A .BE Goodbye / Farewll RECAP

[Sam]

As you may have known, the .be registry conducted a nice FreeBe.Be promotion last year. You could register UNLIMITED domains in the .be namespace for free. It was truly unheard of. An ESTABLISHED extention giving away free names

Post your TOTAL Earnings from the great .be landgrab. Include parking figures and sale figures.

I know this one lucky fellow who registered a free .be and sold it for over 3000 EUROS. Where is he ? :bah:

Any nice stories to share?

 

[RegFee]

I found and registered a few names that had Netherlands overture w/ ext., and they got decent traffic, but I only renewed the ones that made regfee+ (2 of them). One has made $25.64, the other, $31.11 in parking at NameDrive. I paid around $10 each to renew them, I think, so $35+ profit for something sitting around doing nothing isn't bad. If only I had dedicated a little more time to finding some good names, but I didn't really take .be's seriously until I checked my parking stats!

 

[Kate]

I sold a few for high $$$. A few have interesting traffic.
It's a good TLD even without the free promo but ccTLDs are not for everyone :gl:

 

[dongan]

i haven't gained. so dropped around 9 names.

 

[tetrapak]

Low xxx$ from adsense (minisites) and namedrive (typos) revenue.

 

[traderonline]

i registered 10 .be domains last year. most of them are expired but within the REDEMPTIONPERIOD. is it worth selling them ?

 

[Premium]

Made over $300 from them.. let them all drop though and just a couple days ago I registered the good ones again

 

[cache]

let all my .be expired.

 

[namebug]

Where's the cheapest place to registers .bes now ? Most places look to be in the 14~17 Euro range.

 

[diddie]

Renewed around 30 of them, will renew 20 more...

Earnings form parking around $1,5K
Earning from sales: around $350

but i have to add, i learned a lot from that experience, i felt like a domain taster, i was able to see what get traffic and what not, it was a great experience IMO. Thanks Belgium !!

namebug: .BE reg at ovh.com its around 9 euros

 

[namebug]

Thanks Did, sexy to order in French, too bad the $ is getting weaker .

 

[dnb8]

Thanks Did, sexy to order in French, too bad the $ is getting weaker .

here you have in english http://www.ovh.com/en/

 

[gazzip]

Renewed around 30 of them, will renew 20 more...

Earnings form parking around $1,5K
Earning from sales: around $350

Wow, thats a great result for a bunch of free.be's :tu:

I started with 10, dropped 9 and renewed 1 - I did have an offer of £500 on it but turned it down - maybe I should have took it ? Time will tell !

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[Jeffrey]

I had about 30 .BEs but did not renewed all of them, practically no traffic, no offers.

 

[diddie]

Wow, thats a great result for a bunch of free.be's :tu:

I started with 10, dropped 9 and renewed 1 - I did have an offer of £500 on it but turned it down - maybe I should have took it ? Time will tell !

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nice too, can you tell what domain is it ?

i got one domain having from 50 to 70 visitors daily, everyday strong, but have to give it back to the company as it was a typo, at least they didn't sued me...

 

[mojojo]

all my be's gone by the wind.

 

[vrcanada]

.be experience was interesting.
like someone here mentioned .. was a domain tasting opportunity.
i'm likely to let mine expire next year though.
has anyone seen the new .be terms? see below.

vrc.

Dear .be domain name holder,

DNS BE is the manager of the .be domain name zone. U are receiving this
message because you are the holder of one or more .be domain names. If
you would like to know more about DNS BE and its role, you are kindly
invited to visit our website at www.dns.be.

DNS BE has prepared a new version (4.0) of the terms and conditions of
domain name registrations under the .BE domain. The current version of
the terms and conditions should normally have been presented for
acceptation by your registration agent at the time of registration of
your .be domain.


The new version of the terms and conditions contains a number of important
changes:

- replacement of the terms "licence" and "licensee" by a more
accurate terminology;

- reduction of the delay for execution of decisions within the
framework of the alternative dispute resolution (15 days instead of
30 working days);

- introduction of a rule for the recovery of costs with regards to
the alternative dispute resolution;

- introduction of the principle that cybersquatters will have to
intervene indirectly for a part of the costs of the alternative
dispute resolution.

The new version of the terms and conditions will enter in force on 15
March 2007 and will from that date apply to all registered .be domains
and their respective holders.

With kind regards,

DNS BE Team

 

[Sam]

I guess its time to share my .be success story

After regging thousands of .be domains (haha i am proud of that ), my total sales was:

$1461 , parking earnings was around $1000. So good old $2.4k from beligum registry! Thanks!

 

[diddie]

i regged around 1200-1300 domains for myself

nice earnings sam !