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DotRadio is the official provider of the .radio extension for your domain name.
If you would like your radio station to stand out front the others and get rid of the generic and overused .com extension, you can do so and join the radio community and get the original .radio domain name for your website.
Instead of being YourRadioStation.com, you will become YourRadioStation.radio and that is rockin!
DotRadio is quite new in the system, it was launched in 2017. We understand that some radio owners are shy to take the big step. Therefore, we have contacted some of our professional users to talk about their .radio domain and their experience with it.
Obviously, none of them would do a step back to .com, they are all very happy about DotRadio.
In this article, we will present an other owner of an Internet Radio station who uses .radio for his website hosted in England.
Let us introduce you Glyn Roylance, owner of thornbury.radio.
Introduction
DotRadio is glad to work with radio professionals all over the globe and give them the solution to have a domain name truly matching their activity. Like .TV for the tv, DotRadio is here to help radio professionals, radio stations and others from the radio world to have their own domain name, improve their visibility and make their activity online better.
If you are a radio professional and reading this article, you can get your DotRadio domain through many registrars.
Of course, you can get it through us following this link : www.register.radio.
If you already work with a domain provider such as OVH, you can keep using it providing that it is accredited for selling .radio domains, you can check out the list of all the registrars that work with us. There are a lot of them and the list is available at www.nic.radio.
Also remember that you can keep to use your hosting provider (for websites and email accounts) even if you have registered your .radio domain not with it. Registering a domain and using a hosting provider are two different things… Of course, it is convenient to have only one provider for both aspects.
Today, we are interviewing Glyn Roylance, who owns the radio “Thornbury”. It’s been a while that he is using our DotRadio domain name. We wanted to hear from his experience to help radio professionals understand the benefit of having such a thing.
Visit thornbury radio right here it now live!: https://www.thornbury.radio
Thornbury radio logo
Presentation
DotRadio: Hi Glyn, thank you very much for your time, to start this interview, let’s do some quick presentation. Could you explain to us what your radio is ?
Glyn: Hi guys, we are Thornbury Radio Gloss FM. It’s a long name because we are in the process of re-branding from Gloss FM to Thornbury Radio, but don’t want to go fully Thornbury Radio until we are broadcasting on FM!
We are a truly local radio station serving Thornbury and District in rural South Gloucestershire
DotRadio: That is interesting, can’t wait to see you becoming FM. Where are you exactly based in Gloucestershire ? That is England right ?
Glyn: Yes, it is not far from Bristol. The place is Thornbury obviously in South Gloucestershire. That is why it is the name of the radio.
Dotradio: Thank you for the clarification, now we see precisely where it’s based. Do you do live radio or it’s only recorded shows ?
Glyn: Yes kinda, we use Aiir which has a built-in radio player, and we are on lots of streaming platforms like TuneIn to name some.
Thornbury radio website
About DotRadio and Thornbury
DotRadio: That sounds cool, we encourage people to go and check your radio out to hear exactly what it’s like in Thornbury. To speak more about the DotRadio domain, why did you choose to own a DotRadio domain name ?
Glyn: Well this is very simple. We want to make it obvious that we are a radio station, and as part of our rebrand to Thornbury Radio.
DotRadio: That is great because we have the same goal as you, make it obvious for the radio world! And how did you hear about us ?
Glyn: We heard about DotRadio on general news.
DotRadio: pretty simple, are you happy with your experience with us so far ?
Glyn: Yes, it is very responsive to queries and all.
DotRadio: Thanks for that, about the domain, where did you get it? Through a specific registrar or directly with us ?
Glyn: We got it through www.register.radio, I think it is your company website.
DotRadio: Yes, it is our own website, you can either get it through a classic registrar or work directly with us. How would you describe the process to get it through us ?
Glyn: The process was fairly simple, in a few clicks we were able to have our DotRadio domain.
DotRadio: That is great, we want it the easiest as possible. How do you use the domain so far ?
