Looking for com in a Muslim World

Walking the streets of Cairo reminds me a bit of Asian countries. Without Roman and Greek letters on signs it is nearly impossible to understand things other than familiar logos. I have no problem navigating streets in French, Spanish or other European countries but Arabic, Japanese and the like make you feel like you are truly on another planet.

While there may be .com and .eg (Egypt’s ccTLD, not a gTLD for examples) signs on the street, I haven’t seen any yet.

Of course I’ve also been wandering streets in a jet lag induced stupor. I arrived after an eight hour flight to Amsterdam and a nine hour layover in the same city. I woke up Sunday at 14:00 hours, just in time to go to the Egyptian museum on my one day off and stand in line until the museum closed. In fact, I haven’t really done anything here yet.

Today, however, marks the start of another ICANN conference and my first in eight years. I’ve got a big agenda and many things I want to accomplish this week. Fortunately, most of the signs in the hotels and airports are in English.

I can return to ICANN and I will

Not since 1999 have I been to an ICANN meeting. I was at the first two in Singapore and Berlin but life took other turns and I stopped going to them. Looking at their meeting archives, I’ve missed a lot.

It’s not only the business opportunities either. If you can make money off those meetings, you can really see every corner of the globe. This next meeting is in Cairo. If you plan to attend, please contact me so we can get together.

November will, in fact, be a busy month. I’ll be spending the first two weeks in Egypt and Amsterdam working on new products and services for the industry which i can’t talk about yet; then the third week in Australia for our auction and the TRAFFIC Down Under convention. All-in-all, I’ll touch 4 continents when I land back home in the States. Perhaps I should go to Brazil just for the hell of it.

My wife’s not to happy about me going to Egypt without her but I promissed that I won’t do any sight-seeing. It’s hard to type with your fingers crossed, by the way.

Why I like Fabulous.com

Like most large domainers I have accounts at all of the major registrars. Fabulous.com is without a doubt my favorite. There are a number of reasons for this.

My favorite thing about them is their permission based login system. I love the fact that I can have employees login to my account and register names but not transfer them out, alter the DNS or see the financial information.

There tools are by far the easiest to use.

Their site is fast.

We never have to contact their support twice. Issues get handled on the first attempt.

They are not in the United States which helps from a liability standpoint of owning so many names.

They have an excellent security. You can choose to executive lock a name which means it can’t be transferred out unless you contact Fabulous and personally ask them to.

And then there is my favorite part. They are all-around good people. Dan and Richard are both class acts.

Kudos to Fabulous.com. You deserve a shout out.