On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, Chris Thompson wrote:
> > [.tm is administered by netnames, and appears to have very little
> > geographical significance]
>
> Using a domain in .tm is the moral equivalent of flying a Liberian flag
> on the high seas.
>
> I think you will find that as far as the IANA are concerned, the domain
> belong to the sovereign state of Turkmenistan. If there's a change of
> government there, and they decide to take the domain away from Netnames,
> then that's what will happen. Perhaps more likely, they'll milk the cash
> cow for everything it's worth by upping the registration charges by 1000%.
> [OK, OK -- this is off-topic. But Mummy, Nigel started it...]
Sorry to add to this, but it isn't much. To take the idea one step
further, you have the active marketing of some of these other domains.
Check out
http://www.nu
- Evan
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