Domain Name Registration for .com.sa

Companies in China nowadays are engaged into registering domain names of any company that they can think of. Surprisingly, this scheme has reached the Saudi Arabian shores. They would register everything from .com.sa, .gov.sa, .vn, .ph, .sa, and actually, practically all the domain extensions that they can think of.

The bad thing with this scheme is that for example your domain name is Olayan.com, these companies in China would outdo you into registering the .com.sa extension. It’ll of course be a big loss of business in your part. They could actually sell the extension to your competitor.

This past week I’ve been very busy coordinating with the different Admin and IT Managers of our Operating companies just to make sure that they’ll register the extensions .com.sa of their websites. Some of them don’t see any rush to do the registration process but when I explained to them the chances that other company might outdo them into registering the .com.sa domain name, they’ll be in a big trouble. What we really did was we drafted the letters and they’ll (Operating Companies) just have to sign that letter and fax it together with their Commercial Registration to the domain registration committee in Riyadh.

But sometimes, with Arabs involved in the process, it could be very tedious. Some of them really love procrastinating. I thought that Filipinos are fond of procrastination but I was proved wrong. Some of them are also full of themselves with egos as big as a pumpkin ball. They’re also fond of bureaucracy. In fact, a guy from our Admin Department was so fond of initials or signatures that he won’t do anything without the initials of the requesting head. He’ll insist of the initials even if he knows the urgency and importance of the documents. I understand that just want to follow rules but when the interest of the business is at stake, he’ll have to bend sometimes. He should know how to weigh the urgency and priorities. The most important thing is getting the job done.