Do you want a website for your business with .barcelona? (Application period over)
Have you got a shop or commercial establishment in a neighbourhood in Barcelona? Do you want a professional website with a .barcelona domain, completely free of charge?
Here at Barcelona City Council and Fundacio .cat we’re offering you the chance to launch your website very quickly and easily. The site will be a single page website, with a maximum of two languages and a menu featuring four sections where you can include photographs, a description of your service, contact details and location on the map.
What you need to know
It will be a free website with one .barcelona domain. See an example
You can request it up until 15 November 2022
Applications will only be accepted while availability lasts
Interested?
Follow these four steps to get your website:
Click on ‘I’m in!’
This will take you to the website for Nominalia, the collaborating registration company which will support you throughout the whole process of choosing and registering a domain and creating the website.
Fill in the application form
A professional from Nominalia will call you to start the process and choose and register your .barcelona domain.
Send the information for your site to be created
What information do you want on your website? Send the content to Nominalia a soon as you can so that they can start working on your site.
Launch the website for your establishment
A week after sending in the information, the website for your commercial establishment will be published. You can always update it yourself with the support of Nominalia.
Need to know more?
WHO CAN TAKE PART?
Shops and businesses belonging to the network of commercial establishments in neighbourhood in Barcelona.
WHAT WILL YOUR WEBSITE BE LIKE?
Your site will be a single-page website with vertical browsing and four sections: Who we are, Services/products, Where to find us and Contact us. The site will also have a contact form, links to social media and the option of checking the location on a map. The website can be offered in a maximum of two languages (Catalan and Spanish).
It will have the name which you choose (providing it’s available) with the extension .barcelona.
It will also include all the legal requisites on data protection (RGPD): privacy policy and warning about cookies.
You can see an example here: https://marionaestilistes.barcelona/
IS IT FREE?
Yes! You will have your .barcelona domain completely free of charge during the first year, along with the design of the website through to the point it is published. This service also includes free website hosting, three email addresses associated with your domain and support seven days a week to resolve any queries about the service.
IF IT’S FREE, WHY ARE YOU ASKING FOR MY BANK DETAILS?
When you’ve chosen your domain and you want to register it, you will be asked for your bank details as this is a standard procedure to be completed when registering any domain extension. This is a way of validating the details of the holder. You can be assured that no charge will be made in the first year and that no charge will ever be made without your authorisation (you can choose not to renew the domain and the website from the second year).
HOW MUCH DOES THE SERVICE COST AFTER THE FIRST YEAR?
All the services described in the previous point are free. As from the second year, the user will have to pay the corresponding quota. The price of the current service (including the renewal of the .barcelona domain) is € 41,90 + VAT. Nominalia reserves the right to vary the price of this tariff.
WHAT IF I WANT TO STOP USING THE SERVICE BEFORE THE YEAR ENDS?
You can do this by contacting Nominalia directly. No charge will be made but you will not be able to participate in this support programme again for a year. Once the service is cancelled, the website, the domain and the associated email accounts will be lost.
WHAT INFORMATION WILL I BE ASKED FOR TO CREATE THE WEBSITE?
Logotype, sentence and description of the business, brief account of services, contact hours, opening times, links to social media and photos. If you want the site to have two languages you must provide the text in Catalan and Spanish.
WHEN WILL MY WEBSITE BE AVAILABLE?
You can see the finished website a week after sending in all the required information.
WILL I ABLE TO MAKE CHANGES ONCE THE WEBSITE IS PUBLISHED?
Of course. Nominalia’s professionals will take charge of building your site up to the point it goes live and from then on you can make any changes you need to update it. You can do this by entering the client area on the Nominalia platform and clicking on the ‘web editor’ section of your domain.
You’ll have online training capsules available to you, explaining how you can update the content on your website, with personalised support also available seven days a week for any doubts you have.
In addition, if you want the Nominalia team to make any changes you can request this from the control panel in the client area. This type of support costs € 30 an hour.
CAN THE WEBSITE CONTENT BE IN ANY LANGUAGE?
The website content can be in Catalan or Spanish, or in both languages.
WHAT IF I WANT TO SET UP AN ONLINE SHOP?
The service we offer is for the creation of a basic website. If you would like to offer other options such as an online shop, you will need to contract a specialised professional to do this.
WHAT IS NOMINALIA?
Nominalia is an accredited registration company for the .barcelona domain. It also offers other services relating to the creation, hosting and promotion of websites.
WHERE CAN I CONSULT THE CONDITIONS FOR THIS OFFER IN MORE DETAIL?
You can find full details on the conditions for this service here.
NEED HELP?
You can contact use with any doubts or comments by writing to suport@domini.barcelona or calling us on: +34 936 750 354 We’ll be delighted to help!
