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I received a mail from Dynadot that Spanish .info international domain names are open for registration. I did not think much, went ahead and registered corazón.info. Do you think it is worth pursuing?

Looks like my question answered itself. I went back to check a few keywords and all were taken, including one which was still free in .net (I corrected that). I looked:

España, español, española, niño, niña, cañon...

María...

Guess I was lucky with corazón. I will keep it.

Update: I checked again and I didn't get corazón.info.

The facturation item says:

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domain registration xn--corazn-fxa.info
duration 1 year ($8.99)
result Not Available

So it looks like what I did was a pre-order and it didn't go through. From the Dynadot FAQ:

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* There may be more than one customer trying to pre-order the same domain as you. If Dynadot gets the domain, it will be randomly assigned to one of the pre-orders. For example, if there are 10 pre-orders for a domain, each pre-order will have a 1 in 10 chance of getting the domain.

* Because the central registry is not accepting the Spanish language tag yet, we always return "available" for Spanish INFO IDN searches. However, there are some Spanish words that have already been registered using other language tags. Several of the accented characters in Spanish also exist in other languages. So please check that your domain has not been registered using another language tag.

* If for any of the above reasons we cannot fulfill your preorder, you will receive a Dynadot account credit. Sorry, we cannot provide refunds on failed pre-orders.

I did get the credit. Disappointed :(

Very difficult to get these domains.... I have niña.net and several other good dot net, info, org, and biz. The best Spanish IDN dot coms were gone long before I looked.

I think corazón.info is quite good. The term \'heart\' could lend itself well to a dating site. But if it is a choice between .info and .net, I\'d take the .net every time.