Registering in ALL tlds

[Kevin Darcy]

Tell your boss what he asks is impossible. Many foreign registries
simply won't allow you to register directly under their TLD: they'll
force you to go under co.<TLD> (assuming you're a commercial outfit), or
some level deeper. And since they own the TLD, after all, you play by
their rules or not at all.

Register.com has a price list for all of the country-code domain
registrations they'll handle, and a total at the bottom, i.e. register
*everywhere*, that is greater than $25,000. Ask your boss what part of
the budget that comes out of. His bonus?

(Sorry if that's a little vicious, but I'm just a little sick and tired
of some of the domain-o-rrhea I've had to put up with lately. Can you
say "gnarlycoolgroovy.com"? I can. Barf.)

As for creating zone files into the next century (that's next year,
isn't it? :-), if the zone data is trivial enough, you could probably do
the old "point all of the zone definitions to the same zone file" trick.


- Kevin

Michael Cunningham wrote:

> Hey folks,
>
> Figuring that this is a dns group..someone must have experience
> with this. My boss was me to register our company name in all the
> tlds and country domains. (we are worldwide). I am not thrilled about
> this but hey.. he's the boss:) Is there a one stop shop somewhere to
> do this or do I need to go to dozens of different places to get it
> done. Any suggestions? Can network solutions do this? Can anyone
> suggest a register like register.com that has a nice web interface
> to do it? The internic is a total pain to deal with when using their
> email system. Register.com is a lot easier.. How many tlds are there
> by the way? every country in the world basically? sigh... I am going
> to be creating zone files for the next centuary.
>
> Thanks.. Mike