European domains: Belgium (.be)

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Is your domain name working hard enough?

Currently, whether you have registered a .com or a .co.uk domain there are no restrictions if you would like to register both versions of your domain name - and many people do!.

Of course, the choice is all a matter of your preference - .com is often regarded as "International" where the .co.uk domain is deemed to be "UK only", usually it depends on the target market.

Whilst, the .com domain is recognised world wide, it is easier to remember and to type, and there is a whole world full of people who could register it before you do!

If your target is primarily the UK market then registering just the .co.uk domain would seem to be the obvious choice. The .co.uk instantly identifies you as a UK company and often, given a list of URLs in a search engine, people will choose a domain / URL with their country code. Therefore, it follows that if you want to extend your target market then registering your domain with other country-code top-level domains (ccTLD) will expand your target audience.

Registering both .com and .co.uk (and others such as .at, .dk, .es, .eu, .ie, .it, .nz, .se etc) domain names in fact makes very good sense - it stops anyone else from registering your name and leaves it ready for you to use either right away or in the future. Did you know that with Web Forwarding you can have as many domain names as you like pointing to a single website - see Web Forwarding below.

Email Forwarding

Create an almost unlimited number of unique Email addresses for your domain name (e.g. me@yourdomain.com, info@yourdomain.com,sales@yourdomain.com, etc.) and forward them to your existing email account(s). Set up each employee or family member with their own personal Email address.

Catch All Email

Simply tell us 'one' address to have all your messages sent to and all of your emails will be forwarded to that address.

Web Forwarding

If you already have a website, start using your domain name without the additional cost of hosting. When a user enters your domain name into their browser, they'll be redirected to your existing website.

You can have many domain names forwarded to a single website.

Web Hosting

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Background

.be is the Internet top level country code domain name (ccTLD) for Belgium in northwestern Europe. It is the founding member of the European Union and the international organisation of NATO and its population has been counted to be roughly 10,419,000 people, with a GPD of $316.2 billion. It's main languages are Dutch, French and German. The registration for the .be domain name is made directly at a second-level and is contracted on a first-come-first-serve basis, and there are no restrictions placed on who can register.

The .be domain name is operated and sponsored by DNS Belgium and has done so since 2000 and have managed to receive over 470,000 registrations since 2005. The domain name was introduced in 1988 and before the delegation to DNS Belgium .be was operated by Pierre Verbaeten of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. DNS Belgium are there to keep all technical aspects relating to the registration in check, to make agreements with registration agents and coordinate domain registration at a national.

Below we show the domain statistics for DNS during 2009.

• Population is estimated to be 10,419,000 people
• Gross Domestic Product is $316.2 billion US Dollars
• Languages recognised in Belgium are German, French and Dutch