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.eu Domain Names Top 2.5M in Year One
VictoryDone writes "More than 2.5 million ".eu" Internet addresses have been registered since the European domain name launched just over a year ago.
Many worldwide brands — from companies like Air France and Versace to environmental campaigners Greenpeace — now have a ".eu" address, officials said, singling out non-European brands Sony Corp. and Toyota Motor Corp.'s Lexus for also choosing an ".eu" address in ad campaigns."
You didnt expect them to sit there and let some cybersquatter take it, or worse a rival company did you?
I live in the EU and can honestly say that I haven't tried typing a single .eu domain name yet, nor have I seen them in ads or links.
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I live in France, and have since September. I interact with French people every day. I have never seen or heard of a .eu address, and didn't even know they existed until reading this Slashdot article.
Le français vous intéresse?
Yet Another (pointless) .tld is launched.
.eu domain - companies are registeriung the domains, but they are just using their normal internationally-known existing ones.
.eu tld is just a money-raising exercise, nothing more.
.eu addresses in use...
Of COURSE major companies are going to buy their domain name - they can't risk cybersquatters, rivals or people with a grudge buying instead, so they have no option.
However, I can tell you that as someone who lives in an EU country, I have never ever seen anyone publish their
The
BTW, I am willing to bet that a lot of the "good" names have already been snapped up by cybersquatters already. Which means the vast majority of domains are either squatters or companies keen to avoid being squatted. Which leaves VERY few "legitimate"
People should not be afraid of their governments - Governments should be afraid of their people.
The only reason I care about a tld is when I'm shopping. For us Brits Amazon.co.uk has lower shipping costs and a faster delivery time than Amazon.com where the goods have to come all the way from the USA. As such I look for .uk tld names to ensure that they are in the same country as me.
Without wishing to get involved in flame wars about whether the EU is a good thing or not, for the sort of on-line shopping I do membership of the EU is not really relevant.
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A new TLD was released and people who missed chance to get .org/.net/.com or Country-TLD are trying to get one? Colour me surprised. ;-)
Rocksteady, are you ready to ska?
"After just one year `.eu' has become a well-established part of Europe's cyberspace," EU Media Commissioner Viviane Reding said.
.eu name (and almost nobody does), then I would not call it well-established.
She seems to think that a holding place for a lot of names is the same as a well-established part of cyberspace.
If I would have to define that, I would certainly include some specification of the actual usage. When nobody actually uses a
But then I am not a clueless media commissioner.
When the .eu registries whois stops referring admins to use http service for registrant details, we may even begin accepting email from the TLD.
"The registrants must be located within the EU"
.us domain name.
Are regulations ever enforced? A little off topic maybe, but yesterday I almost registered a
As I was about to check out I got a different screen to normal. It said that I had to be a business with links to the US,
it also mentioned "all your personal information are belong to (.)us".
Researching it futher I found a right shocker. Swedish (and some others I don't remember) domains often have to pay to change DNS servers. Your rights for a particular domain differ quite a bit with each tld.
I've lived in a few European countries since the launch of the .eu domain. As with other posters here, I've not seen one single website or link to anything .eu
.de or .fr or .it before they'd try anything else.
.eu site then you have to have either, 1. some sort of portal which is just a list of links to language specific content, which simply means your visitors have to click twice to get to the content they want, or 2. a redirect based on IP - which is seriously annoying - especially if you are not a speaker of the majority language in the country you are currently visiting, this can make it hard, or in fact impossible (hands up everyone who doesn't speak Hungarian), to navigate a page (Google, I'm looking at you, hang your heads in shame).
.eu site as the following - 1. domain squatters, and 2. the few people who have a business name that ends in "eu" - neu, or bleu, or similar.
Which is not a surprise since no-one speaks Europeaish. If you have a pan European organisation then you need to have sites language specific, and in most countries people are trained to type in
If you have a
So I see the only value in having a
Funnily enough I just let my old company's .eu domain lapse. They didn't use it for anything, and I'm sure it would just confuse people if they had started to (they keep the .com, of course).
Rich.
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The Welsh village with the longest name in the UK is also one of the few domain names that uses all possible 63 characters allowed for a .eu domain name. Check it out at http://llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllan tysiliogogogochuchaf.eu
imho all tld's are pointless. Simeply going to http://slashdot/ or http://games.nintendo/ would be much simpler.
