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Why is dotPH still expensive?

October 25, 2006 • Filed in: Thoughts & Relationships

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… that was the rather innocent question I asked the SEO Philippines group. I was really just venting out a frustration. It triggered quite a hot discussion from the local bloggers. Apparently, it is a long standing issue. A domain name on dotPH costs US$35 a year.? A domain name in GoDaddy can go as low as US$10. DotPH, for those who don’t know, controls all those websites that end with? com.ph on it.
See what Angelo Racoma and Abe Olandres says about it.

The answer, is really simple. DotPH is a monopoly. Monopolies get to DO this because can.

Markku suggests that we all should do something about it. Harness our SEO skill to help drive DotPH prices down. Make ICANN, the Internet registrar guys, notice what’s happening.

Don’t you just love it when you can make SEO an advocacy?

I’m up to it. Want to target the keywords “Philippine Domain Registration”?
.. that leads to website that says “DotPH is a monopoly. ICANN do something!”

Is there a pun there somewhere?

Comments

By Marc on October 25th, 2006 at 11:02 am

That’s too easy a keyword.

Target “philippines”.

By Mike on October 25th, 2006 at 5:22 pm

I live in the U.S. so we are all about the .com. What is the advantage of getting one of the country specific ones like .com.ph? Is it just the greater availability of good domain names? Or is there something beneficial in the localization of it?

By eu-leh on October 25th, 2006 at 6:58 pm

What are the benefits and advantages of getting a dotPH domain compared with generic ones (.com, .net, etc.)?

By jozzua on October 27th, 2006 at 8:12 am

dotPH domains are not cheap. It just turns out that some PHlippine companies get dotPH domains because the regular dot com domain is taken. Advantage? It seems that Google appreciates local domains for regional sites. SO if you are targeting a local, philippine market, you would presumambly rank better in Google when you market your site. I have yet to see proof of this, though.

By goodspeed on December 14th, 2006 at 10:39 am

Yes! Let the googling bombing begin. Down with the Disini monopoly.

By jozzua on December 14th, 2006 at 12:02 pm

Unfortunately, the Disini Google Bombing plan wasn’t accepted by the SEO Philippines people They didn’t think it was worth the hassle.

By goodspeed on December 14th, 2006 at 1:50 pm

but we need to do something :) hmmm…

By jozzua on December 15th, 2006 at 7:38 am

Yeah. Most of the People I talk to, however, would simply say… Don’t buy .ph domains. That’s it.

By JC John SESE Cuneta on December 24th, 2006 at 1:08 am

What we need is to support the government in taking back DotPH from the private company. In the first place, DotPH is the country’s “domain name”. Let the Filipino people benefit from it and not some private corporation.

And regarding google favoring country-domains, if you are using the format .TLD.CD (country-domain), you are out of luck. From what Ive read elsewhere, google favors .TLD and .CD. So if you use .CD instead of .TLD.CD, you’ll rank better.

So .ph is better in the eyes of Google than .com.ph .net.ph .org.ph .edu.ph .gov.ph .biz.ph .info.ph etc.

(No, there are no .ws.ph :p hehe… .ws is a country-domain too.)

 

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