European TLD successfuly launched today!!!

[companyone]

eu domain launches today

OUT-LAW News, 07/12/2005

The first phase of the .eu domain name launch takes place today. Public bodies and holders of registered trade marks can apply for the names. Where two or more have legitimate interests in the same name, the first applicant will be the winner.
The European Registry of Internet Domain names (EURid) was expecting a rush of applications when it opened for business at 10:00 GMT.

During this sunrise period, applicants have four weeks to provide proof of their existing rights. If they cannot comply, the names will be released for others to register.

This phase of the registration process will last until 6th February 2006. Then the second phase begins, allowing company names and artistic names to be registered too. Finally, from 7th April, registration opens to all.

“I expect Europe’s top level domain .eu to become similarly important as .com”, said EU Information Society and Media Commissioner Viviane Reding last week. “For businesses, .eu will extend their marketing reach, while protecting them under EU law against cybersquatters.”

“As a citizen, a '.eu' address can help making your web presence or that of your school, university, or club more visible across the European Union. Europe’s new top level domain therefore offers a unique opportunity for modern online marketing across borders,” she added.

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Dan

[StockDoctor]

The .eu landrush is already looking to be one giant scam game.

Go ahead, look up who already has the shot at your favorite generic.

http://www.whois.eu/whois/GetDomainStatus.htm

You in there skipper?

[Rubber Duck]

The .eu landrush is already looking to be one giant scam game.

Go ahead, look up who already has the shot at your favorite generic.

http://www.whois.eu/whois/GetDomainStatus.htm

You in there skipper?

It is also a shambles as I am in the front of the queue being asked for documentation I don't have on my Ex Bloody Wife's Christian Name. I haven't paid the fee to be in this part of the process and as far as I am aware didn't want to be part of the initial sunrise period.

Best Regards
Dave Wrixon

[friday]

All the generic terms I checked are showing "APPLICATION PENDING" and it's only day 1 of Sunrise 1. Can't wait to see what will be left for the land rush period starting 7 April 2006!!! It has become such a scam that come April 7 it will be renamed a swamp crawl.

[actnow]

The .eu landrush is already looking to be one giant scam game.

I just looked up a lot of words and they all have pending.

How can they grant TM priority on so many simple generic words?

There is an old expression -
"Don't try to beat a 'con' at his own game".

In other words, the domain crooks are 3 steps ahead of everyone else.

[carlton]

"Music" has 69 sunrise apps and "sex" has 226 TM applications. Noticed a Stephen Stock has apps pending for the England cities of : Leeds, Liverpool, and Birmingham. And Traffic Web going for a fair number of generics including "Paris.eu". Some board members here are utilizing multiple registars, but I don't see how that will help with a sunrise app - except maybe in landrush round robin later on. However, "England" is registry reserved (I assume all EU countries will be).

.EU registry should take lessons from the Afilias nightmare. Seems like the TM requirements will be more clear to all players this go round.

[mole]

as far as I am aware didn't want to be part of the initial sunrise period.

That's what I was afraid of, being put in the wrong bloody queue

These registrars will just submit your names and get it done with since all they promised to do to 'earn' their fee was to submit them. Whether you get it or not is inconsequential to the profits they make.

[petrosc]

Quote from the euroDNS.com newsletter:

EuroDNS Newsletter 8th December 2005



European News



.EU successfully launched

Yesterday 7th December at 11:00, EURid opened its systems to receive applications for .eu domain names. 800 Registrars in 25 countries send in applications. All Sunrise 1 Preregistrations that customer placed at EuroDNS are submitted. The Sunrise 2 Applications will be submitted in February and the Landrush Applications in April. You can check on www.whois.eu the position of your Application; you are also able to download on whois.eu the cover letter PDF to submit the documents to Eurid. Submit your Documents only with the original Cover letter, otherwise your application could be refused!

