OK, a lot of people have completely missed the bigger issue here; either that or the selfish attitudes typed out on here are demonstrations of why the rest of the world is fed up of "profit at all cost" corporate America.
The main point is not that GoDaddy lost out, although since, for once, they appear to have behaved ethically, they do deserve some credit not derision. If they had done the same trick of registering 2000 bogus registrars --- which they could have done given their sacks of money and when they saw others doing it --- everyone here would be out for GoDaddy's blood; so they can't really win can they. No, instead of just playing the same dirty tactics as the domain speculators they chose to try and lobby EurID for a better system, can they not be applauded for once?
No, the real reason the.eu fiasco sucks and the real reason Europe is annoyed is because the ordinary citizens and small businesses of Europe lost out, including one-man-band development shops who wanted the.eu name of their product etc, but either their company status meant they did not qualify for or could not afford the sunrise fees (remember the sunrise fees didn't give any guarantees of success either). These ordinary citizens and small businesses all went to their familiar, well established registrars who they've dealt with for years, such as 123-reg.co.uk, 1and1.co.uk, eclipse.net.uk, godaddy.com too I guess, thinking that the big name companies they knew well would do their best for them. The ordinary citizens and small businesses DID NOT KNOW about the legions of fake registrars, or have any way to contact them and have them grab on their behalf, or any way to sort through the hundreds of "registrars" listed on the EurID website and choose one that stood a chance of getting a result for them, or ANY KNOWLEDGE WHATSOEVER of how the landrush was going to work.
So essentially it looks like.eu is just going to end up just as much a useless wasteland of parked domains as.com is, but had a fairer allocation system been employed, ordinary people could have had their ordinary domains.
The final point is that it isn't too late to fix this. Since there were no guarantees about who got which domain in the landrush, it's not too late for EurID to declare the whole thing void and rerun it on fairer terms to the established registrars. So long as they do it before many websites get established on the new domains, nobody is going to have any case for suing for loss of their domain when the landrush is scrapped.
Actually flickr.eu shows as application pending to Yahoo on whois.eu, but I agree with you about feedburner.
I tried to register three.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.
So in my experience,.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.
Well, why not do the reboot at the time you or the system installed the patch then? These days, windows patches and apps that use the MSI installer are pretty good at only asking for a reboot if they actually need to, because some important DLL got replaced or similar. By delaying the reboot you are just inviting a crash. This is why they made the "reboot after patch" dialogue pretty obtrusive, to deal with idiot users who insist on working while the system is in a half-patched state.
I love it, MS actually does something to enforce good patching of their systems and STILL you complain about it. Can't win.
Yes, it's like how many software developers write lazy code these days since memory is cheap. Bandwidth is cheap now so many web developers are writing lazy pages.
Or it could be the dreaded Skype sucking up all your bandwidth as it has done at my company.
Diana was reasonably close to the people, in that she was not born royal but was a regular who married into it (ok she did come from the very very rich Spencer family so had some advantages).
She was also *nice*. For example, I was wandering home from university late one night, found my path blocked as I passed the Royal College of Music by assorted police men. Before the police men could say why they were blocking the path she came out the front door of the RCM, walked over to me and the other guy similarly held up for all of 5 seconds, shook both our hands and apologised for holding us up before getting into her limo. Awesome, just one of those chance happenings. Can't imagine any other royal or celeb doing that.
All the other royals are a bit weird or a bit distant, things have gone way down hill since she died.
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OK, a lot of people have completely missed the bigger issue here; either that or the selfish attitudes typed out on here are demonstrations of why the rest of the world is fed up of "profit at all cost" corporate America.
.eu fiasco sucks and the real reason Europe is annoyed is because the ordinary citizens and small businesses of Europe lost out, including one-man-band development shops who wanted the .eu name of their product etc, but either their company status meant they did not qualify for or could not afford the sunrise fees (remember the sunrise fees didn't give any guarantees of success either). These ordinary citizens and small businesses all went to their familiar, well established registrars who they've dealt with for years, such as 123-reg.co.uk, 1and1.co.uk, eclipse.net.uk, godaddy.com too I guess, thinking that the big name companies they knew well would do their best for them. The ordinary citizens and small businesses DID NOT KNOW about the legions of fake registrars, or have any way to contact them and have them grab on their behalf, or any way to sort through the hundreds of "registrars" listed on the EurID website and choose one that stood a chance of getting a result for them, or ANY KNOWLEDGE WHATSOEVER of how the landrush was going to work.
.eu is just going to end up just as much a useless wasteland of parked domains as .com is, but had a fairer allocation system been employed, ordinary people could have had their ordinary domains.
The main point is not that GoDaddy lost out, although since, for once, they appear to have behaved ethically, they do deserve some credit not derision. If they had done the same trick of registering 2000 bogus registrars --- which they could have done given their sacks of money and when they saw others doing it --- everyone here would be out for GoDaddy's blood; so they can't really win can they. No, instead of just playing the same dirty tactics as the domain speculators they chose to try and lobby EurID for a better system, can they not be applauded for once?
No, the real reason the
So essentially it looks like
The final point is that it isn't too late to fix this. Since there were no guarantees about who got which domain in the landrush, it's not too late for EurID to declare the whole thing void and rerun it on fairer terms to the established registrars. So long as they do it before many websites get established on the new domains, nobody is going to have any case for suing for loss of their domain when the landrush is scrapped.
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,
Well, why not do the reboot at the time you or the system installed the patch then? These days, windows patches and apps that use the MSI installer are pretty good at only asking for a reboot if they actually need to, because some important DLL got replaced or similar. By delaying the reboot you are just inviting a crash. This is why they made the "reboot after patch" dialogue pretty obtrusive, to deal with idiot users who insist on working while the system is in a half-patched state.
I love it, MS actually does something to enforce good patching of their systems and STILL you complain about it. Can't win.
Yes, it's like how many software developers write lazy code these days since memory is cheap. Bandwidth is cheap now so many web developers are writing lazy pages.
Or it could be the dreaded Skype sucking up all your bandwidth as it has done at my company.
Diana was reasonably close to the people, in that she was not born royal but was a regular who married into it (ok she did come from the very very rich Spencer family so had some advantages).
She was also *nice*. For example, I was wandering home from university late one night, found my path blocked as I passed the Royal College of Music by assorted police men. Before the police men could say why they were blocking the path she came out the front door of the RCM, walked over to me and the other guy similarly held up for all of 5 seconds, shook both our hands and apologised for holding us up before getting into her limo. Awesome, just one of those chance happenings. Can't imagine any other royal or celeb doing that.
All the other royals are a bit weird or a bit distant, things have gone way down hill since she died.
errr - no it isn't.
KBE does mean Sir Tim.
See here.