About the .SAARLAND new gTLD

The ending .saarland should make the Internet attractive for all people that live in the Saarland region. The suffix will bring with it a sense of community and a degree of interaction among various social groups who will make use of the name.

The dotSaarland association brings together the interests of Saarland citizens, businesses and institutions to one top-level domain. Club members can be anyone who wishes to promote the Saarland name space on the Internet, whether it be a person, business or an institution.

Advantages of a .saarland domain:

• Public authorities, associations, clubs and businesses can all register names using the .saarland extension. Example domain names such as business.saarland or culture.saarland can provide and effective means for communicating an organization or company's purpose and location.
• The .saarland domain name extenstion will improve the visibility of the region as a brand. Also, including the name in email addresses such as example@email.saarland heightens people's awareness of the Saarland in general.
• The inclusion of the .saarland domain name extension will improve the reliability of Internet searches with terms related to Saarland.
• The region will be among the first to apply for one of the potential new top-level domains and will thus take one of the leading roles in determing the success of the new technology.

Company overview

The non-profit dotSaarland Association is located in St. Ingbert an was founded on October 6, 2009. It's services are aimed at residents and political representatives from the Saarland region as well as relevant economic and societal issues. The nine founding members include the State of Saarland, represented by the Ministry of the Economy and the VSE NET.

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Secure your chance to own one of the upcoming new top-level domains by pre-registering your desired domain name now.

We will attempt to register your reserved domains as soon as this becomes possible thereby increasing your chances of owing one of the new TLDs.

Additionally, by pre-registering, you won't miss any of the registration deadlines. The pre-registration process is free; no processing fees will apply.

Only in the case that you do wish to register any reserved domains will you be charged a fee. Unfortunately there is no guarantee that we can successfully register all desired, pre-registered domains.

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