Comments on: Free .be domain names

Free .be domain names

Count Ziggurat — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 14:07:33 -0800

Belgian authorities allow free registration of .be domain names in a temporary promotion. Hilarity ensues. (apparently metafilter.be is still available)

By: HuronBob

HuronBob — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 14:24:44 -0800

A russian (.ru) site, that can't seem to respond well, registering .be domains (well, sort of, maybe, but maybe not)... I need this why?

By: Eideteker

Eideteker — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 14:25:51 -0800

whomightyou.be was still available, but if I have to give my real information... I don't know. Can I anonymize the whois lookup?

By: Faint of Butt

Faint of Butt — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 14:39:25 -0800

thethingthatshouldnot.be

By: carter

carter — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 14:40:31 -0800

doobiedoobiedo.be?

By: clevershark

clevershark — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 14:40:58 -0800

tobeornotto.be was already taken, as was 2beornot2.be :(

By: moonbird

moonbird — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 14:48:05 -0800

anyone checking to see if this is legit? I'm with HuronBob, it's a bit of gamble.

By: Biblio

Biblio — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 14:48:11 -0800

namedheshouldnot.be - the official site of Dark Lords everywhere!

By: gren

gren — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 14:55:06 -0800

I went to get my family name (being a Belge family) only to find it was taken a couple days ago...dns.be showed that my cousin snagged it, so it stays in the family!! Yay!!

By: sdrawkcab

sdrawkcab — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 14:59:06 -0800

glo.be was the one I wanted, but it's been taken. Alas.

By: Pretty_Generic

Pretty_Generic — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 15:12:34 -0800

I now own losttri.be and gelatinouscu.be. Thank you!

By: fire&wings

fire&wings — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 15:14:35 -0800

I somewhat agree with his opinions on Leffe.

By: delmoi

delmoi — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 15:16:35 -0800

Yeah, I'm not exactly planning on giving all my personal info to the Russian mafia Where is the official site for this? The Belgians rather stupidly sold nic.be to someone, there actual site seems to be here, and there is no news item about this promotion. Once an affiliate registers with Tucows to register domain names, the marginal price is quite low, I think it's like a quarter or something crazy like that (but you have to pay quite a bit to start selling domains). It's a great deal for hosting companies, etc. As you can see here tucows is licensed to resell .be domains. But does tucows even know about this Russian site? They might, or they might not. This company might legitimately just want to wait a year and then start charging you for your domain, or they may be after personal info. Either way, they seem to be lying.

By: Pretty_Generic

Pretty_Generic — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 15:20:22 -0800

Um, does this look like a spammer to you? There's no doubt in my mind that this is genuine.

By: jennyb

jennyb — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 15:22:30 -0800

jenny.be was not available. Drat!

By: Tryptophan-5ht

Tryptophan-5ht — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 15:24:49 -0800

pu.be taken :(

By: delmoi

delmoi — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 15:24:49 -0800

Gandi.net, which has been mentioned here on metafilter as a good registrar is an offical licensee of dns.be (see here. Right now they are selling .be at a price of six euros, rather then 12. Why?

From the 1st November 2005 to the 31 January 2006, DNS.BE (the registry in charge of .BE) has decreased the price to register a .BE domain name by €6. Gandi, an accredited registrar, has decided to participate in this promotion and has likewise decreased its own price from €12 to €6 during this period. Note that you can register as many domains as you want and that this promotion does not apply to .BE domain name renewals.

So what is dns.be's regular price?

By: teece

teece — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 15:28:10 -0800

So.be needs to get in on this action.

By: allen.spaulding

allen.spaulding — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 15:29:54 -0800

damn, someone got honesta.be

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 15:35:01 -0800

If I can't have jewjew.be I don't wanna play.

By: loquax

loquax — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 15:36:00 -0800

I think I got i8a.be

By: birdherder

birdherder — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 15:39:08 -0800

I just registered my name via EuroDNS and seems a little less sketchy than the e3internet.ru link on the post. I almost registered justfuck.it as well but it requires EU citizenship or business address and 55€.

By: Asparagirl

Asparagirl — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 15:57:32 -0800

asleeping.be is available to any Harold Arlen fans who want it...

By: squidlarkin

squidlarkin — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 16:06:53 -0800

Argh! Who got outgra.be?

By: dobbs

dobbs — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 16:11:11 -0800

what are you entering for the phone number? It's not taking +1.xxxyyyyyyy where xxx is the area code and y is the phone number. Also tried +01.xxx.yyyyyyy. What am I not understanding?

By: Rothko

Rothko — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 16:24:55 -0800

dog.be?

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 16:29:24 -0800

+1.xxxyyyyyyy works fine for me, dobbs. Maybe it just doesn't like you.

By: AllesKlar

AllesKlar — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 16:35:18 -0800

+1.xxxyyyzzzz worked for me as well.

By: signal

signal — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 16:57:48 -0800

dobbs: +XX.XXXXXXX

By: Wolfdog

Wolfdog — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 17:03:51 -0800

whatfoolsthesemortals.be And on a tangent, where can I get Leffe Brune in the US?

