Help! No habla espanol sorry

[italiandragon]

Hola,

I`m sorry but y no habla espanol.

I`m trying to understand if the spanish domains has changed lately with those special characters:

á, é, Ã*, ñ, ó, ú and ü


I wonder for example if espana.com would be not worth anymore as much as before and the most valuable would be españa.com ?

Same for all other main words....how do you write "noticias" ?

And I`d really appreciate if anyone would point me to a list of Spanish top generic names.

Also If the special characters are now required, I`d love to know where to check the spanish grammar.

Thank you

[draggar]

I don't think you can get España.com - I tried with a few domains that required the ñ but couldn't get it (I tried with two registrars). I think it has to be a cc.tld (.es?).
This could be interesting if someone needs to register something like venteyunoaños.com (21 years, but venteyunoanos.com means 21 anuses...).

IMO - there will be a market for the 26-characterized domains, it may not be as big as España.es, but espana.com would get a lot of English (USA, UK, Australia etc..) traffic which right now is still the largest dempgraphic.

IMO - there is (or will be very soon) demand for spanish.com domains as that demographic grows, especially in the US (go to Miami (Hialeah more specifically) if you don't believe me.

[Mediamarket]

Hello,

España.com is already registered - For international characters they are registered using the puny code equivalent, in this case it would be xn--espaa-rta.com. If you try to put them in with accents or ñ then they won't be recognized.

I think it will be some time before we see mass use of the latin characters but I am a believer that spanish names will be hot in the future - sure don't seem to be know though and especially not IDNs.

Cheers

[draggar]

It's odd because I see .com and other TLDs with characters like ñ, é, and æ

[Mediamarket]

What I meant was that the characters aren't recognized when you try to register them at your registrar but when you put them in your browser they convert to the punycode and so there are many names out there using them.

The ones I have get very little to no traffic even for good names.

Cheers

[mibworld]

Most spanish people are used to type url's with the 26 characters of english alphabet, so they would most likely type espana.com than españa.com. Also, there are many spanish speakers in countries like usa where they don't have (easy) access to keyboards with ñ and accents. I don't see a strong demand for IDN for spanish words, but of course it could change in the future.

[therunner]

I agree with you mibworld, some of the Spanish speaker don’t have the idea to use and change the English keyboard. The right thing could be to spell and write the right Spanish word and register it but the big problem you could face is this: the email; it is not the same when we memorize an email address with regular characters than puny code; for example abc@espana.com is much easier than abc@xn--espaa-rta.com. Imagine to spell and say to a no Spanish customer this address With the time, this will be fixed, but time and business are money

[HomerJ]

2-3 years on from this discussion, has anything changed, or are things the same? I would expect there to be more access to the keyboards with special characters now (i know there are in other languages). Are most Spanish speakers using keyboards with spanish characters now, or still typing in the standard western alphabet?