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History of the website
and Tourism Marketing
in Saarland
Visit Saarland.co.uk
Domain registration date: 15-07-2009
Timeline
1985 first Internet Domains registered VB.com/1985
1994 Registation of the domain Hotels.com 30-03-1994
1995 / 1996 The first Visitor Bureau,
VBs or CVBs
start to use the prefix "Visit"
1997 Foundation of TZS
Tourismus Zentrale Saarland
a cooperation
by the State Saarland
and different partners
like Airport Saarbruecken
Congress Zentrum Saar
different Landkreise
IHK (Industrie un Handelskammer)
ADAC
2006 Registration of VisitSaarland.com
by a Norwegian domain investor
that blocked hundreds of destinations
from getting a Visit domain
for more than a decade.
VisitSaarland.com
is redirected
to irrelevant content
and pollutes the web.
2009 Not able to get .com
the Saarland Tourist board
gets the British domain
VisitSaarland.co.uk
as an alternative
Domain registered 15-07-2009
An alternative French version
is registered 27-07-2009
visiter-la-sarre.fr
not realising that
not a single website
besed in
France / Canadia / Morocco / Benelux
uses "visiter"
In French speaking countries
it's always "visitdesination"
or "desitination-tourisme"
2015 Saarland Tourist board
registers a second URL
for the German version
of the website
Urlaud.saarland
registered 13-11-2015
2017 The Norwegian
Domain portfolio collapses.
One by one the domains eclipse
VisitSaarland.com expires
The domain is re-registered
not by the Saarland Tourist Board
but by an US based domain investor.
The domain is listed for sale
for 1.995 usd,
but the Saarland Tourist Board
continues to communicate
with British internet adress
VisitSaarland.co.uk.
The choice of a British Adress
for a German state might look surprising.
Using the ccTld of the wrong country
is somehow unique.
more coming soon
Offers from Expedia
Ad Agency
The Ad Agency Land in Sicht
contributes to the design of
the website
VisitDSaarland.co.uk
