Domisfera

Few days ago, an inhabitant of Aspe (Alicante, Spain) called Faustino Gomez, anticipating the Government of Spain, registered .es domains with the initials for the new ministries created by the Government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación mcei.es (Ministry of Science and Innovation), Trabajo e Inmigración mtei.es (Labour and Immigration),  Ministerio Educación, Políticas Sociales y Deporte mepsd.es (Ministry of Education, Social Policy and Sports) and Ministerio de Industria, Turismo y Comercio mict.es (Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade).

It is logical that the Government had registered the domain before making public the names of the Ministries. This is not the first time that something similar happens with issues of government (and this is all Domisfera can disclose…) 

Now it turns out that the Government wants these domains and in many ways it has been noted that Faustino was only willing to lend them to the Spanish Government for four years in exchange for a transfer of water from the Ebro river  to Valencia, Murcia and Alicante. Really  this is not true, it’s an ironic joke of the owner towards the media. Although Faustino did not want to talk to the media and publicly give his version, Domisfera has been able to establish telephone communication with him and has confirmed that the real interest was to show the Spanish Government  mismanagement and lack of foresight. 

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Back in late January, Red.es (.es domains Registry) made public the distribution of the number of domains managed by Registrars, but without giving the name of any Registrar.

Domisfera in an independent and unofficial way has extracted from the total of 833,551 .es domains registered (until February 2008) the distribution of domains, including the names of the Registrars.

(The data are shown below are not 100% accurate because they have been collecting over the past month and Inter-Registrar domain transfers are continuous)

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On January 15, Nic.es gave the new. Until now the annual renewal of .es domain was determined and is conditioned by a fee. This was reflected in the Order of fees under the Ministry of the Presidency. Finally, the two Ministries involved (the Ministry of Industry and Tourism and the Ministry of Treasure) had given the go-ahead to move forward with the new instruction from the General Manager of the public corporation Red.es.

Until this instruction, renewal bound by a year of .es domains was in the Order of Taxes which is a standard range of the law which stated that the form of payment of a registration of a domain was a fee. Now all this has changed, renewals and other operations to register .es domains will be regulated with a public rate.

All this is not something trivial. In short, the rate of price change will allow the registration and renewal of .es domains for more than one year and other registry operations since its entry into force on 15 January 2008.

Among other fees, these are the most interesting ones:

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