They (dot.ph), hands down, are the slowest I have experienced. In all respects -

(1) The dot.ph is slooowwwww. Yes, everything-about-it slow.
(2) The reply to query is sloooowwwww, which is a token actually because it’s, in truth, non-existent.

If they (dot.ph) can’t fix their own websites (try visiting them all to see real meaning of slooowww), I can’t and will in fact not wait to see their webshosting performance.

Utterly disappointing.

Anyone experienced the speed at which they issue refunds? Slooowwww, perhaps? If they (Dot.ph) wants to charge a lot, which in fact they do, why can’t they show some performance?

Anyhow, I have seen people go around his “ph” problem by attaching something before and after their “ph” “-ph” before or after their domains. So for example, if your preferred domain name is “dotphsuckslow,” instead of “dotphsuckslow.ph”, people opt for either:

(1) “dotphsuckslow-ph.com”
(2) “dotphsuckslowsph.com”
(3) “phdotphsuckslow.com”

It does not look pretty above because dotph sucks, but imagine this:

(1) “love-ph.com”
(2) “loveph.com”
(3) “phlove.com”

Even lovelier than love.com.ph or love.ph, isn’t it. And way cheaper. And way faster – I’d give the first person a free Manchester United jersey if he/she can find in the next 12 hours a website in the same line of business slower than dot.ph. And its a dot.com – its like the (02) in Metro Manila landlines which means all the positive brands recalls you can have except the fact that pldt at the height of its monopoly why slooooww like dot.ph sloooowww.

This is aging tech-kuno company, stagnant and stinky, with no noteworthy innovation it seems whatsoever in the last ____ years. How many people believed believed their i.ph project? What was that? Look at their website. Even their CEO’s blog seems designed from crap.

I believe people should do this than pay well for a lousy service. What are dot.ph servers like, circa and pre-1999? And where exactly are they?

Goodness, what shameless tech providers.

Tarantado yan si Joel Disini. Don’t ever trust that scumbag.

For posterity, follow the thread here http://www.grabeh.com/forum/showthread.php?t=8193

Domains are $6-$10 already. WTF is .ph domain? made of gold?

We’ve been battling to break up the Disini monopoly for more than 10 years. Of course, the idiot will start lowering the price when competition happens. But since he thinks he is untouchable and act like PLDT. Oh well.

All you, kind folks, can do is just boycott the damn Disini corporation. It will make the world a better place.

Well, at least, until we break up the Disini monopoly. Think pldt.com.

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On a side note, I’m intrigued that there are domainers already anticipating DotAsia domains to come out. (It won’t be availalble to the public till early 2008). DotPH is one of the founding members of DotAsia, together with a few other ccTLDs. I think it’ll be bigger than dotEU and the betting in Portugal (ICANN Lisbon) is that it’ll probably hit 2M within a year of the landrush period. I think that’s pretty optimistic, but we shall see.

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Now that you mentioned it, I remember now that DotPH is one of the founders of DotAsia, how could I have forgotten that.

I agree, .ASIA will be bigger than .EU, and while we’re at it, maybe you can offer us bloggers something like the ‘sunrise’ registration for businesses with TM and R ?? I really like to get my domain names secured, but it seems TM/R will take longer than expected :/

And I don’t even know how to get advantage of the sunrise registration hehehe.. :p

Personally, I’m really into .ASIA instead of ccTLDs

http://jed.i.ph/blogs/jed/2007/04/08/dotph-prices-revisited/

On a side note, I’m intrigued that there are domainers already anticipating DotAsia domains to come out. (It won’t be availalble to the public till early 2008). DotPH is one of the founding members of DotAsia, together with a few other ccTLDs. I think it’ll be bigger than dotEU and the betting in Portugal (ICANN Lisbon) is that it’ll probably hit 2M within a year of the landrush period. I think that’s pretty optimistic, but we shall see.

Jeffrey Wong says:
April 7th, 2007 at 5:58 pm

I’d rather buy a .ASIA than .PH as well.

When .EU came out, several ccTLDs in Europe dropped their prices, some (.BE) even gave it away for free.

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Source: http://www.yugatech.com/blog/?p=1809

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So.. will .PH drop down its prices once .ASIA is available to the masses?

We’re already in the “ONE COMMUNITY” era, protectionism and individualism is OVER. ccTLDs are the past, regional TLDs are the future.

.ASIA is where I will invest my money.

$35 is just plain ol’ ridiculous. robbery at its finest.

In my opinion, i dont think he would lower the price. It was just an alibi.

My idea is make dotPh open to all, sell it without restriction to all nationalities. Please sell it around 8$ to 12$.

.CO.UK, .US, .IN are curretly sold below 10$. .CO.UK is sold without restrictions.

He didn’t even answered why it costs $35/year. He’s just marketing his products

NOT EVERYONE IS AN ADSENSE/SEO PEOPLE

NOT EVERYONE IS A DOMAINER

NOT EVERYONE WANTS TO BUY WHOLESALE (too expensive… again…)

Did this guy really cares about his country at all?

For us non-business people, or for Small businesses, the $35/year is VERY EXPENSIVE (emphasizing). As much as we want to get a ccTLD like .ph (and variations), we decided not to. We sacrificed getting more attention on google.ph results (to name one) just to avoid that expensive price.

Though we can say ‘thank you’ for making it expensive, coz if it wasn’t and we bought our domain of choice using .ph, we wouldn’t have learned how to get our desired results – we will be relying on ccTLD like .ph.

Well, I guess for everyone, forget about .ph, get .ASIA which will be opening publicly this year. After all, today is the generation of a ONE ASIAN COMMUNITY – social and business aspects.

that’s what happens when you have monopoly power and are gouging your market

The post didn’t seem to answer that question.

I cant see the his answer to the title question “Why dotPH is still expensive?”

Here is the ACTUAL quote:

“”The number of sales is growing really fast. So we are seeing a lot of the secondary market going into the long tail, a lot of small sales happening. So at SEDO, for example, to give you an example, we have an average price of about $2,000. And we have a median price of about $600. That means more than half of the names sell for less than 600. So there are just a couple of high-ticket sales, like vodka.com, which we sold a couple of months ago for 3 million. And those, of course, take the average price up.”

Average $2k, but median is $600.

Aside from pure corporate greed, I just don’t get the economics of selling .ph domains at $35/year.

I guess i have to look for 1199 interested persons to join me to be able to get a discounted price

Dotph should be the first one to encourage local entreps to use ph domains but with the $35 price tag? nakupo ,,, buhay nga naman

I’m just wondering how many sales did they already lose because of their expensive domain names. I for one would have also availed of a .ph domain if they sell at most the same as .com domain names.