[ILUG] [ot] .eu...

[John McCormac]

Noel Carroll wrote:
> 
> What I found strange was, last time I was at one of those computer shows in
> the RDS, it was an internet show that did useful stuff during the week and
> wen't int luser mode for the weekend, there was a company there who had
> bought up most of the town names in the country and you could registery your
> email and account with them.   I just remember looking at local places like
> ennistymon.ie and lisdoonvarna.ie and wondering how they managed to do that.


The op that you saw was probably ICELTIC. It is an American company that
has registered a slew of Irish and Celtic flavoured domains in the .com
.net and .org tlds. It is precluded from registering in Ireland since it
has no claim to the domains here.

Regards...jmcc
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