Ethiopian ccTLD catch-all

[estibot.com]

Someone is making a killing parking .et domain names. I stumbled onto them while trying to access whois.net, you've guessed it, I missed the "n" and typed whois.et.

I wonder if it's the registry, government, or some individual that has the catch-all for .et domains. Kevin Ham pulled a catch-all with the .cm domains (apparently that fell through though).

It doesn't look like registering .et domains can be done by just anybody? Has anyone here tried?

Register whois.et and set up a whois service with integrated affiliate services and you're done

 

[MadAboutDomains]

I suspect that your browser is deceiving you, because i'm not sure that they use just .ET on it's own. From what I can see it is .COM.ET, .GOV.ET etc. etc.

 

[lzy]

Wow, looks like it. Not as brilliant as the .cm move but still pretty damn clever. :imho:

 

[TheBaldOne]

I think you may well find Kevin Ham behind it! He is very clever and has built up a team where they work out business with the government and authorised bodies directly.

Hell if only I could have his resources for a single day.........................

 

[italiandragon]

I think you may well find Kevin Ham behind it! He is very clever and has built up a team where they work out business with the government and authorised bodies directly.

Hell if only I could have his resources for a single day.........................

He did say he was going to try to do that...

 

[Kate]

I posted this a while ago at DNF
I'm wondering if Kevin did it

I suspect that your browser is deceiving you, because i'm not sure that they use just .ET on it's own. From what I can see it is .COM.ET, .GOV.ET etc. etc.

You are correct but the wildcard still works on 2nd level :gl: