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8th August 2006, 01:42 PM
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The city of Moscow will buy moscow.ru?
This article is talking about improving the image of Moscow and, since moscow.com is taken, the city of Moscow is considering buying moscow.ru from its owner to build a city portal in English.
http://www.gzt.ru/society/2006/08/07/222040.html
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8th August 2006, 03:33 PM
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Re: The city of Moscow will buy moscow.ru?
Well that is better than them requisitioning it!
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8th August 2006, 04:45 PM
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Re: The city of Moscow will buy moscow.ru?
Everyone knows City Geodomains are mostly accessed by ... guess who? Not tourists! But people in the city itself!
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8th August 2006, 04:47 PM
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Re: The city of Moscow will buy moscow.ru?
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Originally Posted by blastfromthepast
Everyone knows City Geodomains are mostly accessed by ... guess who? Not tourists! But people in the city itself!
Moscow would be better served by actually becomming a real city instead of wasting money on domains and "image", read: propaganda.
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Absolutely correct, but those trying to access from outside might use this formulation. Although Dot Com is most likely.
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8th August 2006, 04:52 PM
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Re: The city of Moscow will buy moscow.ru?
Yes, but these results are heavily skewed due to the fact that Russians don't use Google!
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8th August 2006, 05:03 PM
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Re: The city of Moscow will buy moscow.ru?
That's right, but the point wasn't about Russian searchers, but about those who search for "Moscow" in English.
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8th August 2006, 06:31 PM
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Re: The city of Moscow will buy moscow.ru?
On a slightly lesser scale, anyone who believes they can broker my MoskvaCity.com and/or москвасити.com please feel free.
Target is enough for a villa each in country of your choice :-)
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8th August 2006, 06:55 PM
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Re: The city of Moscow will buy moscow.ru?
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Originally Posted by chaumi
On a slightly lesser scale, anyone who believes they can broker my MoskvaCity.com and/or москвасити.com please feel free.
Target is enough for a villa each in country of your choice :-)
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I believe that those names are trademarks of the developer of that particular real estate development. Good luck.
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Re: The city of Moscow will buy moscow.ru?
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Originally Posted by chaumi
On a slightly lesser scale, anyone who believes they can broker my MoskvaCity.com and/or москвасити.com please feel free.
Target is enough for a villa each in country of your choice :-)
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I believe that those names are trademarks of the developer of that particular real estate development. Good luck.
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8th August 2006, 07:13 PM
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Re: The city of Moscow will buy moscow.ru?
That's bad news
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8th August 2006, 07:16 PM
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Re: The city of Moscow will buy moscow.ru?
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Last edited by thegenius1; 8th August 2006 at 07:38 PM..
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8th August 2006, 07:34 PM
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Re: The city of Moscow will buy moscow.ru?
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