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Summarized by Kent Larsen
Ricks Says it Got Most BYU-Idaho Domains, But Not in .com
REXBURG, IDAHO -- While Ricks' officials tried to move fast last June in
registering domain names for its new name, BYU-Idaho, when the announcement
was made, others moved faster, registering most of the .com domain names
before Ricks could get to them. In an article in yesterday's Spokane
Spokesman-Review, Ricks' Robert Reed, who manages Internet services for the
school, said he had targeted 36 different names as the most critical to
protect the school from objectionable material that might be misrepresented
as belonging to the school.
Analysis by Mormon News indicates that while Reed did move quickly, others
hoping to cash-in on the name change moved faster. Ricks officials
registered seven variations on BYU-Idaho that Mormon News identified, but
only in two of the cases did Ricks get the more desirable .com name. In
total, Ricks missed at least ten of the names using these variations in
.com, .net and .org.
Still, Reed seems to feel that collecting the names was important. "As far
as we're concerned for Ricks College, BYU-Idaho or whatever you want to call
us now, we represent the church," Reed said. "We want to make sure that
there is nothing objectionable out there that might represent us using our
name." Reed probably wants to avoid the situation Ricks encountered with
Ricks.com, which is a pornographic site advertising a night club.
Meanwhile, the Spokesman-Review article indicates that after the transition,
BYU-Idaho's official domain name will be byui.edu, similar to BYU-Hawaii's
domain name, byuh.edu. But the new name doesn't work just yet. Current rules
require that the registrant be an accredited four-year degree-granting
college to get a domain in .edu. meaning that BYU-Idaho will have to wait
until it is accredited as a four-year school. Ricks currently has a .edu
domain name because it obtained the domain before the four-year requirement
was started.
Source:
Ricks claims most domain names
Spokane WA Spokesman-Review 12Sep00 D3
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