Early in the morning I wanted to register a domain. Just for fun and very spontaniously I played with the domain registration tool at hostpoint.ch just to find a nice domain. Well, I tried ipho.ne and it was still available. It should have been my first iPhone. I was so excited and couldn’t await the confirmation that I would be the owner of ipho.ne for one year.

My dream finished some minutes ago. I got an e-mail informing me, that they can’t register this domain because of political problems in the country of Niger (.ne is the domain name of Niger).

Wir können die Domain ipho.ne aus folgende Grund nicht registrieren. Die
Domain ne ( Niger ) wird nicht mehr registriert weil im Land stets politsche
Probleme herrschen die auf einen absehbaren Zeitpunkt nicht gelöst werden
können. Die Bestellung wurde gelöscht.

I’m a little demotivated now. I have to wait until the end of this year to get such a cool iPhone. But I souldn’t be so egocentric and materialistic. People in Niger have real problems and I don’t think they are waiting for some products launches. They realy wait for solutions on on the polical level, safety & security and at least a chance to live and not always just try to survive.

Unfortunately, there’s no iPolitics in the near future. An easy to use political system that matches people needs all over the world. That’s a real challenge. It seems impossible to develop a standard solution for political systems. And democracy is realy a proprietary one with lots of different extensions and plug-ins. What about using the knowledge of software engineering of acquiring requirements and create a solution?
Think about it, I’ll do.