By : Mike Nardine
Mexico is finally allowing unlimited registration of its TLD (Top Level Domain) extension, .Mx. While registration of third level domains like .Com.Mx had been allowed, registration of the primary (second level) domain extension had been severely limited to certain Mexican entities. And the third level domains, priced at $250.00 for a minimum of two years, must have been beyond the reach of most Mexicans.
This has brought about some interesting results: for example, registration of .De, the official TLD of Germany is about Ten million; on the other hand, Nic Mexico, the administrator for Mexico’s .Mx had allowed the registration of less than 300,000 domains since its inception twenty years ago; Germany has 82 million people, while Mexico’s population approaches 110 million, 27 million of whom reputedly use the Internet. If the desire of Mexicans for their own extension is anything like Germany’s it looks like there could be some explosive growth coming in .MX. The registrar giant Godaddy appears to think so: they recently announced an expansion of their services to Mexico and Spanish speaking customers on a scale not seen for any other ccTLD (country code Top Level Domain).
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