Google has also failed to buy their Soviet domain name: http://google.su/ And they even forgot about http://google.xn--vermgensberatung-pwb/
for the longest time, i thought .su meant sudan.
Argentine version of Google falls into “wrong” hands
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#82It's not quite google.ar, but I'm still trying to figure out what to do with https://gnu.gl/
If GNU Project ever wanted to run a free Google alternative, GNUgl at gnu.gl would be a great fit.
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#83I once bought .org.it after some newspapaer misspelled our .it domain name as .org.it (which is a non-existant TLD) and I tried to regain the exposure.
They didn’t let me through though… :(
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#85Meanwhile, I can't even figure out how to buy domains with my name in them from people who just buy them and sit on them.
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#86Meanwhile, I can't even figure out how to buy domains with my name in them from people who just buy them and sit on them.
The internet's implementation of name resolving is wrong.
If you type "apple.com" you should get a disambiguation page saying "Did you mean the grocery store, the record company, or the computer company?" and from there you can reach the desired website. Somewhat like how it works in Wikipedia.
Unlike land, names are not a scarcity and can be shared. So why pretend they are like land?
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#87> >According to the Open Data Córdoba group (which is dedicated to tracking expired Argentine domains) Google's domain had not expired and, in fact, the expiration date was in July. But the group too was unable to explain what had happened or why. Ouch. I think someone's going to have some explaining to do in the post-mortem.
Yeah, MarkMonitor is not going to have a good time on this one (they're the company Google, and a bunch of other high-profile companies) use for domain management and tracking. They're supposed to prevent this kind of thing from happening.
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#88Meanwhile, I can't even figure out how to buy domains with my name in them from people who just buy them and sit on them.
The internet's implementation of name resolving is wrong. If you type "apple.com" you should get a disambiguation page saying "Did you mean the grocery store, the record company, or the computer company?" and from there you can reach the desired website. Somewhat like how it works in Wikipedia. Unlike land, names are not a scarcity and can be shared. So why pretend they are like land?
Land can be shared just like names, and the reality is there's only so many disambiguations one can learn. Even with that ability, consumers are only going to remember one apple.com.
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#89I recently sold cryptocomicbook.com and decided to list some additional domains for sale, at the exact time I listed them a handful of ua.(TLDs) got listed for sale including ua.com and whoever listed them must have done it in bulk and given them all the same price ($76). So I bought the ua.com for $76, at that point the seller must have realized what happened and immediately changed the sales price of all the other…
They reversed it because it was an honest mistake and most people like to know that if they make the same mistake it can be undone.
It may be worth noting that in most countries a contract essentially is established by the consensus of wills by the parties involved. An error in objecto ("I didn't mean the thing I accidentally said or listed") is a legitimate excuse and nullifies a contract. (The consensus didn't exist and thus the contract had never been established in the first place).
(This is also a reason why marketplaces, where things "just happen", are, let's say, complicated, as they do not adhere to this legal tradition.)
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#90Once I told my friend ja.red was available for $9, and after he bought it they told him it was a mistake and reversed the transaction.