At 9/26/03 8:37 PM, Christoph Puetz wrote: >Registering .de domains is a horrible thing. I sold 6 to one client >and then stopped selling them.
We've stopped selling all TLDs except the five GTLDs, .us, and .uk. And the only TLDs we will consider adding in the future are new GTLDs that work like existing GTLDs (i.e., standard pricing, one-year registrations available, no nexus requirements, no need to ever deal directly with the registry like CIRA, etc.). The silly restrictions on .de and .ca, and the excessive prices of .tv and .cc, make them far more trouble than they're worth for the small volume of sales they generate. (More than half the .tv and .cc domains we ever sold were fraudulent; the only people willing to pay those prices turned out to be criminals who didn't care because they were using a stolen credit card.) If any of these registries intend to be global, they need to adopt GTLD policies and pricing. Perhaps some don't want to be global, which is fine. But in that case, there's no reason why anyone should be selling them in other countries. -- Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies
