.gr question

[hangman21]

recently been interested in greek terms and found quite a few good ones. is it worth getting the idn.gr extension or should i just stick with .coms ?

[sunsei21]

umm ya greek is the flavor usually happens after a sale if they available in .gr buy it .gr is where a lot seem to have started and left the .coms .gr is way more popular than .com although less seems to be left in .gr and there is a application process. go for it

[hangman21]

thanks for your feedback brian, any thoughts yanni ?

[yanni]

Ya, .gr is more popular with Greeks (Ascii of course so far).
Sunsei21 is right, most are gone, but you can still find a bunch of good ones laying out there.

Minimum 2 year reg @ 25 Euro per name is kinda expensive.

But a good thing about it is that: you get both versions of the name (accented and unaccented, plus you have first refusal on the translit ASCII version of the name. Translit meaning the same keys on the keyboard representing the roman letter.
So, if you have σπιτια.gr you should technically get spitia.gr also if you want.
It works both ways. If you get the ascii version of a name, the idn is reserved for you.

If icctlds happen, I believe dot gr will award (if paid) the idn.idn version as well, judging by the way they're handling things so far with idn.

In .gr you can reg 3 letters and up. So the .com single and two chars are valuable.

You can't reg Greek-geo names so again the .com is valuable in this respect.

There is an application process whereby even if you reg a name and are using it, within about a month or longer, you get the official approval from the Hellenic Institute of Computer Science, or not :)

Pornographic and offensive (racial and so forth) type names will not be awarded. I would be careful with "sex-related" names; after you reg one, do not forward or develop to a porn site. Wait for final approval first ;)

Initially when you reg a idn.gr domain, you are awarded the unaccented version and upon final approval you get the accented version as well. So if you will use third party nameservers, make sure you include both xn-- versions to get all the traffic.

I think you have to be a Greek resident or EU resident. At least that's what I remember from a few years back. Maybe things have changed recently.

I use dnhost.gr for my regs but there is no English interface (even though their emails come in both languages plus "Greeklish").

Papaki.gr has an English interface, but no bulk search or bulk regs.

I think that's about it.

[hangman21]

wow yanni, thanks for your full description on this :)

[yanni]

I should also address the very important fact that the domain resale market in Greece is non-existent :)

So don't go crazy with regs.

[hangman21]

yes sir ! =)