65 responses so far ↓

• 1 Nick // Nov 1, 2005 at 1:50 pm

  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

• 2 Robert Santiago // Nov 1, 2005 at 7:57 pm

  ThatsBobWithA.be

• 3 NonStuff » Blog Archive » Free Belgium domain names // Nov 1, 2005 at 9:44 pm

  [...] Register here. [...]

• 4 Leo // Nov 1, 2005 at 9:55 pm

  would.be
  could.be
  should.be
  ….

• 5 Krooner // Nov 1, 2005 at 10:28 pm

  can.be
  never.be
  will.be

• 6 jvangorp // Nov 1, 2005 at 10:31 pm

  EricTheHalfA.be

• 7 legion3030 // Nov 1, 2005 at 10:59 pm

  convict-lib.be

  eh…close enough

• 8 Cathal Connollys // Nov 1, 2005 at 11:05 pm

  free .be domains

• 9 cooper // Nov 1, 2005 at 11:06 pm

  Coopershould.be
  coopershouldnt.be
  heh heh heh…

• 10 Nick // Nov 1, 2005 at 11:25 pm

  Sorry guys, we have got a bit over-stretched here with requests. We are moving the site/form to a faster server and will re-open this shortly.

  It seems that several (all) of the other registrars that were offering this have also stopped, which contributed to our load here.

• 11 Travis // Nov 1, 2005 at 11:54 pm

  Dang, I wanted one :( Just have to wait.

• 12 Scot // Nov 2, 2005 at 12:01 am

  There is always “worker.be” for those with day jobs…

• 13 Jared // Nov 2, 2005 at 12:15 am

  tobeornotto.be

• 14 Dominios gratuitos (de verdade) at Invoking ancient process // Nov 2, 2005 at 1:21 am

  [...] Deu a louca na bélgica: Os dominios .be estão gratúitos por um ano até o final de 2005. Quem quiser arriscar uma tentativa, pode registrar o seu brinquedo aqui. Eu já peguei o caffo.be

• 15 Biff // Nov 2, 2005 at 5:37 am

  so.be

• 16 Tech Ramble » Blog Archive » Free .be domains for one year // Nov 2, 2005 at 8:35 am

  [...] The Belgium domain name registry is giving out free .be domains to anyone until January 31st, 2006. [...]

• 17 Andrew Shaw // Nov 2, 2005 at 9:24 am

  BeAllThatYouCan.Be
  ToBeOrNotTo.Be

• 18 rozzo // Nov 2, 2005 at 11:57 am

  wanna.be
  idontwanna.be

• 19 Tijd // Nov 2, 2005 at 1:40 pm

  (Little different then rozzo’s)

  http://www.anna.be

• 20 Free .be domains! « Tom Raftery’s I.T. views // Nov 2, 2005 at 2:02 pm

  [...] Well, you can now register a .be domain, absolutely free! This is a promotion by the Belgian Domain Registry and it goes on until 31st of January 2006. [...]

• 21 Cesar // Nov 2, 2005 at 2:21 pm

  Needed by me

• 22 missed // Nov 2, 2005 at 2:41 pm

  Free Belgium .be domains for all

  Free Belgium .be domains for all: “” (Via del.icio.us/popular.)…

• 23 Duzins // Nov 2, 2005 at 4:51 pm

  LOL Reading these comments was great. Top honors go to bobwitha.be I almost spit my diet coke out all over my laptop!

  robyn

• 24 Angsuman Chakraborty // Nov 2, 2005 at 5:07 pm

  ba.be

  OK, I got two more too, not sure if I should mention them ;)

• 25 Duzins // Nov 2, 2005 at 5:57 pm

  ha ha, you must. I just won’t take a drink b4 reading it this time.

• 26 Draw a line for your life » WhateverYouWantTo.be // Nov 2, 2005 at 5:58 pm

  [...] After reading the post Free Belgium .be domains for all, I am thinking what domain name I should try out. Not could.be, should.be or wanna.be, I think, to enjoy the life, just do “WhateverYouWantTo.be”. [...]

• 27 Angsuman Chakraborty // Nov 2, 2005 at 7:17 pm

  As I said they are NSFW. Suffice it to say they rhyme with cu.be.

• 28 Nick // Nov 2, 2005 at 7:24 pm

  Update here Thanks

• 29 Duzins // Nov 2, 2005 at 7:30 pm

  LOL, now you’re nasty-as-you-wanna.be

  All kidding aside, does it make sense to register a domain you will have to renew for FAR higher than the going rate?

• 30 Nick // Nov 2, 2005 at 7:46 pm

  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?

• 31 Angsuman Chakraborty // Nov 2, 2005 at 7:55 pm

  Here are few more:

  tu.be
  stro.be
  pro.be
  ro.be

  But jokes aside I remember buying taragana.com initially for 70$ for 2 years. Yes as far as .be domains are concerned I think you are chargeing less than godaddy, which pretty much should mean everybody else.

  BTW: How long does the free part last?

• 32 Nick // Nov 2, 2005 at 7:56 pm

  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.

• 33 Nick // Nov 2, 2005 at 8:00 pm

  Heh - Yes Angsuman, the prices have certainly come down. At the company I worked at in ‘97, we got our domain by emailing the owner of the local ISP. It cost about £250!

  We are working here on automating things more - that brings the costs down. I do like my staff (and me) being able to give a high level of support to our clients. You can never automate that really, or you end up like Easyspace (I swear they have their customer support manned by a random generator script ;)

• 34 Duzins // Nov 2, 2005 at 8:05 pm

  Gosh, I thought godaddy sold theirs for like $7 or $8 a domain?

