Each country has its own unique domain name and for a while in Kenya, we were used to our domains being either co.ke for companies, .go.ke for government entity or .ac.ke if it is a local university and so on.
Now KeNIC (Kenya Network Information Centre) who are mandated to manage the administration of the .ke top level domain, has announced on their Twitter account of a potential game changer in the local domain space.
KeNIC will introduce their second level domains that will have the nomenclature “yourname.ke” soon. This means if you want to register for your own domain, you can have something like buttertoast.ke which if you had registered before, you would have settled for buttertoast.co.ke
According to KeNIC, the new level domain roll-out date is on 23rd of next month, so you have less than a month to secure yours.
According to Communication Authority of Kenya report, the country has an estimated 39.6 million Internet users of which a majority access it on mobile. Also from the same report, by December of last year, there were a total of 62,215 registered .Ke names of which the .co.ke domain held a 93% market share.
So in relation to the number of domain names and the number of Internet users, there is still a huge untapped market for the registration of domain names in the country. We will have to wait and see if the roll-out of the new level .ke domain makes a difference in the registration of domains.
It’s about time,
Spoiler alert. The price will be too hot to handle
Then we’ll wait till they lower the prices, it’s not like it’s enticing to host locally anyway.
This opens up the .ke domain to international buyers, if you have a company name that ends with ke then it should be top on your list.
Finally!
We can also have co.ke ( for cocacola. They might even make this their main website domain name)
Ba.ke (for Bloggers Association of Kenya)
etc.
co.ke is probably already booked by now, the most premium domain in that list.
Yes, you’re right I guess it’s already bought.
If you open http://www.co.ke , it takes you to some “premium domain names” page; https://doma.in/
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