Monday, June 09, 2008
.es domain: 123-reg Poor, EuroDNS Great
I was looking for nice brandable domain names and of course, the .es TLD of Spain provides the opportunity to create some nice one word domains, separated only by a ".". I've not seen them much in the SERPs but I do like the aesthetics of creative domain registrations so picked out a name I wanted to register.
123-Reg had a fairly prominent notice on its site saying that they now register .es domains for £14.99. I know lots of people have had problems with them before, but I've never had any real difficulties that I can think of with 123-reg, so went ahead and registered the domain. It was all very painless and went through like a normal domain registration.
A few hours later - probably because I've been spoilt by recent ultra quick domain setups - I tried the domain and it wasn't resolving. Then I went over to www.nic.es to check, and it was still saying the domain I registered was available. I kept an eye on it throughout the day and this didn't change. By this morning, I was getting a bit miffed. When I decide I want a domain, I find I want it under my control ASAP just in case someone else buys it before you have a chance. So I started looking for other registrars and found Nameroute. I tried to register the same domain as the original, but with a hyphen in it which I had planned to buy anyway. It went through, they sent me a username and password that didn't work and several hours later, the domain was still showing as available on nic.es
I was definitely fed up at this point, so I headed on over to EuroDNS where everything went smoothly and within 40 minutes both the domains were registered and listed as belong to me with nic.es.
I have no idea if the problems I had with 123reg and Nameroute were one offs, or maybe they are just a bit slow with .es domains, but from the three companies I have used in the last day or so, the only one I would recommend to you for registering .es domains is EuroDNS. They are affiliate links by the way - I wasn't going to bother signing up but when I think a company does a genuinly great job, I like to promote them.
123-Reg had a fairly prominent notice on its site saying that they now register .es domains for £14.99. I know lots of people have had problems with them before, but I've never had any real difficulties that I can think of with 123-reg, so went ahead and registered the domain. It was all very painless and went through like a normal domain registration.
A few hours later - probably because I've been spoilt by recent ultra quick domain setups - I tried the domain and it wasn't resolving. Then I went over to www.nic.es to check, and it was still saying the domain I registered was available. I kept an eye on it throughout the day and this didn't change. By this morning, I was getting a bit miffed. When I decide I want a domain, I find I want it under my control ASAP just in case someone else buys it before you have a chance. So I started looking for other registrars and found Nameroute. I tried to register the same domain as the original, but with a hyphen in it which I had planned to buy anyway. It went through, they sent me a username and password that didn't work and several hours later, the domain was still showing as available on nic.es
I was definitely fed up at this point, so I headed on over to EuroDNS where everything went smoothly and within 40 minutes both the domains were registered and listed as belong to me with nic.es.
I have no idea if the problems I had with 123reg and Nameroute were one offs, or maybe they are just a bit slow with .es domains, but from the three companies I have used in the last day or so, the only one I would recommend to you for registering .es domains is EuroDNS. They are affiliate links by the way - I wasn't going to bother signing up but when I think a company does a genuinly great job, I like to promote them.
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