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Originally Posted by David
.brussels domain name seems a trifle expensive, at first sight.
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Not sure about pricing since this varies from registrar to registrar, but the cost for the registrars is higher for a .brussels domain name than for a .be domain name so logically I'd guess the customer will also pay more to register a .brussels domain name. Not sure exactly how much, probably depends on the registrar. I can add though that here in Brussels, .be is still a lot more widely used than .brussels ; I've only seen a 10 websites or so advertised with the .brussels extention.
Here for example the price is 37 €, which is about 4 to 5 times as much as the price for a .be in general:
http://www.brusselsdomeinnaam.be/
To make it more complex, the city of Gent has its own .gent domain too, but unlike .brussels the registry is not the general registry that also runs the .BE extention:
http://www.nic.gent/
Oddly enough, Name.com and eNom and EuroDNS offer this one as well, in addition to bNamed, Gandi, United-Domains, Not sure about pricing but again varies from registrar to registrar probably.
The whole range of new domains IMO leads to pointless complexity, more than it does anything good.