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Over 1 Million .eu Domains and Counting

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the buy-them-up dept.

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."

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  1. Hmm by Poromenos1 · · Score: 4, Funny

    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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    1. Re:Hmm by joe+155 · · Score: 4, Funny

      If you like that you'll love being able to register ".co.ck"... I always found that one funny, not exactly shure which country it is though

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    2. Re:Hmm by richardablitt · · Score: 5, Informative

      The Cook islands, somewhere between Australia and South America.

  2. big in GB... by joe+155 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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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    1. Re:big in GB... by taskforce · · Score: 4, Insightful
      I think many people are going to misinterpret this article. I doubt very much that any more than 10% of the registrations (at a liberal guess) would be actual companies registering .eu domains. Most of these are probably going to be resellers and squatters, which is why the UK proportion is so high.

      I can't think of any reason why a UK company would buy a .EU domain unless it was out to alienate it's customers, market to the rest of the EU under a different domain, or simply just bought every TLD for it's domain name.

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    2. Re:big in GB... by ickoonite · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Two words: island mentality. The Japanese have a similar view of the Asian mainland.

      I am no geographer, but one should not underestimate the fundamental importance it has in shaping the human experience.

      iqu :|

    3. Re:big in GB... by Wellington+Grey · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Yes I am an American (though I moved to London three years ago). It still seems odd to me to hear my English co-workers talking about what is going on in Europe. To me it would be like hearing New Yorkers talk about taking a trip to America.

      -Grey

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  3. Is this a case of... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The UK initially led the way during Landrush but have since been overtaken by Germany

    ... get your towel off my domain name?

    1. Re:Is this a case of... by amliebsch · · Score: 4, Funny

      I'm not surprised at all. Ther Germans have a long history of successful landrushing.

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  4. Domain Squatting by cheetah_spottycat · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.

  5. EU is such a silly idea... by Jugalator · · Score: 3, Funny

    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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    1. Re:EU is such a silly idea... by wizzdude · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Well, not entirely.

      The European Union is a free trade area so there are import/export duties on goods traded with the zone. There are some businesses who would therefore treat this entire area as one and for them branding themselves under an EU domain would make sense.

      A UN domain would never be used for that reason as it is purely political and not economic.

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  6. uk second biggest domain after .com? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    According to Nominet http://www.nic.uk/ it's only the forth biggest namespace, not second.
    As far as I know, Germany (over 9.5 million .de-domains) has the second largest namespace.

  7. embiggen.eu is still available by psykax · · Score: 3, Funny

    for legitimate pharmaceutical suppliers, of course

  8. Re:.eu is useless, it's a domain DMZ by mikeplokta · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

  9. In Soviet Russia... by borgdows · · Score: 4, Funny

    insovietrussiadomainsregister.EU !!

  10. some .eus :) by tomasvilda · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://www.google.lt/search?q=site:.eu -- http://stilius.net/