Spain's tourism site getting lot of exposure

[seeker]

http://www.Spain.info

thats spain.info!

Anyhow, they are really heavily promotting this in mags, on TV etc...
I thought country names were reserved by afilias???

 

[NameRegistration]

I thought country names were reserved by afilias???

Yes, they are. They are reserved to the country’s governments. Spain.info it’s being developed by the Spanish Ministry of Economy.

 

[JohnGBUK]

What am I missing? Was this domain once for sale then or something?

 

[seeker]

no, you cant buy or reg country names .info
they are reserved by the registry, but aparently they are given to the countries themselves.

spain.info has been advertised on cnn, sky nes, euro news, and various magazines.
IMHO, bringing up awareness for .info

 

[NameRegistration]

Seeker is right, only countries themselves can ask for their own .info.
When I first heard about this (before the .info release) I thought .info will became very popular quickly as all the country names with the .com’s where owned by private parties and the .info will become the reference for all the country official websites. Apparently not many countries ask for their domain. :huh:

 

[mole]

Way to go, .INFO! :-D

 

[Bashar]

www.canada.info too

 

[Leading Names]

www.germany.info - Not so much a tourism orientated site but still a very nice site (operated by the German embassy)

You gotta love .info

- Rob

 

[Mr Webname]

www.transylvania.info :-D

 

[Leading Names]

www.southafrica.info :wink:

 

[unclewilco]

well WALES.INFO is owned by someone in Cirencester in England, *

i would be onto my AM(Assembly Member) in the monring, if they did not such long holidays.

now if i could only get hold of sheds.info my spiritual homeland.

*and before anyone says Wales is part of the UK, I know, iam just making a point! and will get my coat.

 

[dotNetKing]

Well, I picked up "spain".info when it dropped just over a year ago.

Although admittedly not in English.

But then English isn't the national language of Spain anyway, is it?

Are supposedly all language versions of a country reserved for a country, does any one know?

 

[NameRegistration]

I believe only the home language and the english version of the country are reserved.

 

[dotNetKing]

I believe only the home language and the english version of the country are reserved.

I guess that would be quite reasonable and practical to implement.

 

[NameRegistration]

I've checked two cases, germany/deutschland and spain/espana and it seems to work this way. I don’t know if they have done this for every country but it’s very likely that they have.

 

[peekaboo]

peru.info is promoted all over london subway system.

 

[dtobias]

That's for Peru, not Spain. And it's got one of those annoying redirecting splash pages that breaks the browser's back button, making it a pain to get out of the site.