Would you register .Wales and .Cymru domain names ?

Retired_member41 · Mar 2, 2015

The guy from nominet sorted it apparently. Just a name and address form I beleieve.

SF · Mar 2, 2015

Ive been at it again getting more dave cant help myself

SF · Mar 2, 2015

domains.wales
debtconsolidation.wales
personalloans.wales
unsecuredloans.wales
roulette.wales
blackjack.wales
studentloans.wales
injurycompensation.wales
ppiclaims.wales
badcredit.wales

SF · Mar 2, 2015

Anyone built a website yet?

suggs · Mar 3, 2015

Not built a site yet but ive had an offer for reg.wales on sedo

DaveP · Mar 3, 2015

SF said:
Anyone built a website yet?

Soon my friend. Soon..

Admin · Mar 3, 2015

Anyone still buying them? I can still see "good ones" but are they all bad ones really as not going to sell / be worthwhile developing?

Do you think Google will give priority to .WALES domains for searches in Wales?

Admin

martin-s · Mar 3, 2015

The Welsh are passionately Welsh.

Not many of us are passionately European!

Admin · Mar 3, 2015

haha

interesting to see a Chinese company buying some.

I bought 5 more, time to stop.

Admin

Admin · Mar 4, 2015

30 reasons you should never visit Wales:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/jamiejones/reasons-you-should-never-visit-wales#.xqpL8KO7q

Sam · Mar 4, 2015

admin said:
haha

interesting to see a Chinese company buying some.

I bought 5 more, time to stop.

Admin

What did you get?

Systreg · Mar 4, 2015

I've regged one domain and I think that'll be the only one for me at €25 a pop, the .cymru of it was already regged, I got RenewableEnergy.wales

Murray · Mar 4, 2015

Just got another one for some reason

your.wales

AssetDomains · Mar 4, 2015

Systreg said:
I've regged one domain and I think that'll be the only one for me at €25 a pop, the .cymru of it was already regged, I got RenewableEnergy.wales

Can't believe I'm recommending these guys but 1and1 were about £8

Systreg · Mar 4, 2015

I didn't shop around for the best price, I just used DomainMonster as I already have an account with them.

Retired_member41 · Mar 4, 2015

Pricing for icann members is only £7.50 so most registrars making a killing.

Retired_member41 · Mar 4, 2015

It costs $3500 to send your application, which is non refundable and $4000 a year

I think any organised registrar would gain membership but you would have to be pretty commercial to recoup the yearly fee lol

DaveP · Mar 4, 2015

Caz said:
It costs $3500 to send your application, which is non refundable and $4000 a year

I think any organised registrar would gain membership but you would have to be pretty commercial to recoup the yearly fee lol

Much more to it than that. https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/financials-55-2012-02-25-en

For example:

For applicants seeking initial accreditation, demonstration of the ability to procure liquid capital immediately available in the applicant's name at the commencement of the accreditation period in an amount of US$70,000 or more will be deemed adequate, although a lesser amount will be accepted upon a showing that in the circumstances the applicant has adequate liquid working capital.

Retired_member41 · Mar 4, 2015

A couple of credit cards would sort that criteria lol

You could always in any application stipulate how your company would run and at what level, you could get away with very little liquid assets, but is the $3500 NON refundable fee worth the risk lol

I guess you could call a few people like you do with a planning application and make sure its has the green light before applying?

Best to just be a reseller until you manage that many the sums add up to gain membership, same as nominet.

Retired_member41 · Mar 4, 2015

Tiered membership was always on the cards imo, when catching is stopped, that's when more changes will hit.

They only started the wales reseller service for nominet members as they had NO icann members based in Wales

So as to make it all pretty and tick boxed.