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.
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3,072 TOTAL
regards
joe
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Joe Baptista
http://www.dot.god/
dot.GOD Hostmaster