.com, .net, .org, ... are anyway all registered under the same name by the same person. And if they are not, it just causes confusion or it is used for fooling people.
.tv and .eu which serve no real purpose whatsoever except for getting everyone to register their domain name before someone else does. Which ofcourse results in... Profit!
All the different tld's like
country-based tld's are only there because of nationalism, every country wanted one...
Now-a-days tld's are nothing more than just a way to make money, hence adding new tld's like
09 f9 11 02 9d 74 e3 5b d8 41 56 c5 63
will we see slashdot.eu ? :)
The reason I got a .eu domain is quite simple: the .nl was already taken, and the owner didn't want to part with it.
I have yet to type
How many of the EU registrations are clear attempts to catch typos looking for an EDU domain traffic. Some are just typo squatters and some are looking for more ...
http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=1866
Keep the Classic Slashdot.
Who cares about the inbred old guard of Europe. Decrepit, diseased, and bankrupt. Plus, they have France.
There is only one country that matters, when it comes to the Internet. U.S.A.
Reduce, reuse, cycle
What does ".eu" represent: the European Union or Europe in general? Perhaps there should be two new domain suffixes .Eu and .EU (note the case). Is this possible? And what about the EEA (European Economic Area? (This is essentially the EU with some others like Switzerland and Norway).Perhaps there could also be a distinction between the old EU countries such as France and Germany and the new such as Bulgaria and Romania. Maybe .neweu and .oldeu. The possibilities are endless
Right, load http://lexus.eu./ Immediately redirected to http://www.lexus-europe.com/.
That's their best example? What a waste of time. Who actually USES this TLD?
But, things TFA fails to mention include the fact that many speculators bought hundreds or thousands of .EU domains, over 20% of them don't resolve to anything, and within a few weeks, hundreds of thousands of them snapped up in the initial "land rush" will expire.
More about it here in The Daily Domainer.
The domain I wanted to register has already been squatted :-(
...
Apparently there is a nice expensive appeals process if I feel strongly about it - despite the fact that the domain has been idle since registration.
Why are domains not considered important for individuals
...euroskeptics agree as much as anyone that the EU is first a common market. As such I think there is a benefit of an .eu name for a company that serves primarily the EU (often with the addition of EFTA countries) - and such pan-european retailers are on the rise.
Work still has to be done here on several fronts to get to a similar open market like the US - delivery, even simple willingness to serve the entire EU, and yes, a common currency. But even as things are I've been buying from all over the last few years (Germany, France, Norway, UK) and I appreciate the extra choice and lower prices.
Now, if only they had had the foresight to name it the Union of Europe, then I could have registered sq.ue, an excellent domain name.
Best regards,
Steve Sque.
Interesting to see that phuck.eu is already taken and seems to be some kind of "portal". Gets click advertising revenue, I guess, but who's seriously going to use a phuck.eu portal?
I already know from experience that the main registrar - "eurid.eu" - has been doing business with "Alex Rodrigez", aka "Leo Kuvayev", who sells pirated software and counterfeit drugs for the Russian mob over the internet. I have personally recieved 25 spam emails from his domains that have been registered in .eu namespace.
Combine that with the non-existent customer service from said registrar, and we have the dawn of a new spammer heaven.
Therea are about 75 mil com+net domains that have been
.com or .net pages there will .eu one. Naturaly, you will rarely notice
out there for an average of 10 years perhaps.
2.5 / (75 * 10) = 0.003
So, for 300
be an
them, even if you look for them.
Music:
Jazz and all its derivatives (blues, rock & roll, rap, etc) are an US phenomenon.
The minimalist movement (whose major representative is Steve Reich) are perhaps the most influential movement in classical music in the last 30 years (get "Differnet trains" , an authentic masterpiece).
Writing:
Great Gatsby. Enough said.
Painting:
Andy Warhol? Wistler?
etc.
Most people in the US certainly are happy with disposable culture, perhaps in a major percentage that in other places, but there are many great things about US culture worth investigating (which I will when they drop the treatment of tourists as would be criminals or terrorists).
IANAL but write like a drunk one.