.es - Boom or Bust?

[sealover]

i just got a e-mail from eurodns saying that the .es landruch is over, but I still have 4 domains in the sunrise section and they're available on nic.es(with many applications).
so is eurodns giving up on those domains?

 

[Fredo]

i just got a e-mail from eurodns saying that the .es landruch is over, but I still have 4 domains in the sunrise section and they're available on nic.es(with many applications).
so is eurodns giving up on those domains?

Same for me. I would like to know if they are domains that eurodns didn't manage to reg for us or if they are in a kind of pending status.

 

[hugegrowth]

It doesn't matter how many people in the world speak Spanish, they are not in Spain. Why should an Argentinian use .es for his local market? Spanish market is defined by the number of people using Internet in Spain and nowhere else.

I think there is some validity to that idea, but there isn't a wall around Spain blocking all .es websites from being accessed outside too. Here's an example, for yahoo.ca (Canada), you can search in french language. You can search "all the web", or "french language sites", or "canada sites". I am sure a lot of .fr (France) sites get picked up under "french language sites", so there you will have French speaking canadians finding sites from France. Then they become familiar with the .fr domain extension and may try some type ins for french word sites, and it leads on and on. In advanced search you can or will be able to get returns for websites with only .ca or .fr or .es extension. It's too early to tell for sure but there should be some cross over traffic for different countries that speak the same language.

 

[hollo]

I think there is some validity to that idea, but there isn't a wall around Spain blocking all .es websites from being accessed outside too. Here's an example, for yahoo.ca (Canada), you can search in french language. You can search "all the web", or "french language sites", or "canada sites". I am sure a lot of .fr (France) sites get picked up under "french language sites", so there you will have French speaking canadians finding sites from France. Then they become familiar with the .fr domain extension and may try some type ins for french word sites, and it leads on and on. In advanced search you can or will be able to get returns for websites with only .ca or .fr or .es extension. It's too early to tell for sure but there should be some cross over traffic for different countries that speak the same language.

Yes, I agree with you. I own a .com.es that receives 80% of traffic from Latin America (all type-ins). The key is that Spanish speaking market is 400 million, so somebody will try the .com.ar extension, then .com.mx, and then the .es.

 

[sealover]

I'm waiting for freedy to respond to my question:
Has eurodns given up on .es domains from sunrise period?

 

[Fredo]

I don't think it is up to Freddy now, seems all the application are at the spanish registry and they are allocating the domains one by one. Apparently there was a huge demand coming from the US and they received a massive amount of multiple applications for the same domains... we will see in the next few days... I am still waiting for 3 of them...

 

[dnbidder]

what is happing about our refunds? I havnt heard anything

 

[sealover]

I'm also curious to know when is the final date we get refunds for non-regged domains.

 

[Premiumhosted]

Havn't got one domain yet, and out of my 6 I'm waiting on, DD24 just confirmed I didn't get one. So 5 remaining, if I don't get 1 I will be ticked!

 

[FreddyS]

hi sealover/fredo.
the domains that are still in pending status got more then one application. earlier in this tread someone posted a link to check the status.
this domains are still shown as free on nic.es, but in our availablility-check we mark them as taken, I think customers are already confused enough with this landrush. We still get confirmations from the landrush, I think it would be wrong to close now all orders.

hi dnbidder,
the refunds should be soon in your account, I dont know when. For the moment there are to much domains still being confirmed by the registry. For all that want to spend the refunds with us I can switch the accounts manually to invoice-mode to compensate a bit the delay. so you will be not asked for a creditcard.

Freddy

 

[sealover]

ok, so there remains a hope for the ones still free on nic.es (with applications).
but I have one domain is the sunrise that is taken in the registry so I would like a refund for it on my credit card, I think everyone wants these refunds to take place asap.
thanks!

 

[FreddyS]

pls reply to the email that you got with the invoice with your request.
the mail will arrive in the right department, they will take care.
our developers are working on an automatic system for the refunds.

 

[fab]

Originally Posted by sealover
i just got a e-mail from eurodns saying that the .es landruch is over, but I still have 4 domains in the sunrise section and they're available on nic.es(with many applications).
so is eurodns giving up on those domains?

Same for me. I would like to know if they are domains that eurodns didn't manage to reg for us or if they are in a kind of pending status.

pls reply to the email that you got with the invoice with your request.
the mail will arrive in the right department, they will take care.
our developers are working on an automatic system for the refunds.

Just got this e-mail:

Dear EuroDNS Customer

Thanks for your message

Your Domain Names were processed by EuroDNS however the Registry managed a queue of applications for some cases
In case of Registry rejections EuroDNS will refund you next month and you will be notified

Best wishes
EuroDNS support
Christian

> To whom It May Concern:
>
> I still have 10 domains listed as sunrise. Could you please either see
> if you can register any or all of them, or send me a refund.
>
>
>

 

[Premiumhosted]

Got one awesome .es domain today! True premium!!! Thank you DD24, I just hope I get my other 4 still pending!

 

[fab]

Freddy, I still have 10 domains in Sunrise. When will this all be settled?

 

[Premiumhosted]

Freddy, I still have 10 domains in Sunrise. When will this all be settled?

I have 4 pending at DD24 as well...

They said it could take up to 48 days to resolve.

-Jarrod

 

[namewaiter]

here's the message i received today...

Thanks for your message
We will refund you as explained on our website (see the Payment information item)
If you are agree you can keep the 100% amount of rejected pre registration orders as credit line for your next purchases
http://www.eurodns.com/info/payment/index.php for further details
Best wishes

EuroDNS support
Christian

And their payment page says refunds won't occur for 120 days due to security reasons? Also I'm not sure how to let them know what I want an account credit, a credit card refund or a check?

 

[fab]

I think this is totally ridiculous. With GoDaddy, if a registration doesn't go through, they credit my card within a few days.

 

[dnbidder]

for every name you have in your sunrise account that you didnt get,
euro dns are taking 10 euros per name and refund the rest

I have 39 in sunrise so will lose 390 Euros

My friend has 233 in sunrise so hes gunna lose 2330 euros

Is this a joke or what

can we have a clear answer from freddy on what is happing with the refunds.

What is the incentive for them to get names if there going to get money no matter what happerns

 

[fab]

for every name you have in your sunrise account that you didnt get,
euro dns are taking 10 euros per name and refund the rest

That's almost the entire fee. I didn't hear anything like that up until now.