.Com is king in Spain, but there are some common alternatives.
I spent the past couple of weeks on vacation in Spain, so my apologies for the lower volume of domain news during that time.
I started my travels in Barcelona and then spent a few days in Madrid while taking a day trip to Segovia.
It’s always interesting to see which top level domains people use in different countries. When you leave the U.S., you realize it’s not just a .com world.
To be sure, the most common top level domain I saw when traveling was .com. But there was a higher proportion of non-.com domains than I see in the U.S.
In Barcelona, the most common alternative was .cat, which shouldn’t come as a surprise. I also saw a couple of .barcelona domains, especially at major tourist sites.
The other TLD I noticed was Spain’s .es country code domain.
In Madrid, everything I noticed was .com or .es.
Andrew Rosener says
Come say hi in Portugal! We are much better than Spain!
Mark Thorpe says
Interesting.
How dare you go on vacation. Lol
Jose says
Thank you for your trip through the cities you were on your trip to Spain, the country where you were born and where you still live.
@Andrew where you live is just as beautiful as other places in Spain.
The .COM has preference, it is .ES is very Spanish and the .CAT is the abbreviation of Catalonia, it is used by the governments, Catalan organizations and also the anti-Spanish majority that is the independence movement.
.Barcelona had many problems in its beginnings, my Trademark and Patent Lawyer told me with Catalan politics, but in the end it was solved.