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 17:22:30 -0800

Meet the proud owner of whatelsecouldi.be. All apologies can be left at the email listed in my profile.

By: dobbs

dobbs — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 17:25:50 -0800

arrgh. it doesn't like me. Canada's 1, right? Maybe it ain't free for Canadians.

By: dobbs

dobbs — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 17:28:53 -0800

arrgh. there was a space on the end that I couldn't see till I selected the text. It likes me. It really likes me!

By: spazzm

spazzm — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 17:35:04 -0800

analpro.be is taken. Meh. The only domain I can find that is available is nothingleftto.be. I lack imagination, I guess.

By: Edame

Edame — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 17:57:07 -0800

flam.be was taken, but I got popntwin.be.

By: dobbs

dobbs — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 18:06:43 -0800

I got itwill.be and a few others that aren't sentences. Neat.

By: brundlefly

brundlefly — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 18:07:30 -0800

I got broughttoyoubytheletter.be.

By: 31d1

31d1 — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 18:15:15 -0800

loquax, sorry, i got i8a.be. And I was also bitter that someone snagged outgra.be. I could have gotten men.be, and now it's gone, and i'm kicking myself.

By: dobbs

dobbs — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 18:22:48 -0800

31d1, did you get some confirmation beyond the confirmation number that you punch in? I did that and then it just "Thank you, it's been submitted." Anyone get a firm "it's yours!"?

By: brundlefly

brundlefly — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 18:23:30 -0800

I'm upset that somebody else got kemosa.be.

By: SPrintF

SPrintF — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 18:30:23 -0800

Cher? igotuba.be.

By: brundlefly

brundlefly — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 18:35:09 -0800

africanized.be

By: moonbird

moonbird — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 18:37:43 -0800

whatawayto.be & whatcouldtheanswer.be now, what the hell should i do with 'em?

By: 31d1

31d1 — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 18:44:00 -0800

dobbs, i registered it with gandi.net, cause this was like a week ago when their servers were down, and i decided it was worth 6 bucks.

By: me & my monkey

me & my monkey — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 18:49:24 -0800

ericthehalfa.be?

By: dobbs

dobbs — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 18:51:07 -0800

ah, okay.

By: brundlefly

brundlefly — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 18:51:33 -0800

Any wiccans here? somoteit.be is available...

By: aristan

aristan — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 19:28:41 -0800

thanks, brundlefly... I ganked it. just what I needed, another domain.

By: vodkadin

vodkadin — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 19:35:58 -0800

Damn it, someone already got ado.be. They could sell it for thousands! My evil plan is ruined.

By: aristan

aristan — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 19:37:16 -0800

vodkadin, start an site to investigate who got ado.be... you can call it adobepro.be

By: jivadravya

jivadravya — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 19:47:42 -0800

I was able to get billbeginswitha.be -- Ahh, sweet vanity.

By: stenseng

stenseng — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 19:56:41 -0800

Well, no confirmation, but I theoretically got fatdoo.be

By: stenseng

stenseng — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 19:59:49 -0800

this just in from the bad taste dept. abughrai.be

By: mendel

mendel — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 20:07:10 -0800

Y'all know that you've just got one year of registration, and you'll be paying next year if you want to keep it, right? That is, if the .be registrar doesn't take it away anyhow.

By: brundlefly

brundlefly — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 20:16:14 -0800

mendel: Well, yeah, it is a promotion after all. Not a giveaway. stenseng: Damn it! I had just thought of that! I did get hepatitis.be, though.

By: kirkaracha

kirkaracha — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 20:19:42 -0800

The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune! tobeornotto.be is taken.

By: loquax

loquax — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 22:15:17 -0800

loquax, sorry, i got i8a.be. Hmmm. The plot gets thicker. I got a confirmation email for it. Will we have to fight to the death? Is that the Russian mob's scheme?

By: blendor

blendor — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 22:20:01 -0800

My last one was my favorite: allo.be, which I could prefix with front/pariet/occipit/tempor - not to mention just the coolness of 'allo' itself.

By: 31d1

31d1 — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 06:22:15 -0800

loquax: Hmmm. The plot gets thicker. I got a confirmation email for it. Will we have to fight to the death? Is that the Russian mob's scheme?" Hmm, that is wierd. I've definitely got it - it's serving right now, though not on the standard port. But I've noticed that gandi.net will lock all your domains except they won't do it for .be . I have no idea what thats about, but I guess it could be taken away from me.

By: loquax

loquax — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 06:34:26 -0800

Well, either way, if I do end up getting it somehow, you can have it. I was not really going to do anything useful with it anyways.

By: QuarterlyProphet

QuarterlyProphet — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 06:45:57 -0800

How about a Shakespeare site? tobeornotto.be Or 2BOrNot2.Be

By: dobbs

dobbs — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 14:12:02 -0800

I just started getting confirmation emails for the 8 I registered.

By: etoile

etoile — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 09:33:20 -0800

I just put in for getreadyto.be - I can't believe nobody had that yet. Also got a couple of others that I can't even remember offhand. Of course now I have to remember not to renew them for $20/pop, but hey.