.je and .gg domains - Any advice or contacts appreciated

[tafuta]

looking into reg an seeing if they work. Anyone with exerience would like to help?

 

[dta]

owned one of each a while back for an experiment.... the experiment failed and I don't often talk about it anymore

 

[tafuta]

lol. What was the experiment if i may ask?

 

[dta]

pm'd .....

 

[sdsinc]

These names are not cheap and the natural audience is tiny

 

[Peter E]

looking into reg an seeing if they work. Anyone with exerience would like to help?

I think you will find that you need to be a Jersey resident to register .je
There is strict Housing Law
Its likely highly regulated

Stick to .co.uk
Please note: Jersey is not in the UK

 

[untagged]

I have "internet.je", had it a few years now but like it has been mentioned above the natural audience is tiny

 

[Admin]

reopened

Admin

 

[travmcgee]

GG and JE are open domains

The information from Peter E is wildly incorrect. That is to say, WRONG!

The domains are /entirely/ open and are s not regulated, in the way that housing occupancy is in some of the Islands may be. Even housing is not regulated in the Island I live in (in reality things are nothing like what you might believe from watching reruns of 'Bergerac'!!!). The registry is, like .UK, run by a private company not the States.

Anyone can register domains and there are various domainhack uses, including quite a popular application in Holland and Belgium for JE (anyone who speaks Dutch will understand why).

If you register directly at www.channelisles.net is, as other posters have said, (relatively) expensive but not dramatically so than Nominet's direct fees (49 GBP per year, no VAT).

The natural audience is not exactly "tiny" but it is admittedly "small" -- a total of 120,000 souls for the Islands, compared with 60 million for the UK.

And by using registrars (popular EPP connected registrars are gandi, bbonline, microtech, blacknight), registrations are much cheaper.

I hope this information corrects some fundamental misunderstandings about the Channel Islands' TLDs.

It is first-hand information (I work for the registry) and you can always email or contact us (we are a small team of 5) via the contact details at

http://www.channelisles.net/contact.shtml

(Incidentally, in case anyone is interested, SEDO will be auctioning GG.GG this month.)

 

[namealot]

lived on Jersey for a number of years and would say that most locals don't use there own cctld, The population is that of a medium town selling advertising to locals (good luck with that) most people know each other and who to get what they want.

97,857 according to the 2011 census. The census also found most islanders live in or around St Helier. 45,800 Internet users (French and English) as of August 820 Face book users

Island have been in decline a number of years and even the gov own prediction are this will continue as well as population decline

States on Ages etc avail

http://www.gov.je/SiteCollectionDoc...dministration/TD ModelResults 20090529 SU.xls

Wonder what % of registration are locals? Wouldn’t waste your time or money on them