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City markets closer to hand

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Barcelona’s markets form an important part of neighbourhood life and provide a harmonious experience. Besides being a role-model for commerce in each neighbourhood, they head the urban market model at an international level. Now they’re the latest to have a .barcelona domain with mercats.barcelona, where you’ll find all the details.

In addition to basic information on each food market and non-food market in the city, such as addresses and opening times, you can check how busy they are in real time, discover the Quiet Hours, when light and noise are less intense, make online purchases for home delivery and discover where collection points are located for you to pick up your shopping swiftly and securely from refrigerated lockers. You can also check the activity agenda so you don’t miss the upcoming workshops and displays or read the latest news on markets.

But the website mercats.barcelona offers so much more! Do you know how to make cherry gazpacho or romesco sauce? Check out the markets blog to find dozens of recipes, tips from grandma, information on what’s in season and more.

Barcelona’s markets are also a place for learning. Through this domain you can discover how markets help people acquire knowledge linked to healthy and sustainable food and products.

Barcelona’s young people have got the dot

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If you’re aged between 12 and 35, you’ll find all the free resources on everything of interest to you at the website joves.barcelona, with information on studies, work, housing, emotional well-being and more. You also have access to 18 points for young people located all around Barcelona.

What content does this .barcelona domain offer?

  • Studies and training: discover the full range of education options available and which ones are best for you. You’ll also find information on study rooms, official language schools, grants and much more.
  • Work: whether you’re looking for your first job, out of work, looking to change sector or start your own project, you’ll find personalised advice on how to do it. 
  • Housing: advice on looking for a flat or a room, what support is available to help you pay the rent, information on saving energy at home and all things related to housing. 
  • Well-being: discover the municipal services and resources for emotional and psychological support, sexual and reproductive health, physical activity and sport.
  • Activities: get the most out of your free time with all the cultural and recreational options available to young people.

And if you want to keep up with what’s going on at joves.barcelona, you can keep up to date with everything via Instagram, TikTok, Twitter and the newsletter.

The .barcelona domain connects with the city’s digital sector

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We had the chance to take part in the E-Show Barcelona on 7 and 8 March, one of the biggest and most important fairs for the digital and tech sector, held every year in the city. We were there with the .barcelona domain and the registration company DonDominio, the perfect occasion for us to advise visitors on registering domains for their businesses.

At the E-Show we were able to connect with other professionals and companies in this sector, discover new trends and innovation and present the .barcelona domain to visitors at the fair. It was an enriching and exciting experience, where we had the chance to share ideas and exchange knowledge with experts in this sector.

Various companies and entrepreneurs in the city took advantage of the presence of the .barcelona domain at the E-Show to ask for advice and register their domain. All of them pointed to the importance of linking their activity with the city, in terms of sharing values and the importance of having a domain that puts them on the map. In this respect, we identified plenty of interest in the domain from international professionals active in the city.

It was a unique opportunity for us to demonstrate our commitment to the city’s digital and tech sector and the development of innovative products. In short, our participation at the E-Show Barcelona was a very positive and enriching experience which allowed us to connect with other professionals in this sector, discover new trends and innovation and introduce the .barcelona domain to a broader audience.

survey.barcelona: the photographic vision of transformations in the city

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Ten photographers have been working in parallel to portray Barcelona, each from their own particular perspective, and document the transformation the city has undergone since 2015. Discover this photographic project at survey.barcelona to understand how the urban landscape has changed and the scope of work carried out in recent years.

This unique photographic of six hundred images features the following visions:

  • Parks (Milena Villalba): general organisation and new green areas.
  • Uses (Andrés Flajszer): elements of public space and how they engage people.
  • Surfaces (Pedro Pegenaute): reurbanisation of streets and added vegetation in more mineral areas.
  • Night (Aitor Estévez): public space during these hours.
  • Air (Jon Tugores): the city seen from above.
  • Life (Xavi Bou and Joan Diví): Barcelona’s biodiversity.
  • Architecture (Adrià Goula): new public housing and facilities and their relationship with the city.
  • Housing (Maite Caramés): personalisation of the inside of public housing by users.
  • Insides(Pol Viladoms): the inside of facilities as new public spaces.
  • Vegetation (Simona Rota): greenery in detail.

