Why are there .pw domains in the Pool Marketplace?

[worldengine]

The Pool Marketplace has about 1,000 .pw domain names listed. They are all first names.

I thought the .pw Registry had reserved all second level domain names so people could use them as email addresses?

 

[darrenl]

What country does .pw stand for?

 

[.biz]

.pw = Palau

for full list, see the link below

http://www.norid.no/domenenavnbaser/domreg.html

 

[guiwang]

The PW Registry Corporation, administrators of the .pw extension, is marketing the globally available TLD (Palau's country code) as one that has been designed to protect individual privacy. They claim that .pw email addresses are virtually spam-free due to registry level controls and to prove that they are offering free 30-day trial accounts until the end of October. All second-level .pw domains (for example, smith.pw) are reserved by the registry so multiple users can share the same name. To sign up for the free trial just enter any name or word you want in your browser as a web address (for example www.smith.pw or www.travel.pw). That will take you to a page that will allow you to confirm availability of the email address you want and sign up for it. If you want more information on .pw domains visit their web site at www.pwregistry.pw...

Quote from http://www.dnjournal.com/lowdown.htm.

Bean