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Subject: Re: [AN1x-list] Re: Where is everyone from?

From: "Peter Korsten" <peterk@...>
Date: 2000-07-29

From: <tomfinegan@...>


> --- In AN1x-list@egroups.com, "Peter Korsten" <peterk@i...> wrote:
> >
> > Perhaps we should all try to get an '.an' domain. It's probably
> Andorra or
> > Antigua, or some rock in the sea with more than twelve birds on it:
> I think
> > that is the criterium to be eligible for a seperate top level
> domain. :)
>
> LOL...yup, true. Have you heard the story about this little island
> called "Tuvla" or something like this? They sold their top-level
> domain ".TV" for a few hundreds of million dollars...and the island
> has only one or two thousand citizens...you can bet, they have a
> comfi life now...hehe

Mark my words: domains will lose much, ∗very∗ much of their value in a few
years time.

Anyway, the '.an' domain is for the Netherlands Antilles, a group of islands
in the Caribean. If you'd want such a domain, here you can find whom to
contact:

http://www.ripe.net/ripencc/mem-services/general/indices/AN.html

Have fun. :)

- Peter