The goal of this first photographic survey was to generate a combined vision of the work carried out and shared in numerous projects of different types and dimensions: from major projects in public space to new facilities, public housing and minor works in streets and squares.

.barcelona is a city of women

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Streets, squares and parks are named after men in most cities in the world. So what’s the story with women? US artist and writer Rebecca Solnit pondered this and came up with the “City of Women” project in 2019, symbolically renaming all the subway stations in New York. London followed suit in 2022 and Barcelona is doing the same to mark 8M, International Women’s Day, with ciutatdedones.barcelona.

The project “Barcelona, ciutat de dones” highlights the extraordinary contribution of many women who have left their mark in different spheres in our city and society. Writers, activists, teachers, singers, actresses, doctors and others have all symbolically given their names to stations on the metro network and urban stops on the FGC train network.

We’ve also given women a greater presence among the city’s street names in all districts. Barcelona now has Plaça de Valerie Powles, Carrer de Lola Iturbe and the Jardins de Carme Claramunt.At ciutatdedones.barcelona you can retrace the history of these women and read their biographies. Are you familiar with Josefa Vilaret, Dolors Aleu or Pilar Aymerich? Discover their stories. Start your journey around the City of Women #CiutatdeDones.

The third City and Science Biennial is here

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The City and Science Biennial is set to turn the city into a space for debate and reflection from 21 to 26 February, with a programme based around living: on the planet, in the city, human life in general and the scientific community in particular. You’ll find all the activities to be enjoyed on the website biennalciutaticiencia.barcelona.

Round tables, debates, lectures, theatre, art installations and more make up the programme for this edition, which is grouped into four topic areas:

  • Living in the city: at a time when over half the global population lives in urban environments.
  • Living in equity: with options for moving forward in equal rights and opportunities in all spheres.
  • Living with science: to explore and understand the daily work of scientists.
  • Living creativity: the points where art and science meet open up new doors for us to find solutions for today’s needs.

Activities for the biennalciutaticiencia.barcelona are being held around ten spaces close to each other in the Raval neighbourhood in Ciutat Vella. In addition, and as with previous editions, the event is complemented by the activities in the +Biennal, organised by local municipal facilities, cultural centres and other organisations and institutions promoting scientific knowledge and reflection among the general public.

Resolutions for 2023: more visibility, more security, more .barcelona

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We move into the New Year with a list of resolutions (which really will hold true this year). Typically, these might include doing more sport, learning a language or plenty of other things. When it comes to going digital, there will also be those determined to gain greater internet presence or create a website for their project, whether a business, an organisation or a personal project.

But before creating the website, we need to think properly about the domain. It’s important to choose one that identifies us and which can stick with our project for a long time. If you’re unsure, it’s best to think it through than to launch with a domain you know will be provisional. All domains have two parts, the name you choose and the domain extension. Did you know that Barcelona is one of just over 30 world cities with its own domain extension? And that a .barcelona domain can help you stand out on Google Maps? In addition, besides launching a new website, with .barcelona you’re linking your digital identity to the city and forming part of the .barcelona digital community.

“And what if I’ve already got a domain that isn’t .barcelona? How can I link it to the city?” One way of gaining visibility on the internet and forming part of the .barcelona community is to register a .barcelona domain as a secondary domain. In other words, to redirect the .barcelona domain you register with your usual .barcelona domain. This way you can increase the possibilities of people finding you on the internet and promote your business by linking it to your city.

Neighbourhood commerce in Barcelona goes digital with .barcelona

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Here at the .barcelona domain we’re working to help small shops and businesses in Barcelona go digital. From the end of May to mid-November we promoted the project “El meu comerç .barcelona”, where establishments were able to get a professional website with a .barcelona domain in a fast and simple free process.

The initiative meant that besides getting a new website, commercial establishments were able to link their digital identity with the city and form part of the .barcelona digital community.

“The digital environment is everywhere today, and for all ages”, notes Noelia Setó, the owner of noeliasllar.barcelona in the Sants neighbourhood. “I’ve got one because Victor, who’s about to turn four, sometimes says to me: ‘Mummy, search Google to see what Ladybug’s friend is called’, for instance. Amazing! So even if you’re a business with on-street premises, you need to move with the times and use all the resources which allow people to know about you and your product”.

As a society we’re experiencing a digital transformation. The arrival of the internet on our phones and in our homes means the way we consume and find information has changed, not just among the younger generations but even among people who are not digital natives.

