Reserved .infos

[gph]

Were all country names reserved in the .info TLD? I checked out kuwait.info and libya.info and they appeared to be owned by ICANN??

gph

 

[StockDoctor]

Yeah they were reserved. I got one of the few they missed or were late on Virginislands.info. England.info sold for around $10k, and was as close to another available country name (United Kingdom) that I've seen. (Didn't you sell that one?) I'd be interested in acquiring others that someone ended up with if any.
Doc

 

[hanogl]

At first these domains were free to register, but at some moment in time Icann asked Afilias to reserve these domains. Afilias then locked all that were still available and reclaimed some more in the Sunrise challenge.
Some weird things still happened, for example I got Schweiz.info (Switzerland) as Afilias made a spelling mistake: Schweitz.info is still locked.
Unitedkingdom is locked under the Icann rule, England.info was freely available as it is not an official country name: England is part of the country United Kingdom.

 

[QuantumBeam]

interesting, isnt' it ................? ? ?

 

[seeker]

and it shows how the newer tlds work... *non* competively.
similar to my .ws thread


P.S.

I own the closest think to UnitedKingdom.info there is, so i guess I should be happy