Subject: EU or not?<br/>
Date: Sep 13, 2002 @ 16:17<br/>
Author: Kevin Meynell (Kevin Meynell &lt;kevin@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1007718480">Peter,<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt;Yes, you&#39;re quite correct, but another serious problem is the fact<br/>
&gt;that the island is extremely difficult to land on. The seas are<br/>
&gt;rough, the shore is rugged, and the weather not very nice for most of<br/>
&gt;the time. Not a spot where any Paddy, Roy or Harry would like to<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>You&#39;re quite right that it&#39;s not a place where entrepreneurs would <br/>
physically wish to go, but it has a useful country code (BV). At the height <br/>
of the .com boom, a number of companies were interested in selling .bv <br/>
domains to Dutch companies. Unfortunately for them, Uninett (the Norwegian <br/>
domain registry) refuse to register domain names under this TLD.<br/>
<br/>
However, some nice registration businesses were created out of other <br/>
obscure islands with interesting country/territory codes (e.g. .nu). These <br/>
mostly uninhabited places became known in the trade as &#39;penguin registries&#39; <br/>
(although of course Niue isn&#39;t uninhabited and I don&#39;t think it has <br/>
penguins either) ;-)<br/>
<br/>
Regards,<br/>
<br/>
Kevin Meynell</div>