  I am probably just TOTALLY uninformed

• 35 Angsuman Chakraborty // Nov 2, 2005 at 8:05 pm

  Oops. I didn’t read it properly. Your one year price actually translates to 29$.

  I agree with Duzins that it is significantly higher than baseline rate of Godaddy.

  Normally services from domain registrar don’t matter much to most people. Also it is mostly a one time effort.

  Personally I think 18-20 $ (USD) would be the best that is bearable even with drop-dead-service.

• 36 Nick // Nov 2, 2005 at 8:32 pm

  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.

• 37 Duzins // Nov 2, 2005 at 8:33 pm

  gotcha :) sorry

• 38 Duzins // Nov 2, 2005 at 8:37 pm

  Well, here’s the thing. If that is comparable with godaddy, arguably who you’re going to be compared to, then having a year free, great service, and then the next year at normal, avg prices, I say “good deal”

• 39 Angsuman Chakraborty // Nov 2, 2005 at 8:40 pm

  IMHO domain business is more driven by volume than profit per domain. Automation is pretty much required to survive.

  Most domain registrars try to make money through add-on services like web-hosting etc.

  I see .in domains too selling at a higher price after privatisation. At one time they were free for Indian businesses.

  AFAIAC a .com domain sounds better than .be or .it or .in :)

• 40 Nick // Nov 2, 2005 at 8:45 pm

  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

• 41 Duzins // Nov 2, 2005 at 8:48 pm

  I’m just starting to get used to seeing these .whatevers so I am beginning to see a neat trend in getting away from the dot com.

  I just might get one. Gotta figure out what I wanna.be now

• 42 Nick // Nov 2, 2005 at 8:54 pm

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

• 43 theguy // Nov 2, 2005 at 10:39 pm

  theykilledkiller.be

• 44 John_b // Nov 3, 2005 at 2:44 am

  Here are few more:

  gentuzo.be
  miserver.be
  miradiodigital.be
  milucha.be

• 45 aaa@aa.be // Nov 3, 2005 at 3:02 pm

  putalocura.be
  alucinavecina.be
  jsa.be

• 46 Third3ye // Nov 3, 2005 at 5:36 pm

  Crap! Warhousing bastards might get me domain! :S Might I add: NOOOOOO…!

• 47 TimRogers // Nov 3, 2005 at 10:15 pm

  I’ve got a domain in mind, I know the announcement is up tonight, but when will the actual form be back?

• 48 Pete // Nov 4, 2005 at 12:26 am

  The one I thought of has been taken. Available yesterday, gone today. It’s now parked at sedo. Guess that’s where most of them will end up.

• 49 Vértigo 2.0 // Nov 4, 2005 at 1:40 pm

  Consigue tu dominio .be gratis

  … Los interesados en tener vuestro dominio Belga grauitos podéis hacerlo desde esta página que si bien hace unos días no funcionaba (por eso no he escrito este post antes…

• 50 » Free .be Domains - Ambot ah! [ technology news and reviews ] // Nov 4, 2005 at 4:39 pm

  [...] Apparently the Belgium Registry wants to commercialize their ccTLD, hence the free giveaways for the first year. Regular price is about 16.50 or about USD $20. Here are some nice suggestions for a possible domain: [...]

• 51 Nick // Nov 4, 2005 at 9:53 pm

  .BE day (II) will be open tomorrow 1pm GMT +3.
  You can view the update here.

• 52 carisoprodol // Nov 7, 2005 at 2:09 am

  >> How do we know that our request has been accepted?
  too it is interesting

• 53 Sri’s Blog » links for 2005-11-02 // Nov 10, 2005 at 3:47 pm

  [...] Free Belgium .be domains for all © 300km North of Moscow Now you have your chance to own a little part of Belgium. Their Registry (.be) is promoting their TLD extension by offering completely free registration from today to the 31st of January 2006. (tags: .be domains) [...]

• 54 Phong Nguyen // Nov 13, 2005 at 9:55 am

  http://www.baihathay.be Please !

• 55 ngocthuong // Nov 13, 2005 at 10:09 am

  Please send me this address i want use it for Music and Entertainement
  http://www.baihatviet.be/

• 56 phoneboy // Nov 14, 2005 at 7:34 am

  tobeornoto.be

• 57 Ravi Khalsa // Nov 14, 2005 at 1:36 pm

  new.be

• 58 Triguenita // Nov 16, 2005 at 6:58 am

  Whe registering it keeps telling me phone incorrect.
  I’m in the USA. Anyone has any suggestions on the formats they used?

• 59 Nick // Nov 16, 2005 at 12:14 pm

  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.

• 60 TechZap // Nov 16, 2005 at 9:31 pm

  [...] More info [...]

• 61 haoming // Nov 18, 2005 at 6:30 am

  phoenixgamers.be please

• 62 misza // Nov 18, 2005 at 2:48 pm

  “the best beer in the world.” - funny ;)

• 63 Harry // Nov 18, 2005 at 11:51 pm

  I’ve registered some domains and the 4th one, 6th one, 7th one, and 8th one have arrived. The rest have not. The earlier ones hadn’t arrived neither for some strange reason. I thought you processed the orders in order.

  My domains include srouce.be, theclass.be, cforums.be, and fforums.be. Other ones that I supposedly have registered include phsource.be (before all of the ones listed above) and cvms.be (my 10th).

• 64 Nick // Nov 19, 2005 at 1:24 pm

  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.

• 65 Everyone Has One » Blog Archive » ↑↓ Free Belgium .be domains for all // Dec 9, 2005 at 5:03 pm

  [...] The good: .be domains are being given out for free (see Free Belgium .be domains) and it is easy to come up with a nice phrase ending in .be. How about [...]