Georgian .GE Reaches 8,000 Registrations

Posted on February 8th, 2010 by admin in Domain News | No Comments »

The Georgian registry has announced it has reached a landmark 8,000 active domain names – recording a 12.5% annual rise in registrations according to Kate Chkhikvadze of FinChannel.com.

In a world well sheltered from the everyday hustle and bustle of real domaining, Georgian domain names cannot be traded – which explains the minuscule number of names registered in a country of 4.3 million people.

“In Georgia we do not have cases of selling domain names from private individuals,” says Ia Peradze, administrator of .GE domain.

“According to the rules re-selling of domain names is prohibited. When one person cancels a domain name only after that can the domain name be taken by another,” she adds.

Domain names with the .GE extension can be registered through the registry website nic.net.ge, however it is unclear whether foreigners can apply for registration (.ge could make some useful domain hacks).

Georgian domain names are available in level 1 (.ge) and level 2 (com.ge , org.ge, gov.ge, net.ge, pvt.ge, edu.ge) much like a lot of other ccTlds.

According to the above report, the first .ge domain name is free, while subsequent registrations cost as follows:
1-5 domains – 30 GEL, 6-10 domains – 60 GEL, 10-15 domains – 110 GEL, 16-20 domains – 180 GEL, 21-25 domains – 270 GEL. (GEL is Georgian Lari (app 1 GEL = $0.584 US).