Egypt to change name? Domain Opportunity?

[inbound]

It looks as though there is a chance (don't know the real likelyhood) that Egypt will be renamed Masr - some of the people seem to want it at least (and that is the Egyptian name so I can't see it being anything else).

Could be that a few speculative registrations could be worthwhile. I concentrate on the UK so will only be buying the one I have already bought (Masr.biz - which is a bit poor apparently given the low value of .biz names).

Just thought some of you might want to look at it.

 

[Alien]

Thank you inbound. I've just taken a punt with the .org.uk....

 

[Aaron Clifford]

I'm pretty sure its "Misr"?

From wikipedia:

# Misr—the romanized Arabic name for the country of Egypt
# .misr or مصر. the internationalized domain name of Egypt

 

[retired_member12]

Not a chance in hell it'll change its name.

 

[Serge]

I'm pretty sure its "Misr"?

From wikipedia:

# Misr—the romanized Arabic name for the country of Egypt
# .misr or مصر. the internationalized domain name of Egypt

Hmm.... 101domain

 

[Retired_member41]

Not a chance in hell it'll change its name.

Its surreal to think people actually believe its a possibility.

 

[Serge]

Its surreal to think people actually believe its a possibility.

Well - it depends on point of view. Here are some examples of countries changing their names (in 70's):

Ceylon is now Sri Lanka,
East Pakistan is now Bangladesh,
Persia is now Iran,
Rhodesia is now Zimbabwe,

 

[inbound]

A couple of points:

Masr seems to be the correct version (having consulted an Egyptian), even the page on Wikipedia about the IDN states Masr (although we know that does not mean it's correct - also try masr in the search and misr, which one forwards to Egypt?)

Also, in regards to the likelyhood:

It's not very likely, but these things do happen - especially when citizens are not happy with the name in use.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographical_renaming#Countries

 

[retired_member12]

There is no chance it'll happen, it would fuck the song up:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lc5jjHhD9BY

 

[binny]

Its surreal to think people actually believe its a possibility.

its unlikely but its hardly surreal

 

[doodlebug]

There is no chance it'll happen, it would fuck the song up:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lc5jjHhD9BY

Exactly what I thought, I wasn't concerned about the Egyptian pyramids being called the Masrian pyramids but the song being called walk like a Masrian is what came to my mind :lol:

Caz, it's not surreal but it is highly unlikely :neutral:

 

[namealot]

There is more chance of atlantis rising from the sea and becoming the worlds largest producer of smoked ham….

And I see atlantissmokedham is availble in all tld,s wonder if anyone will buy them

 

[namealot]

I'm pretty sure its "Misr"?

From wikipedia:

# Misr—the romanized Arabic name for the country of Egypt
# .misr or مصر. the internationalized domain name of Egypt

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masr_(domain_name) so it could be xn--wgbh1c better reg that one too