.mobi What if a Domain should have been reserved but got missed ?

[ginggang]

Found something interesting this afternoon. A domain name that should have got reserved was missed. I think this was an error. Do you think that it could be taken off me ?

It's a country. Something has been registered in its place but with a grammatical error. All references by goverment sources relate to it as the domain I just regged.

EDIT : to avoid "What Names ?"

gambia.mobi Reserved

thegambia.mobi I just regged.

The Gambia is it's proper title, like The Netherlands.

 

[klm390]

Could you give us the two names you are talking about?

Thanks

 

[hawkeye]

I would think the tourism department of TheGambia would be interested in that one.


..do they have a tourism department.??

 

[scandiman]

Nice find. But IMO the version without the "the" will get the better traffic even though it is technically incorrect. Regardless it is a nice find and should be yours without any hassles. I don't think they can repo it from you but I'm no expert on that. During landrush I gambled on 2 letter .mobi's hoping for a mistake on their part but no such luck

 

[fautebol]

I don't know, but I noticed a worse error with Switzerland in German (Switzerland' main language).

There has been a typo and Schweitz was reserved instead of Schweiz (of course registered by someone on 26 September). I don't know how they will manage this...

 

[scandiman]

I don't know, but I noticed a worse error with Switzerland in German (Switzerland' main language).

There has been a typo and Schweitz was reserved instead of Schweiz (of course registered by someone on 26 September). I don't know how they will manage this...

Ooops

 

[thinking1]

I passed over "the gambia" because it just doesn't get too many hits. Gambia of course gets more traffic. I don't like "the" that much either in my names,