.ag

[shandi]

any ideas about what .ag may stand for?

AGriculture, AG (Adriano Goldshmied) Jeans, Ag ( Chemical element) and i found one on Wikipedia
" AG, Aktiengesellschaft in the sense of a corporation with stockholders, like www.bmw.ag"

 

[jido]

Ag is not any chemical element, it is Silver (another to note is Au for Gold).

But the greatest use is AG for Public Company in German-speaking countries.

 

[Kate]

I don't think you will have any luck in Germany with .ag. For one thing they love their .de and there are restrictions for German entities when it comes to using .ag names:

Legal status in Germany

In Germany the Domain .ag has a secondary meaning: AG, Aktiengesellschaft in the sense of a corporation with stockholders like www.bmw.ag. A German court (5. Zivilsenat des Oberlandesgerichtes Hamburg) ruled in July 2004 in second instance that a .ag domain may only be registered by an Aktiengesellschaft and more precisely by an AG that has the same name as the domain. That means even if you own a company with shareholders in Germany with the name SAP AG, you may not register example.ag. [1] [2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.ag

You can still try your luck in Austria or Switzerland but I wouldn't bother. They already use their ccTLDs.

 

[sundari]

I don't think you will have any luck in Germany with .ag. For one thing they love their .de and there are restrictions for German entities when it comes to using .ag names:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.ag

You can still try your luck in Austria or Switzerland but I wouldn't bother. They already use their ccTLDs.

The .ag registry is promoting the .ag cctld as Aktiengesellschaft in addition to Agriculture, AG (Chemical Symbol for Silver) and Antigua and Babuda.

Some interesting sales in .ag cctld:

Ski.AG - $15,480
Immobilien.AG (RealEstate in German) - 2200 EUR
Haus.AG (House in German) - $1,360
Hotel.AG - $3,325

Wetter.AG - Owned and operated by Mowis GmbH - Mobile Weather

.AG has great potential. .AG is an alternative to .DE, imo.