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Over 1 Million .eu Domains and Counting
gavint writes "In the first 12 hours since "Landrush" registration of .eu Domains begun at 11:00 CET, over 1 million have been registered. Predictions of .eu becoming the second biggest domain after .com look like they may become true, with Nominet being responsible for "over four million" .uk domains, the second biggest namespace. The UK initially led the way during Landrush but have since been overtaken by Germany, with over a quarter of all registered domains. Meanwhile many "Sunrise" period applications where businesses are able to protect domains where they hold a prior right remain unprocessed, although these domains cannot be registered yet during Landrush. Over 1,000 registration agents were only allowed one connection each to EURid's servers in order to prevent problems and ensure fairness."
How do you pronounce "eu"? If it's how I think it is, "fuck.eu" would be a very nice domain to have.
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I can't help but wonder with the amount of people registering in the GB, 257,368 at present, if this is meaning people are becoming more accepting of the idea of Britian being considered a part of europe. Normally people really try to avoid any connection between their company and europe because people just don't like to deal with anything from "there"... is the net leading the way towards a greater intergration?...
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Call me ignorant, but where does all the money for .eu (and the endless .whatever's to come) go? Is it payed into the European Union or some private company?
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The UK initially led the way during Landrush but have since been overtaken by Germany
Is anyone surprised? I bet that these are 5% "real" registrations, and 95% domain squatters trying to register every single word from the encyclopedia britannica and all TLAs from 'AAA' to 'ZZZ' in one session.
Why not... .UN! All members in the United Nations can register one! :-p
Redundancy and more redundancy for the domain registrars to make money...
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According to Nominet http://www.nic.uk/ it's only the forth biggest namespace, not second. .de-domains) has the second largest namespace.
As far as I know, Germany (over 9.5 million
for legitimate pharmaceutical suppliers, of course
Or something like that. You Europeans are with us on pr0n, right? China? Ok. Russia!?!?!!
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If you can't think of any grocery stores in more than two EU countries, you're not thinking very hard. Try Aldi and Lidl, who both operate in numerous EU countries. In other sectors, there are chains like IKEA.
Don't worry, in a couple of years the US will join in and help us take them all back.
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Big mistake because they apparently just held the registration until April 7th instead of helping with any sort of actual registration, so I discover that half a dozen businesses are ahead of me now in the queue.
GoDaddy had no link to landrush or sunrise, but only added .eu as a domain you could purchase.
Hmmm, top end stuff there. Perhaps you'll become friends with their biggest fan, Faiza
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Looking at the stats, there are currently very few registrations from France.
Sweden and the Netherlands for instance have more registrations than France with far less inhabitatants. Also Belgium is not that far off from France, while it's a lot smaller.
What does that say about France's EU feeling?
Then their fault is not holding it back, but rather not informing you about the concept of Landrush and Sunrise which every single other registrar was talking about.
IOW, use a registrar that doesn't suck.
The closest to this pattern (screw.eu, ihate.eu, etc) is beerfor.eu
Not that I'll register it of course
I think that fuck.eu is going to be a very wanted domain anyway, whatever the pronunciation.
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There are quite a lot of companies with legitimate interest in a .eu domain and will use it, but their number is more likely in the thousands than in the tens of thousands or millions, and all of them will retain their national domains as well. Generally speaking you're right.
.de country TLD of Germany, with 9.7 million domains. Behind that is ".net" with about 7 million domains and only then comes ".uk" with 4.8 million domains. These results aren't really surprising as the .de TLD is the most cost effective TLD. You can get them for just cents a month, and that's the quantity-1 price, not just for resellers. The .de-TLD servers are all over the world, so the performance is excellent. It's not a "cheap" TLD. But hey, ICANN probably knew what they were doing when they handed .net to Verisign instead of to the DeNIC non-profit.
During the sunrise phases, an absurd number of new trademarks have been registered in nonsensical categories. "Sex (tm)" in the groceries category, registered right before the sunrise phase, qualifies as "prior right" to "sex.eu"?
Registrars were only allowed to submit a small fixed number of registrations per second during the landrush, so what did some of them do to get through their queues faster? They created companies like "domain robot 1", "domain robot 2", etc. and entered them as registrars as well. You see, there's the British "Ltd.", which requires just 1 pound to open. Maybe that's how the UK managed to get more domains in at the start? On the other hand, anyone in Europe can now open a "Ltd." company now, so in proper turbo-capitalism fashion, it's probably their own fault for not doing the same.
My not-so-common surname btw was registered by a well-known domain grabber, who now uses it as another "this on ebay" spam site. I know of about half a dozen companies who would have been able to legitimately claim prior right on that domain. None of them did, probably because the enormous costs of registering during the sunrise phases far outweighed the benefit. It doesn't bother me too much that I didn't get the domain, because I have it in my country's TLD and in one of the GTLDs, but I would really have wanted one of these companies to get it instead, not some useless domain squatter. I'll see if it's a sign of a trend or just a coincidence, but I'd wager that "-site:.eu" will have to join "-site:.info" in my Google search template soon if I don't want to drown in spam search results.
