Free Belgium .be domains for all

BNM list has come up with some great ones this morning. This may rapidly replace the bumhole game…

Oral.be - James Bowman

Praise.be - Jonathan Hirsch

heebeegee.be - Anthony Hall

giantstheymight.be - Jaime Freeman

Update here Thanks

Hi Duzin,

I’m actually very interested in this. I’d like to hear your thoughts if you have time.

I’ll give you my perspective here first. We’re not the largest Registrar in the world, certainly not the size of Godaddy etc. We buy our .be domains from our wholesalers at $15. I have them for sale here at £16.50 (approx. $29). We’re making $15 for the year.

From our end, we provide email support. In some cases even telephone support. We make sure the domains don’t expire and that you can talk to a real person if you need to. We don’t charge for changing name servers or transfers away. The girls here often make changes to domains on behalf of our clients.

I know Godaddy charges $17.49. They buy at the same price as us pretty much. The reason they can afford to do this is the quantity of course, and also they get to sell hosting in the deal. Most domains are sold now as a taster for the hosting, they make no money in themselves.

What would you feel is a reasonable price for a .be domain?

Apologies if we suddently go offline or posts dissappear. We’re literally about to swap servers here for e3internet.

If that happens I’ll copy from database backup.

Thanks Angsuman, that’s useful feedback. Is that pretty much what the rest of you feel?

Duzins – that’s the price on their site at the moment for .be’s. They are sold by the Belgium Registry at a much higher price than .com’s and other gTLDs.

Heh – it’s a fair cop. I will bring down the price of the .be domains. We actually have a higher markup on them than our other domains. Our .com’s for example are £10 /yr and .co.uk £7 /yr.

Russian domains are our speciality here, very few people do those. I personally think a .ru is pretty much the ultimate when it comes to choosing your extension. Also stops people coming after your blog for legal proceedings… ;)

Anyway, we have the domain on the new platform now. I’m going to have to get that working! Cheers. Nick

If we get one more wanna.be application I swear I’ll…. ;)

Hi Triguenita

You need the international format. US is +1, full stop or period, then your regional and local no together without a space. Something like this: +1.1234123456

Hope that helps

Terry,

You need to use the form to order your domain.

Hi Harry,

Yes both phsource.be and cvms.be are not available. We are processing these in order but so are the hundreds of other registrars participating in this promotion. That means some of your applications will not be successful.

I wish we could send out emails on every unsuccessful application but with a queue of over 10’000 that is simply not practical. Our time is better spent on answering the questions from all the people we have successfully registered domains for.

I will write here again, please make sure that you use your correct information and a real email. There are many hundreds of applications that we are having to reject because of missing information. There are also many applications which never get confirmed by email (because the address does not exist).

The Belgium Registry demands that we only send them applications with real and full data on them. All others are rejected (where we try to correct them) or deleted.