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.wales – please fill in the Nominet consultation
It was always difficult to estimate how many domains would be sold. .cat took about 5 years I think to sell 50,000 domains and they have 3 times the population of Wales. But they haven't done any marketing so 40,000 in Wales with a lot spent on marketing may be possible. They may sell 10,000...- dotCymru
- Post #99
- Forum: Nominet General Information
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.wales – please fill in the Nominet consultation
It isn't just the Welsh-speaking community that's losing out here. There's a lot of resentment in Wales towards Nominet and all parties involved by both Welsh-speakers and non-Welsh-speakers. But only a very small percentage of the people of Wales know or understand what's happened so I don't...- dotCymru
- Post #78
- Forum: Nominet General Information
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.wales – please fill in the Nominet consultation
Sorry Edwin, I failed to point out that the Minister had refused to give us a grant for the money, it was a loan, which with a successful TLD would have been repaid quickly, so the Government would not have lost out. And since our profits would be reinvested in the Welsh economy, that loan...- dotCymru
- Post #77
- Forum: Nominet General Information
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.wales – please fill in the Nominet consultation
We had asked the Welsh Government for over $500,000 and the Minister responsible before Edwina Hart, Ieuan Wyn Jones (IWJ), had promised us the funding. We had no intention of doing this on a shoestring. But Ieuan Wyn Jones was pretty useless. He didn't really understand what a TLD was and he...- dotCymru
- Post #67
- Forum: Nominet General Information
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.wales – please fill in the Nominet consultation
Good morning Nigel, We did consider complaining to the OFT but didn't have the time or money to do so and was unable to find a lawyer or barrister to do it pro bono. Not only will Nominet use current funds for the launch but they used a considerable amount of funds from selling .uk domains...- dotCymru
- Post #64
- Forum: Nominet General Information
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.wales – please fill in the Nominet consultation
A TLD for the Welsh Community has been inevitable for many years. We first aimed for .cym but due to ICANN rule changes a few years ago which meant we weren't able to use the 'cym' String since it was the three-letter country code for the Cayman Islands, we were going to apply for .cymru. We...- dotCymru
- Post #62
- Forum: Nominet General Information
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.wales – please fill in the Nominet consultation
I was one of the directors of dotCYM Ltd that was started about 6 years ago in order to apply for and manage a TLD for the Welsh community. For 4 years during a coalition Government, a Plaid Cymru Minister was responsible for the TLD issue and he supported working with a Welsh not-for-profit...- dotCymru
- Post #60
- Forum: Nominet General Information
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