Written by Gareth van Zyl | From It Web Africa

Dutch headquartered registry operator Freenom is helping Equatorial Guinea relaunch its internet top level domain, GQ, and giveaway domains with this name for free. According to Domaintyper.com, the .gq top level domain name has been in existence since 1997.

But Freenom says it is working with Equatorial Guinea’s largest telecoms provider GETESA to relaunch the GQ domain and then give away web addresses with this name at no cost.

Kick-off for this initiative starts on December 1, 2014 with free GQ domains on offer to all internet users in Equatorial Guinea and internationally.

Furthermore, Freenom says no restrictions to registrations of free domains will be enforced while GQ web names can be renewed an unlimited number of times at no charge.

“Free domains make a lot of sense in countries where the banking penetration is in the single digit range,” says Freenom’s chief executive officer Joost Zuurbier in a statement.

“The demand for free domains is enormous because people in those nations may not have a credit card to buy domains, but they do have a profound need to communicate and build their presence online.

“Free domains are an important catalyst that directly enable local content creation and internet entrepreneurship,” he notes.

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