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To: Muditha Gunatilake <muditha@seychelles.net>
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Subject: Re: Domain Registration 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 12 Mar 1997 05:24:39 GMT."
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Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 22:22:28 -0800
From: Chris Bura <chris@main.Netcorps.com>
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Check out www.alldomains.com.  They have all the information available
for every country, including forms, fees, requirements, whois, etc.,etc.

Chris
Net Corps

> 
> On Wed, 12 Mar 1997, Muditha Gunatilake wrote:
> > I want to register a top domain level name for a country. How can I do
> > that.... tried filling out the template at www.internic.net..but keeps
> > coming back saying it is only for .com,.net.org etc.???
> > 
> > Any help???
> 
> As far as I can tell, (I didn't really check, but your email implies this)
> you are in the uk. Internic control registrations for .com .org .mil .gov
> 
> (actually I think some of those are conrolled by some .mil ppl, but who
> cares as they aren't going to give you any space under .mil or .gov
> unless, as a side note, quite unfairly you would have to be part of the
> US government or military (note the US bit))
> 
> So, if you want to register a .uk name you need to talk to nic.uk
> Well, this is what I assume you're doing, or trying to do.
> If not, then it might be best to let people know what name you really do
> want and then it would be easier to find out who you need to talk to 
> about it.