Ok, today was the launching of the first non english characters in the .biz domain [eg: ü, ä, ö] - which are commonly used in german (ofcourse) and [ä, ö] also used in Swedish.
I was well prepared for the launch of those, which was supposed to begin at 9 am EST. I had several different registers ready with "bulk register" so I only needed to push a button at 9 am EST, after first trying on a "test browsing window".
What happens at 9 am? Nothing. 5 minutes goes and I start to look around for even more registers. I found out later that only those registers affiliated with "Schlund + Partner AG" did work to register with. Ok, instead of paying $5.49 with Ev1 or $4.99 with GoDaddy, the prices possible to get if you didn't have a german bank account was about $12. I started to register a few, missed some of the gems of couse but that was already discounted for before even jumping into this.
Anyway, picked up "hälsa.biz" (eg: health in english or Gesundheit in german). All was cleared, then I get a mail saying I got a refund for that domain and it didn't go thru.
I wanted to know why so I called up a german number. They were very friendly and spoke perfect English. He got my details and said he tought that the word was on a black list. WTF, health on a blacklist??? He put me on hold for 3-4 minutes and came back and told me that someone else registered the domain just a before me, it could have been a few seconds or so...
Really irritating... did it ever happen to you? After all, the electronic ordering system doesn't work perfectly??? Might have been a very busy period..
Anyway, grabbed some sweet real estate domains,
like bostäder (housing), lägenhet (apartment), lägenheter (apartments), fastighetsmäklare (real estate broker)... and not to forget: män.biz (like: men.biz). KRL, are ya interested ?
