Costa Rica

zapdaddy · 04-19-2010, 05:51 PM

I am looking for information on.cr domains
If anyone has any experience with registering, registrars, sales...
Please let me know

Pichichi · 04-19-2010, 06:57 PM

Looks like being an interesting market. 1,500,000 Internet users as of Sept/09, 35.3% penetration, per ITU (Mexico and Central America Internet Usage - Population Statistics) is a good quantity.

I could not find any .cr sales (no sales reported along this year at dnjournal).

About a registar, as usual for american cctlds, the best is going to the official registar, in this case nic.cr (NIC - Internet Costa Rica).

Requirements:

second level (.cr): Trade mark owning, national identity document.
third level (.co.cr): Trade mark owning, national identity document.

zapdaddy · 04-27-2010, 01:29 AM

Thanks for the input Pichichi. I will look into this further.

ImFM · 04-28-2010, 10:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zapdaddy

I am looking for information on.cr domains
If anyone has any experience with registering, registrars, sales...
Please let me know

I found registrations through nic.cr relatively easy and I now own a few .CR domains. I registered them when the registry introduced second level domains.

However I hear that an ownership transfer in the case of a sale can be extremely painful. So painful that in the case that I heard about the buyer and seller decided to delete and re-register the domain instead. Hopefully this has changed in the mean time.

zapdaddy · 04-29-2010, 05:51 AM

Delete and reregister! That sounds risky.
If I may ask what are you doing with the domains you registered?

ImFM · 04-29-2010, 06:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zapdaddy

Delete and reregister! That sounds risky.
If I may ask what are you doing with the domains you registered?

It sounds very risky indeed - you need to get the timing right ;-)

I just checked and even though I thought we had more we actually only have two .CR domains at the moment. Both are slated for development with a local partner but are parked in the mean time.

Pichichi · 04-30-2010, 05:14 PM

and how much traffic do they have those domains? is it local traffic?

ImFM · 04-30-2010, 06:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pichichi

and how much traffic do they have those domains? is it local traffic?

Nothing worth mentioning on my second level domains - I would still consider this speculative at this point. With development you may be able to get some traffic. The domains are Spanish language domains.

Google for example still uses google.co.cr and appears not have registered google.cr yet.

zapdaddy · 05-03-2010, 04:37 AM

Thinking I will grab a few and see if I can get them indexed. Seems to be quite a few very good domains available. Maybe I will get Google.cr (kidding

)

Pichichi · 05-04-2010, 05:38 PM

dont forget to comment here with us the result of your experiment with .cr domains, it is always interesting to learn this kind of things.

04-19-2010, 05:51 PM	#1 (permalink)
zapdaddy Status: Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 179	Costa Rica I am looking for information on.cr domains If anyone has any experience with registering, registrars, sales... Please let me know

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Pichichi Status: Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 160	Re: Costa Rica Looks like being an interesting market. 1,500,000 Internet users as of Sept/09, 35.3% penetration, per ITU (Mexico and Central America Internet Usage - Population Statistics) is a good quantity. I could not find any .cr sales (no sales reported along this year at dnjournal). About a registar, as usual for american cctlds, the best is going to the official registar, in this case nic.cr (NIC - Internet Costa Rica). Requirements: second level (.cr): Trade mark owning, national identity document. third level (.co.cr): Trade mark owning, national identity document. __________________ \| PlanetaWebs.com \| Zitemaps.com - Free sitemap generator \|

04-27-2010, 01:29 AM	#3 (permalink)
zapdaddy Status: Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 179	Re: Costa Rica Thanks for the input Pichichi. I will look into this further.

04-29-2010, 05:51 AM	#5 (permalink)
zapdaddy Status: Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 179	Re: Costa Rica Delete and reregister! That sounds risky. If I may ask what are you doing with the domains you registered?

04-30-2010, 05:14 PM	#7 (permalink)
Pichichi Status: Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 160	Re: Costa Rica and how much traffic do they have those domains? is it local traffic? __________________ \| PlanetaWebs.com \| Zitemaps.com - Free sitemap generator \|

05-03-2010, 04:37 AM	#9 (permalink)
zapdaddy Status: Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 179	Re: Costa Rica Thinking I will grab a few and see if I can get them indexed. Seems to be quite a few very good domains available. Maybe I will get Google.cr (kidding)

05-04-2010, 05:38 PM	#10 (permalink)
Pichichi Status: Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 160	Re: Costa Rica dont forget to comment here with us the result of your experiment with .cr domains, it is always interesting to learn this kind of things. __________________ \| PlanetaWebs.com \| Zitemaps.com - Free sitemap generator \|

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