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Comments · 9

  1. Re:It increases costs by fmobus · · Score: 1 · on F-Secure Responds To Criticism of .bank

    Oh, additional link. It shows the number of domains registered per second level domain.

  2. Re:English, not latin languages by LoonyMike · · Score: 1 · on ICANN Under Pressure Over Non-Latin Characters

    In Brazil for instance, there are domain names with accented chars. I'm not sure if this is some sort of tweaked usage, though.
    Go to this page and search for the domain (www.)pãodeaçúcar.com.br - it works.
    If you try removing accents from only some of the letters, the query still works, so probably the browser or the DNS server converts each letter to an non-accented one before performing the query.

  3. Anatomy of an "typo milionaire" by e.colli · · Score: 1 · on The Typo Millionaires

    Last week I mistyped an domain who send me to an wierd site, then I look at brazilian registrar registro.br and found this guy:

    http://registro.br/cgi-bin/nicbr/whois?qr=006.209. 119/0001-55
    http://registro.br/cgi-bin/nicbr/whois?qr=002.799. 952/0001-42

    Mostly are to catch mistyped domains, some of her domains are typed like google is spelled in portuguese.
    GLOGUE.COM.BR
    GLOOGUE.COM.BR
    GOGOGL E.COM.BR
    GOOCLE.COM.BR
    GUGOL.COM.BR

  4. Anatomy of an "typo milionaire" by e.colli · · Score: 1 · on The Typo Millionaires

    Last week I mistyped an domain who send me to an wierd site, then I look at brazilian registrar registro.br and found this guy:

    http://registro.br/cgi-bin/nicbr/whois?qr=006.209. 119/0001-55
    http://registro.br/cgi-bin/nicbr/whois?qr=002.799. 952/0001-42

    Mostly are to catch mistyped domains, some of her domains are typed like google is spelled in portuguese.
    GLOGUE.COM.BR
    GLOOGUE.COM.BR
    GOGOGL E.COM.BR
    GOOCLE.COM.BR
    GUGOL.COM.BR

  5. Anatomy of an "typo milionaire" by e.colli · · Score: 1 · on The Typo Millionaires

    Last week I mistyped an domain who send me to an wierd site, then I look at brazilian registrar registro.br and found this guy:

    http://registro.br/cgi-bin/nicbr/whois?qr=006.209. 119/0001-55
    http://registro.br/cgi-bin/nicbr/whois?qr=002.799. 952/0001-42

    Mostly are to catch mistyped domains, some of her domains are typed like google is spelled in portuguese.
    GLOGUE.COM.BR
    GLOOGUE.COM.BR
    GOGOGL E.COM.BR
    GOOCLE.COM.BR
    GUGOL.COM.BR

  6. Re:The .es Domain by Carlos+Laviola · · Score: 2 · on Fair Domain-Dispute Arbitration Firm Quits the Business

    I believe the Brazilian system sucks even more. FAPESP, a research institute that manages our sole registry, requires you to actually prove you own a company before you can register a domain. You have to give them the numbers. But then, when you whois a domain, you discover its owner is a grocery store, for instance.

    But there's more! There's the stupid Internet Managing Committee, that is a government committee (don't get fooled by that .org.br!) that harasses Brazilian users that care about their freedom with its decisions.

    Bah.

  7. .br policy by Carlos+Laviola · · Score: 3 · on Internet Policies in Other Countries?

    At least concerning domain names, the Brazilian NIC is very controlling. You can't register domain names without the proper documentation to ensure that you are a .com. The policies for other domains, like .net.br, are even worse: you have to be a "networking company" - like a telecom - in order to get one of those domains. That, together with the fact that they overcharge a lot, is like a "please go register a .com instead of a .com.br " request.



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  8. An example by Remote · · Score: 1 · on FSF Proposes .gnu TLD To ICANN

    I don't think this is going to help much, except for allowing for the existence of a parallel hidden Internet, much in the way there are hidden forums in some weblogs... Take a look at how things work in Brazil (you may prefer BabelFish)

    Once I really had to take a look at a company's website and they had the sad idea of registering as www.company.ind.br. I just couldn't find it! As a rule, nobody uses TLD's other than com.br, org.br and a very few net.br.
  9. They made a similar thing in Brazil... Only worse. by Molina+the+Bofh · · Score: 4 · on New TLDs On The Way From ICANN
    That's NOT a joke !
    Some years ago here in Brazil the only ones that could register a domain name were companies (and they had to prove they were companies). Regular people also wanted to register domains, as Internet was gaining popularity and personal websites becoming common. So they started complaining, and the powers that be decided to create new Brazilian TLDs just for regular people.

    They were so wise that they had a brilliant idea. To create various TLD's, each one for an occupation. So far so good. In a demonstration of their wisdom, they keenly chose 23 occupations as deserving a TLD. Some of them:

    .ntr.br - for nutritionists - with 12 domains registered

    .slg.br - for sociologists - with 3 domains

    .zlg.br - for zoologists - (no that's not a joke !) And it has *1* (one) domain registered since it was created on may 1999

    Obviously people just ignored these ridiculous TLDs and continued registering .com.br (that has 244594 domains registered - 92.69% of all Brazilian domains) You can check with your own eyes the Brazilian TLD's and their stats directly from Fapesp, the only Brazilian registrar (at least they work far better than Network Slowlutions). As its in Portuguese, Babelfish may help.

    Amazing, isn't it ?