*.cc Your opinions?

[Mike Weck]

Hello all,

Have you heard in the news or in advertisements about the .cc domain? The are heavily promoting it here in Orlando... I am wondering how well it will do? Or if they are going to just flood the market with domains?

More info is at www.spot.cc (http://www.spot.cc)

Any thoughts?

I think that this and future variations of .com will only lead to more confusion for the everyday joe computer user.

Mike

[RobA]

Unless you can think of a really cool _must have_
domain name that needs *.cc like "www.go.to (http://www.go.to)" did
with the *.to domain, or if you have the bucks to
spend and want to grab every available top-level of
your dotcom name, I wouldn't bother with it.

My reason is that when people see foobar.com, .net, or
.org they think "website".[nbsp][nbsp]When I see foobar.cc I think
"Is it a file in the C language? Is it a Lotus ccMail file of some sort? huh?"

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Rob A
... now if you are the webmaster for the 10cc fan club site...

[Scott]

Hi Mike,

Well, here's an eye opener.

I just visited the .cc people to see what they we're all about. Checked my domain in .cc and found it was taken....by ME!

Someone somehow registered my domain with a .cc under my name.[nbsp][nbsp]I didnt do it, I was not even aware of this .cc till today.

I have to check my billing/credit card statements to see if I was charged for this.

An e-mail in regard to this has been sent.

Spooky.
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Scott
www.modbod.com (http://www.modbod.com)

[Mike Weck]

That is crazy!![nbsp][nbsp]

Be sure to post the response they give... if not for pure entertainment :)

[Scott]

*UPDATE*

I have found another .cc name mysteriously registered under my name and NOT by me.

NEVER ORDERED .cc's:
modbod.cc
tsunamis.cc

Registered under Garrabrant Studios, Inc.

I think what they might have done is search the whois database, look for a certain type of registrant, (Inc., LLC, whatever), set up an account, THEN, send a bill with no obligation.

I never received a bill for these, and the record created date was around 1/11/99.

This is all an assumption.

I don't dig this type of strong arm sales.

btw, so far no reply to my e-mail.
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Scott
www.modbod.com (http://www.modbod.com)

[Scott]

*UPDATE*

Found two more unauthorized .cc registration:

ondv.cc
neocam.cc
Registered to Garrabrant Studios, Inc.
1/11/99

No reply from customer service yet.

Will keep you posted.

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Scott
www.modbod.com (http://www.modbod.com)

[This message has been edited by Scott (edited 01-13-00@5:37 pm)]

[turnkey]

Interesting that they redirected to your URL. Is it because they used the FQ name servers?

[MTDesigns]

I remember a few months back I received a letter in the mail from a company that wanted me to buy the .cc to my domain, and that it was temporarily working under myparentime.cc - I checked it out, & it was...but I didn't buy ;) .

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Joi
My ParenTime (Info Community)
http://www.myparentime.com
STOP Sex Offenders (Child Safety)
http://www.stopsexoffenders.com

[Scott]

Joi,

I may have been sent one of those, but it never made it to the table....I get enough junk mail that I could wallpaper a house with it all :)

Have yet to hear from customer service <img src="http://www.aota.net/ubb/confuse.gif" alt=":/" width=15 height=15>

btw, turnkey havent a clue how they redirected them.

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Scott
www.modbod.com (http://www.modbod.com)

[This message has been edited by Scott (edited 01-14-00@04:42 am)]

[RobA]

Maybe it's my skeptical nature...

They say on their site:

Companies like Nike, Coke, Goodyear and Intel have already registered many .CC domains -- now it's your turn.

Thanks to Scott's post we know that someone is registering companies with a *.cc without the knowlege of the company.

Now is it just me, or do others think that maybe these &quot;big name&quot; companies have never heard of the *.cc domain?[nbsp][nbsp]I can't be sure, but this has my internal BS detection alarm going off.

-
Rob Altenburg
xlation.com

[Scott]

*UPDATE*

Have yet to hear from *.cc customer service!

Will keep you posted.


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Scott
www.modbod.com (http://www.modbod.com)

[YFS200]

They did the same to me. Only I saw the email(could dig it up if anyone wants). It was a forwarding promotion thing to get me to buy the .cc domain.
Sort of a &quot;Look at what we did to your domain, an't that cool? But gotta pay if you want to keep it.&quot;[nbsp][nbsp]

I think they wanted a lot of bucks too.

YFS200
[This message has been edited by YFS200 (edited 01-15-00@04:35 am)]

[Deb]

I received the same email and postal mail a while back for *every one* of my domains![nbsp][nbsp]They are promoting the .cc tld very hard right now.[nbsp][nbsp]Heh even our local radio station is now bragging about their new .cc domain and promoting the *** out of it.[nbsp][nbsp]Gee, I wonder how much they're making for that one?[nbsp][nbsp]At the same time... because this company seems to be spending so much on promoting the .cc domain it may turn out to be a viable option when the .com/.net/.org TLDs are taken and you really really want &quot;this particular&quot; domain name.[nbsp][nbsp]If the .cc does catch-on it'll offer yet another tld to ease the searching a bit...[nbsp][nbsp]who knows...

Deb
[nbsp]-- BTW did ya notice I moved this thread? :P

[Scott]

I was wondering where this thread went to..... :)

It would be nice if some of the new gTLD's we're released at the up n coming Cairo meeting.

BTW, still no reply from spot.cc
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Scott
www.modbod.com (http://www.modbod.com)

[Scott]

*UPDATE*

My domains are no longer registered .cc, now they point to the enic.cc website.

Never did get a reply from the customer service / admin. people at spot.cc

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Scott
www.modbod.com (http://www.modbod.com)