A Google search is usually the first thing we do when we need something, as Noelia remarked. That’s also the case when we look for a shop or business, even in our own neighbourhood. “On the website, simple though it is, there’s valuable information about the business: where we are, the products we have, some images, opening times…all that means that people who don’t know me are comfortable enough to come and look around! Young or old, there are more and more ‘mature’ people gradually getting into the internet and the digital environment, and they surprise you!”, adds Noelia.

At lambicus.barcelona, an establishment specialising in Belgian beer and located in the neighbourhood of Sant Antoni, they were also clear on how having a website would give their business added value. “It helps bring us new customers, young and not-so-young. On the website we can tell people about the activities we have (tastings, presentations, festivals etc.) and the latest news. They can also contact us and it’s a quick way to know where our bar and shop are located”.

The last campaign for the project “El meu comerç .barcelona” saw fourteen commercial establishments in different Barcelona neighbourhoods sign up, all of which opted for a .barcelona domain. “Barcelona is a brand. It’s an identity. It nourishes collective activity. It makes you part of something. Puts you under its wing. So, everything linked to Barcelona is a plus for a business in the city. It’s like an exchange. We build all the values it conveys into Noelia’s llar.”

The application period for “El meu comerç .barcelona” is over for the moment. You can find more information about the project on the information page.

These are some of the websites created with the programme:

The .barcelona domain takes part in the ICANN summit for registers and registration companies in Los Angeles

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The .barcelona domain travelled to Los Angeles to take part in the ICANN Contracted Parties Summit. The ICANN is a non-profit organization responsible for hosting IP addresses, managing generic and territorial domains and allocating protocol identifiers. Their events offer a meeting point between domain registers and registration companies, giving them the chance to continue their collaboration and find new synergies.

One of the key points for this summit was DNS (Domain Name System) abuse and how to tackle it. This is an issue which affects everybody, and at .barcelona we feel these sessions are important for working together with other registers and continuing to improve the security of our domains.

Another key point was the future of technology. We attended a debate on emerging technologies and the future of alternative domains such as the ENS (Ethereum Name Service), a domain system similar to DNS created by users of Ethereum cryptocurrency and blockchain, a new data organisation technology which gathers information in a shared and decentralised way, and which has provided the base for growth in cryptocurrency in recent years. The session analysed threats and opportunities in relation to the current domain system, a topic where many questions remain and which for the moment is being approached with a certain scepticism.

Finally, the geoTLD.group, which the .barcelona domain belongs to, met with WordPress to further the negotiations which will enable the content manager to include languages such as Catalan and register websites with the .barcelona domain etc. WordPress confirmed their interest in incorporating geoTLDs and hopes to start this process in the first quarter of 2023 with a first groups of TLDs.

The .barcelona domain renews as chair of the geoTLD.group

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The geoTLD.group held its annual general meeting and elections for its Executive Committee on 28 September, with members unanimously re-electing the outgoing Executive Committee for a new mandate of three years:

  • Chair: Mr Nacho Amadoz (Fundació .cat, the organisation which manages the domains of .cat and .barcelona)
  • Vice chair: Mr Josu Waliño (Puntueus Fundazioa, the organisation which manages the domain .eus)
  • Treasurer: Mr Ronald Schwärzler (Domainworx Service & Management GmbH, the organisation which manages the domains of .wien, .koeln and .cologne)

The geoTLD.group currently has 28 members (23 full members and 5 observer members), managing 35 geoTLDs:

  • Europe: .alsace .amsterdam .barcelona .bayern .berlin .brussels .bzh .cat .cologne .eus .frl .gal .hamburg .koeln .london .madrid .nrw .paris .ruhr .saarland .scot .swiss .stockholm . tirol .vlaanderen .wien
  • Africa: .africa .capetown .durban .joburg 
  • America: .boston .miami .nyc .quebec 
  • Asia (Pacific): .melbourne .sydney .tokyo

GeoTLD.group is an international non-profit association made up of government bodies, businesses and organisations which represent the interests of top-level geographical domains identifying a city, region, language or culture.

Geographical top-level domains are shaping the internet of tomorrow and creating digital identities for locations and communities. The group works to develop the potential of geoTLDs to benefit cities, regions, cultures and languages.