[nineteen999]

On a tangent here, a bit over 20 years ago I used to work for a guy who registered "boss.com.xx" (where xx is a country TLD I won't detail) because that was the name of his publishing company here. This was still dialup/ISDN days for most small companies over here.

He held on to it for a long time, but I noticed in the last couple of years that it now redirects to www.hugoboss.com. Knowing this particular person I am fairly sure that he would have sold it to them for a pretty penny.

[cs02rm0]

I'm not sure the list of countries that use com.xx is particularly long. And the the list of those with that redirect is even shorter (one?!)

Perhaps there's opportunity to bag the few others and drop them an offer. =)

[zenexer]

If you do that, you’ll be facing a UDRP. You’ll be out a domain plus legal fees.

[cs02rm0]

Chill out Hugo, it was a joke.

[zenexer]

Fair enough. ;) But if it wasn't obvious to me, it probably wasn't obvious to other readers; a disclaimer can't hurt.

[aliswe]

A lot of large companies I've worked with do not care to overtake domains with matching names, and sometimes do not even contact the owners to get a quote.