Just an aside: The second biggest namespace is the
Actually flickr.eu shows as application pending to Yahoo on whois.eu, but I agree with you about feedburner.
.eu domains which are fairly meaningless to all but myself; I had the registrations in in advance waiting for the landrush to open but it seems like other people got them. In two cases the lucky winners are people with names like "thisdomainforsale.com" and in the third, whois.eu gives an address in China - I've no idea how that can have happened.
.eu has just become yet another cybersquatter/Sedo hell, which is a shame; I had hoped that the higher cost of .eu domains (the cheapest I've seen is 5 GBP per year but the average registration cost seems to be 15-20 EUR) would prevent most of the speculator scum.
I tried to register three
So in my experience,
We have a .co.uk - im moving to .eu if your activity can be done anywhere in the eu then .eu makes sense - if your 'branded' only in one country then .fr/.de./.gr makes sense there still much nicer than .co.uk is personally speaking.
We are thinking to drop the .co.uk
"Over 1,000 registration agents were only allowed one connection each to EURid's servers in order to prevent problems and ensure fairness."
Fairness? Please check official registrars list on the eurid web site. There are tons of clons there sharing the same address and/or telephone number just to avoid 1 connection to eurid limit.
And what eurid did about this? Nothing.
The smaller the registrar, the more-likely they would be able to reserve the name you want since every registrar got one connection regardless of how many names they served.
Uhm, Tesco?
.com/.net/.co.uk domains but can't think of a single reason to register any of them under .eu. But there are many companies that operate throughout the EU and they might find it very interesting to use .eu for their corporate homepage and country TLDs for specific sites in local languages.
But I see your point, I own various
By the way, after spending years in London, I realise the British look with disdain against anything that is not British, the EU - which they conveniently forget they are a major part of and speak of "UK" and "Europe", as if the latter does not include the former - just gets more flack because it is closer to home.
The funniest thing I ever overheard was a conversation of an English couple on holiday in Malta finding it "strange" that their hosts island - now being an EU country - had not adopted the Euro as it's currency...
Never mind .eu, it's all about 'cock' domains!
For example - http://www.google.co.ck/
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Spar, Ahold, Carrefour, Delhaize. In most countries just 2 or 3 multinational chains dominate the market. Most multinational European chains operate under different names in different member countries, though. Ahold and Delhaize also operate in the US under 10 different names.
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First of all .EU also means Europe not only European Union (even if officials say so) and from that perspective its a huge gateway into
region that only US can rival.
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;). That is really jaw dropper for an average European Joe to behold.
Car.eu, shop.eu, RealEstate.eu, realty.eu was gone in first seconds of sunrise preregistration. Many practiced trademarking and other "techniques" to claim even generic domain names (wich was critisized many times). Nice read is "EU Domain Disaster" http://www.eudomaindesaster.org/pageindex.php?lan
Also Eurid.eu allowed only one connection per registrar yesterday. That didn't not stop domain sharks like Pool.com to cooperate/create(?) many subregistrars to get multiple "pooling power" to access the db and squatter as much domains as possible for them. They were claiming (http://www.eu.pool.com/) 80% percent success rate for the sunrise and 60% for the "Land Rush" craziness that occured yesterday (resulting auctions of the aquired domain names begin on monday
With all those eu registered, it seems that most 3 letter domains have gone.... Just hope they all did not go to cybersquatters
And fuck.eu too.
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I registered 8 .eu domains on friday. I got my last name, three three-letter domains, and my company name. I used godaddy for them all. They're still "Pending Application" - I wonder how much BS I am going to have to go through before any or all of these are active. I would have thought with all that 'sunrise' stuff that any checking as far as an existing legitimate claim would have been taken care of already, and that the domains would be active within a couple of hours.
.eu domains with a less-than-perfect contact address?
I did use a European address and phone number, but maybe they are checking on a business registered at that location? How much do they really care?
Is anyone else having this type of trouble? Has anyone else been successful in getting a
Because it will take them some months to validate all the pre-registrations.
Yeah, but that didn't stop the .biz TLD phenomenon despite .com existing. ;-)
And if it was introduced to solve domain shortage, I don't see that as anything more than a bandaid solution.
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Why do we need geography/politics-based domain names at all? Or, since we are already there and cannot go back, why do we need more of 'em?
Wouldn't it be more logical to have domains corresponding to specific thematics? (e.g. slashdot.compsci)
They aren't confined to the EU any more than they are confined to Sweden.
.com (or similar) address or gobs of country-by-country addresses. I'm not sure how .eu alleviates this much.
They have to have a
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The address given belongs to "Gille, Hrabal, Struck, Neidlein, Prop & Roos".
Gille, Hrabal, Struck, Neidlein, Prop & Roos is a German patent/trademark law firm. I would assume that if the registration is valid, the firm is acting on Linus's behalf.
Also note that they registered in their own name also. A bit strange.
If they are acting on behalf of Linus, they will most likely (or hopefully, anyway) be granted the domain.
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