Glyn: At the moment a simple forwarder to our main glossfm.co.uk domain. But in time we’d like to rationalise all our domains, web and email hosting into a single account with one company.
DotRadio: We saw that you display .co.uk on your website, why don’t you display www.glossfm.radio instead of ? www.glossfm.co.uk
Glyn: Because we started with Gloss FM and we were planning to go under .radio to make it more obvious, so we booked the domain name until then. This way, nobody can take it from us, but until we are ready to launch, we use .radio as a simple forwarder. So it goes from thornbury.radio to glossfm.co.uk.
DotRadio: Understandable, your website gonna climb up the search engines after that. Did you know that choosing to display .radio could improve your SEO ?
Glyn: No, but I do now! That is very interesting.
DotRadio: Yes, not much people know that, we are trying to communicate more about it. Maybe you have some recommendation and feedback that could help us improve our services.
Thornbury radio studio
Feedback and recommendation
Dotradio: We would appreciate it if you can give us some feedback and recommendation from the point of view of a user. About .com and .radio, what do you think we should do to help people understand that it would work better than having .com for their website. Obviously for radio related websites because if you have a website about skateboard and you name it .radio it doesn’t make sense at all.
Glyn: Yes, it is not easy to understand if you are not a specialist. I guess a thing you could do is getting one or two “big players” on board so that smaller stations are tempted to “me too” as well.
Or how about partnering with radio website developers?
Finally, you even do a Tune in type service or station directory? (There are reports that Tune in is no longer taking new stations, and may even fold). Url would be radio.radio. Theme music by Elvis Costello!
Dotradio: well thank you very much for the advice Glyn, you nailed the idea. We are trying to get the big one but being a bigger boat, I guess it becomes a “big” decision that takes longer to take. Somehow we have to have them seeing us. Partnering is a great idea, we are working on it but it will definitely help.
About our service, do you have any thoughts on what we could improve?
Glyn: Yes, for us what could be great is if you could offer mail and email hosting.
Dotradio: Haha, yes of course. This is coming on register.radio! It should be available in a couple of weeks hopefully before Christmas. For now, we can help you to set an email with a third party so you can also use a .radio email like glyn@thornbury.radio.
Glyn: Oh that is interesting, see another trick I didn’t know about you, you are full of great surprises.
Dotradio: Thank you very much, when you first looked at our services and got your domain name, What are the things that you wish you need help for? or you would have needed help for?
Glyn: As a non IT expert, I find the bit around managing domains and hosting trickiest – name records etc. a little bit difficult to set up and understand. But other than that it is pretty straight forward. The great thing is the team that was able to help me get through the thing I couldn’t.
Dotradio: Yes, we try to make it as easy as possible, but there is some part that we need to explain more. We are creating guides and a lot of help for non IT users. But usually if you fill up the thing as it comes, even if there is stuff you don’t know it should work. And yes the team will be always here to help!
As a professional in the radio field, would you say that DotRadio is a future way to go for the radio world?
Glyn: Haha, hopefully it will! For now as I said before I think it needs to get one or two big ones to stand out once and for all. I really think it will be such as the .TV extension did for TV stations. It is good to get it now to not “miss the train”. For us it is a great opportunity and we are now way more identifiable with the DotRadio extension.
Dotradio: We are hoping the same as you! Thank you very much for your time and cleaver answer you gave us. We can’t wait for thornbury.radio to be updated!
Let us know when it will.
Good luck and see you soon.
Glyn: Thank you, good luck to you too.
The DotRadio Team
Useful Links
Where Glyn bought his domain name: https://register.radio/
More information about DotRadio: https://discover.radio/
Join the DotRadio Community on Facebook: https://on.radio/group-facebook
Check out the Radio Website: https://www.thornbury.radio/
Check out our blog post about another professional radio: https://blog.register.radio/how-professional-radio-are-using-dotradio/