Afghanistan Launches Domain Extension

[morel]

Afghanistan to launch .af extension:
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,57978,00.html

 

[timechange.com]

"The .af domain was first registered with the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority in October 1997 by a private Afghan citizen named Abdul Razeeq, according to Aimal Marjan, an adviser to the minister of communications. According the IANA website, however, Razeeq later disappeared and some services were halted to the .af domain. "

I wonder where he disappeared to!

 

[Chad]

How about bomb.osama or blast.osamasazz

 

[morel]

Originally posted by timechange.com
"The .af domain was first registered with the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority in October 1997 by a private Afghan citizen named Abdul Razeeq, according to Aimal Marjan, an adviser to the minister of communications. According the IANA website, however, Razeeq later disappeared and some services were halted to the .af domain. "

I wonder where he disappeared to!

Here's a more informative article, with details about Mr Razeeq:
http://sg.biz.yahoo.com/030310/72/38qkb.html

 

[devolution]

.af ='have' - possibly a market for yet another snappy TLD?

We.af
You.af
They.af
We.af/Osama/andwe/want/fivebillion/dollars

 

[boychik]

Anybody want to go for aol.af?

 

[DotDuDe]

Originally posted by boychik
Anybody want to go for aol.af?

hahaha.. don't you think it's already registered?

 

[WebMomentum]

Maybe I'm the only one ... but really, who cares about .af?

 

[dtobias]

People in Afghanistan, maybe... at least, the (probably tiny) portion of them who actually use the Internet...

 

[devolution]

They did actually used to have Internet Cafes in Afghanistan, until the Talibandits outlawed the Internet in early 2001.

 

[CoolHost.com]

CoolHost.af .... na, I'll pass! Thank you.

 

[wwww]

gotta ask the un if they could donate freshapples.af and wwww.af to a poor hardsurfing student