Is this correct?

Posted by Bashar
October 21, 2007

During the gather and build of my Q8Ba7th index, and the new Phone Search that was recently added to it, I stumbled upon very different, funny, weird, and amazing stuff. One of them was this site. Now at a first glance you may say this is just an ordinary tour operator called Caribbean Dream. Now look at the url clearly: http://www.idb31kuwait.gov.kw/index.html.

Caribbean Dream Tour Operator under .gov.kw domain

Going through the site, it has not relation to Kuwait at all. Yet, it has the word Kuwait in it’s domain name. But that’s alright. Anyone can register just that domain name by it self. What I really can’t understand is how it has the domain under Gov.KW??? .KW domains are only given to Kuwait sites, and you have to contact them and provide some form details and physical documents to get it. On top of that, .GOV it self is supposed to be reserved to Government domains only as far as I know. Any person can register a domain with word Kuwait in it. With some links, or being inside Kuwait, he probably can get around the .KW thing. But reaching the .GOV! :).

Further searching have revealed it was listed by Kuwait-Info previously as Annual Meeting of IDB Group in Kuwait. Which made some sense. But somehow the domain was directed to non-related site and this is the net result.

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Pingback by My Ghillie » Is this correct? on October 21, 2007 @ 7:14 am

I’ll tell you what happened. The government’s host expired and their URL still points to the old servers. XD

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Pingback by Is this correct? at Domains on October 22, 2007 @ 2:27 pm

3baid: The domain name looked silly anyways in the first place :)

Comment by Bashar on October 22, 2007 @ 3:36 pm

Hi bashar, interesting blog :) i likes most of the topic :)
Yeah,,
Let me tell you my story with the Kuwait Top Level Domain Name -> http://ebrahim.tv/?p=27
cheers,,

Comment by Ebrahim on November 4, 2007 @ 9:28 pm

Thanks for the complement… and your post…
what can I say… I would burn in my place if I were you, but since I juts ignore any .kw domain as an option, that wasn’t me thank God.

Comment by Bashar on November 5, 2007 @ 7:47 pm

Maybe the Kuwaiti Gov is making some extra money?
;)

Comment by Nicole on December 22, 2007 @ 11:21 am

Well it would be weird way to add some money to the oil business! Doesn’t compare I say

Comment by Bashar on December 23, 2007 @ 10:36 am
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