How did the Saudi land rush work out for you?

[o.c.]

Any non-citizens (or even citizens) having luck with the Saudi land rush?

Although I imagine the people who managed to get a few may not respond to this and just smile. From what I had read, the guidelines for the land rush portion weren’t crystal clear to me (meaning it wasn’t clear to me if the land rush would have the same/similar/different rules compared to the sunrise) so I tried my luck as a non-citizen individual and non-Saudi corporation and failed miserably. All that cumbersome paperwork for nothing. Do tell us though if you have any success stories once the dust settles. I am just curious.

And it seems like even if you are a Saudi citizen applying as an individual during landrush, you still need supporting paperwork supporting your “relation” to the requested domain. Is that the case?

Also what’s deal with “you can transfer a domain but you can’t sell”? Are they going to monitor people’s Paypal transactions? :D

[bumblebee man]

...

2/2 Registration services are provided only to the following categories:

1. An entity physically located in Saudi Arabia
2. A natural person, not underage, with a Saudi national identification card or equivalent document issued by the Ministry of Interior of Saudi Arabia
3. An entity with a registration or license issued by a pertinent authority in Saudi Arabia
4. An owner of a trademark or trade name that is registered in Saudi Arabia.

...

6 - Prohibited Activities

6/1 A Registrant may not reserve, register, use, or maintain a domain name, nor submit any Service Request related to it as a mean to do or to support any of the following activities:

1. Reselling or renting the domain name
2. Domain name warehousing.
3. Cyber-squatting or phishing other websites and services
4. Acquiring fraudulently personal or confidential information or other means of identification
5. Spamming or sending malicious e-mails
6. Hosting or distributing malware
7. Hijacking domain names
8. Cracking systems and networks, or perform denial of service attacks
9. Activities or content against the Islamic religion or Saudi laws and regulations (e.g., pornography, illegal drugs, alcohol, gambling and intellectual property piracy)
10. Activities classified as information crimes according to the pertinent regulations
11. Activities that are in violation of This Regulation or any SaudiNIC regulations and procedures.
12. After the approval of the CITC governor, SaudiNIC may add any additional prohibited activities to those mentioned in (6/1). In that case, it will be posted on SaudiNIC website


http://www.nic.net.sa/page.php?page=83&lang=1

Total waste of time and money imho.

[o.c.]

http://www.nic.net.sa/page.php?page=83&lang=1

Total waste of time and money imho.

I agree with the time part. It is free to register and transfer though.

[DktoInc]

I wonder what the punishment will be for reselling or renting

[bumblebee man]

I agree with the time part. It is free to register and transfer though.

There's no such thing as a free lunch ...

... or domain name. :p

[has2hands]

Looks like the part about female domain ownership is missing :)

13. No Domains may be owned by females.