[ga] Verisign now auctioning off dot-cc names on eBay

[George Kirikos <gkirikos@yahoo.com>]

Hello,

I've not seen this mentioned before, but they're now auctioning off .cc
names. It had previously been noted that they were auctioning off .bz
names. See their store at:

http://www.ebaystores.com/id=47260199

Is this the future of dot-com?

Chuck Gomes had written at:

http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/ga/Arc10/msg02298.html

"How does a consumer find the choices?  What will the consumer have to
pay if he/she is successful?  How easy is it?"

Well, I went to http://www.nic.cc, and typed in "games" and was told
that games.cc was already taken. Hmmm. Not finding a "back order this
domain" button, I looked for the WHOIS...

http://www.nic.cc/cgi-bin/whois?domain=games.cc

Domain Name: games.cc
Creation Date: 10-12-1997
Expiration Date: 10-12-2007

Not very much detail. If I wanted to buy the name, can't really contact
the current owner....

So, let's see if there's a webpage. I went to http://www.games.cc and
just see an under construction page -- there is an email to
"registrant@games.cc", though....perhaps someone will reply....

No link to the eBay auction, nada, which is at:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2033366154

Only $25,000 opening bid! Who knows what the reserve is...

I'm glad that Verisign is out there protecting consumers from
speculators.... ;) Who are the real speculators out there, Chuck?

I think I'll keep my http://Games.org/ instead. :)

Sincerely,

George Kirikos
http://www.kirikos.com/

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