What's the point of registering them? The big companies won't buy them & they won't get much traffic. If you develop the sites you will become a target of their lawyers (they don't care if they are parked & non-revenue producing) and you wouldn't be able to use western registrars, western hosts, western sources of income (adsense, clickbank..) or use western payment procersssors (paypal, moneybookers...). How will they make you money?
http://www.icann.org/cctlds/ http://www.icann.org/dndr/udrp/policy.htm I don't recall which countries opt for UDRP. But some might adopt their own dispute resolution policies.
actually using famous brands as a domain name sometims is not a good choice, as you say it coudl be illegal, furthermore you are using a known brand then your services must be according to this company for examply what could mean microsoft.ir and what would be its services, I dunnow really its a good name or not however for example sony.ir maybe be a good name for a reseller of sony equipments, and actually such names are registered by the corresponding companies also you may know yahoo.ir and google.ir as I saw have been registered by yahoo and google
yea ! google and yahoo get .ir domains and save it . you can register a.ir domain and sell it to everybody . for first : sign up here and create an NIC Handle . (http://register.nic.ir ) after do it . you got a NIC handle and you can login with this Handle to your panel . after login you can register a domain for a trial days ( 8 Days ) if you don't pay domain fee after 8 days . domain will be availabe to register with other . every .ir domain has : - Legal Holder - Admin Handle - Technical Handle if you want to sale a domian you can send a request to nic.ir to change Admin Handle /Technical Handle . ( you should send request by fax ) If you want change Leagal Holder of name you should send your passport copy and your customer passport copy .( you sould send information and request by fax ) you can check whois .ir domains here : www.nic.ir/whois i had many famous .ir domains ( dailynews.ir / getfirefox.ir / dreamhost.ir / netfirmes.ir / ... ) if you want more information say here to explain more .
This is a great way to learn about lawsuits, threatening letters and angry calls at all hours of the day. It's the fast road to learning what not to do!
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An ICANN dispute resolution costs at the minimum $1500 USD to get the domain name back. Add to that the lawyer fees that a big corporation must pay to file the claim and you can see it costs a few thousand dollars to get a domain through ICANN. Anything cheaper than that is a bargain to the company trying to get it. (Not that I would suggest any sort of extortion or squatting.)
the only such name that I'v registered till now is bhpbilliton.ir it could be a test, however I may register other ones too
register fee for iranian is : 125000 RLS . (1 year ) for foreign is : 24 Euro . (1 year ) : 384000 RLS for iranian . (5 year) : 72 Euro for foreign . ( 5 year ) But i can pay for you with lower price . i have a reseller panel of nic.ir . this forum is not for adsvertiment . if you want more information pm me . TheHoff . do you can give me an url of your information ?
Does foreigner may be intrested in .ir domains? for example these are some samples of my .ir domains ipay.ir ibusiness.ir bands.ir ---------------------- also you can suggest your desired name, and I will register it for you you can pm me