Rant! I just lost a domain registering race :(

[mambo]

Baaah now im Monday morning grumpy, i just lost the race for taxi.no

Checked his whois, atleast he is in the taxi buisness so i guess its an honourable loss.


But what a shame, my registrar is to slow, maybee ill start my own

And another funny thing, lol, it dropped on saturday, and on sunday the NORID registry is closed lol, so i bet there were loads of applications for it anyways. :sigh2:

 

[Creature]

I guess it is good for the .no registry to match domains with end users. Not implying anything.

 

[mambo]

well, in Norway people tend to strech the rules when it commes to .no registration.

I would develop a legit service for it, while he will stick it on sedo, just a co-insidence that he was checking the taxi.no domain.

In norway we can see all the domain names an entity has registered on his company, and from his whois i can see he has domains all over the place, so he is no better than me

But, it would be funny if NORID would pick seemingly more appropriate new owners wouldnt it. Right now i think its decided by the timestamp on the verification fax.

Kind regards,

Chris

 

[typist]

well, in Norway people tend to strech the rules when it commes to .no registration.

in what way, if I may ask? I own a couple of .no domain myself.

cheers,
Mathias

 

[mambo]

Well, when NORID started, they tried to bring in a couple of rules to avoid the madness that happened to .com/.net/.org

From the rules of NORID: (http://www.norid.no/regelverk/index.en.html)

To register and hold a domain name under .no you need to:

- have a local presence in Norway
- be an organization, currently this is defined as certain organization types registered in the Brønnøysund Register Centre
- each domain name holder may have up to 20 domain names directly under .no. In addition one may register domain names under geographical or generic subdomains. (Read that: http://www.norid.no/regelverk/rammer/regelverksmodeller.en.html)

We had a brilliant case of an domainer selling googles at google.no for some years, when Google came along he had really no chance, and this guy put up a real fight.

But from my view, the .no enviroment is free-for-all, unless you one day register that domain name witch someone will fight for, and domainers in Norway wont win in trials i think.

For instance, taxi.no is a pretty generic term, but if Norways Taxi Association were to go for the name, they might just win over a domainer (by an act we of "truthfull ownership"). Thoose are my thoughts though, i have no experience in trials.


Edit:

I havent answered you question have i, lol sorry:

- People abuse the system really easely, because, the policy says you need to own a company yourself, and be located in norway to host domains, that effectivly means that if you company name is ABC-Vehicle Repairs, you really shouldnt register sex.no or wwwvg.no ...
That is bending the rules in my mind..

Kind regards,

Chris

 

[typist]

thank you for the detailed answer!

I actually have some experience with NORID disputes...

The "google" domain guy may not have been so brilliant after all, or at least he was dyslexic: what he claimed he was selling should have been spelled "goggle" (not "google").

As for the 20 domains rule - there's always Karl-Oskar Fosshaug, who had registered 90 (!) non-profit organisations last time someone bothered to count, just to be able to register the allotted 20 domains per foundation ( 20 x 90 = 1800 ...) http://itpro.no/art/8935.html

vennlig hilsen fra Hanoi,
Mathias

 

[mambo]

Wow thanks for your experience, some good reading there.

Tipper det ikke er minus grader i Hanoi ennå?

Mvh

Christian

 

[typist]

Nei, det er såvidt det kommer sne ca hvert tiende år lengst nord i Vietnam, på grensen til Kina. I natt er det meldt 9 grader i Hanoi - kaldere enn det blir det sjelden. Da går folk i boblejakke og med luer og votter - og det føles tross alt kaldt sammenliknet med sommervarmen her..

 

[mambo]

http://www.norid.no/domenekonflikter/klagearkiv/wideroe.html , leste igjennom saken nå, hmm, det der endte nok ikke som jeg hadde trudd, at panelet aviser på det "sterkeste" er jo morsomt lesestoff.

Anyways, i have a feeling there is a rule about talking only English here, so merry christmas, and please ship some good cooking to your Norwegian Vikings Friends