Philippines - a domain market still expecting growth

In 2016, more than 44,000,000 people used the internet in the Philippines, somewhere around 43% of the total country population. 52% of Filipinos had a computer with high speed Internet connection at home, though a survey showed the average internet speed of 4.5 Mbps and small percent of users over 30 years.

This leads to conclude that the utilisation of internet in the country is still expecting growth and will lead to greater demand for website domains with .ph extension.

In the event that your market is the Philippines, getting a .PH domain will give you an edge, specially considering search engines do prioritize local websites.

.ph Domain Requirements:

Anyone can register .ph domain
Minimum registration length is one year
Domain names cannot correspond to well-known or prestigious brands that belong to someone else or to a geographical name.
No additional fees are needed to register .ph domain.

Domain Names must:

have minimum of 3 and a maximum of 63 characters;
begin with a letter or a number and end with a letter or a number;
use the English character set and may contain letters (i.e., a-z, A-Z),numbers (i.e. 0-9) and dashes (-) or a combination of these;
not contain special characters such as hyphens, &, and #
not contain a dash in the third and fourth positions (e.g. www.ab- -cd.pt); and
not include a space (e.g. www.ab cd.pt).

Hosting as well as email services for .pt domain is available at istanco.com.

All information (name, address, email, etc.) will be displayed in WHOIS.

With Private Registration, your personal information will not be displayed on WHOIS queries

It may take up to 48 hours after buying a domain name for a domain to start working (point to your dns servers) after updating nameservers.

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What is the difference between the World Wide Web and The Internet?

So many people are browsing websites, sharing images and other data online, and for them we can say that they are consumers. These consumers do not need to know the details about the technology that is used to enable that online content for them. The average consumer thinks that he is using "internet", although, in fact he is using "www" (world wide web service) when he is browsing websites, that is enabled over the infrastructure that is "internet". Many hostnames used for the World Wide Web begin with www because of the long-standing practice of naming Internet hosts according to the services they provide. When a user submits an incomplete domain name to a web browser in its address bar input field, some web browsers automatically try adding the prefix "www" to the beginning of it and possibly ".com", ".org" and ".net" at the end, depending on what might be missing. However, all this ...

After the domain name expires, who can sell the domain name and make a profit?

Original owner can renew before it expires, after it expires there is a redemption period when he can renew but with added redemption cost fee. When the redemption period is over, if the domain name has value, the registrar will put it to auction and after the auction end it will go to the highest bidder. If there are no auction bids then registrar will return the domain to its registry and it will be available once again for anyone to register.

Are there any drawbacks (SEO or otherwise) to .us domains?

Other than people mindeset to “default” to .com when searching, there are no drawbacks to .us and search engine wise it is even better for websites that want to target USA audience as it is a ccTLD. I would recommend Accredited Registrar for registering a country code domain name.

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