48:13 -0500 (EST) From: Joe Baptista <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Bill Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FYI - stats on Multiligual domain names On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Bill Wilson wrote: > Intresting. > > Could you let me know how you are data mining? I have been using whois.net, > but the data doesn't show as many bq-- names as your stats. incorporate permutations bq-$1$2$3 and use the internic. in any case - I'm publishing the list shortly. I put it up for auction in the biz-ops lists just to see if anyone wanted it and how much they would pay. Did not get any offers for it. There seems to be alot of confusion with respect to RACE - and now we have IBM and the RACE guy just publishing another standard called LACE - but both use the bq-- prefix. Both look the same. If anyone here has a good understanding of what is going on or you can give me urls to opensrs where it has discussions concerning this - i'd be interested in looking further into this. Sounds like something I would incorporate into dot.god next year and subcontract it to someone in the wild. regards joe > > Thanks, > Bill > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: !Dr. Joe Baptista <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2000 2:50 AM > Subject: FYI - stats on Multiligual domain names > > > > > > Some time ago people here expressed concerns that there were many > > preregistrations of domains starting with the BQ-- string. Yes - people > > have been registering domains. According to draft-ietf-idn-race-02.txt > > there were no domains starting with the string "BQ--" registered on or > > about August 2000. I obtained a complete list of these domains from the > > whois and can verify that indeed the "BQ--" string has recently > > experienced some popularity. > > > > To date there are 3,072 domain names which use RACE (Row-based ASCII > > Compatible Encoding) for Internationalized Domain Names. The leading > > registrar is INNERWISE with 1,796 registered domains. > > > > 14 DOMAINPEOPLE, INC. > > 161 DOTSTER, INC. > > 1 HANGANG SYSTEMS, INC. D/B/A DOREGI.COM > > 2 IHOLDINGS.COM, INC. D/B/A DOTREGISTRAR.COM > > 1,796 INNERWISE, INC. D/B/A ITSYOURDOMAIN.COM > > 158 MELBOURNE IT, LTD. D/B/A INTERNET NAMES WORLDWIDE > > 124 NETWORK SOLUTIONS, INC. > > 466 REGISTER.COM, INC. > > 18 SPEEDNAMES, INC. > > 331 TUCOWS.COM, INC. > > ===== > > 3,072 TOTAL > > > > regards > > joe > > > > -- > > Joe Baptista > > > > http://www.dot.god/ > > dot.GOD Hostmaster > > > > > -- Joe Baptista http://www.dot.god/ dot.GOD Hostmaster +1 (805) 753-8697