TOTALS
At 11:15:00, Eurid received 40.503 applications (> 40/second with peaks of >60/second).
At 12:00:00, Eurid counted more than 80.000 applications (>23/second).
At 13:55:00, Eurid counted 95.370 applications.
At 16:13:00, Eurid counted 98.718 applications.
At 17:12:00, Eurid counted 99.928 applications.
At 18:45:00, Eurid counted 100.000 applications.

BREAKDOWN at 17:12:00 CET
Total applications 99.928
Unique applications (only 1 application for the domain name) 78.565
Corresponding to
• geographical indications or denominations of origin 645
• public bodies 7.728
• national trade marks 70.090
• community or international trade marks 21.455

Top 3 by time of reception (milliseconds):
1. tickets.eu 11:00:01.699
2. job.eu 11:00:01.711
3. hotels.eu 11:00:01.712

Top 12 most requested domain names at 17:38 CET :

1. sex.eu 213
2. hotel.eu 112
3. travel.eu 90
4. jobs.eu 89
5. hotels.eu 86
6. casino 76
7. poker 72
8. golf 67
9. business 66
10. music 64
11. porn 63
12. shopping 63

Breakdown per country at 17:34 CET :
percentage of applications by applicants originating from
1. Germany 34.89%
2. France 12.76%
3. The Netherlands 12.39%
4. UK 10.14%
5. Belgium 5.85%
6. Sweden 4.80%
7. Italy 4.15%
8. Austria 3.05%

Please bear in mind that these applications are made under Sunrise I, the first phase of the .eu launch in which only public bodies and holders of prior rights (such as trade marks) can apply for registration.

Source: EUDomains

[Rubber Duck]

Yes it looks as thought the whole thing was over in seconds!

[sasquatch]

It was over before it even started.

I wonder how many hundreds of thousands of names will eventually be scooped by the few biggest non-European players and speculators like for example those from Caymans, Hong Kong and Korea?

[stuff]

There are so many application, false tm-s and so on..
this dosen`t mean they get the domains!!!

[FreddyS]

on www.whois.eu you can check who got which names. And which applications are pending like second place and so on....
there are different searchengines for trademarks like http://oami.eu.int
it is easy to check if someone will keep the name.
I think all the guys that applied for the very good names also have the Trademark.

Freddy

[FreddyS]

in some european countries it is very easy to get a trademark. Every one can apply for a trademark in a European Country.

Freddy

[carlton]

.EU will be pretty significant. The diversity in Europe should be an advantage. In a sense, .EU crosses barriers and overcomes the distinction that separates the various European countries. As with all new extensions, I hope website development and promotion rolls out in force to get the general public familiar with .EU.

[StockDoctor]

in some european countries it is very easy to get a trademark. Every one can apply for a trademark in a European Country.

Freddy

Why is that Freddy?

[FreddyS]

Why is that Freddy?

Hi Stocdoctor,

different laws in different countries.
For example in France you can protect everything as a trademark without problem until someone contradict. Thats one of the reasons why google has so much problems with searchterms in France.
In BeNeLux, it is also very easy and quick, you get a confirmatino within few days, and thats in BeNeLux enough to apply for a .eu!

Freddy

[FreddyS]

.EU will be pretty significant. The diversity in Europe should be an advantage. In a sense, .EU crosses barriers and overcomes the distinction that separates the various European countries. As with all new extensions, I hope website development and promotion rolls out in force to get the general public familiar with .EU.

I think, as soon the people start print the website with .eu on their businesscards Eurid has won.

Freddy

[DNWizardX9]

what language do we register .eu in? I am surprised as i thought these would be registered in other languages other than english since we're talking about germany and france??

so do you suggest regging english names? french? german?

[FreddyS]

what language do we register .eu in? I am surprised as i thought these would be registered in other languages other than english since we're talking about germany and france??

so do you suggest regging english names? french? german?

English is always good, on our newsletter http://www.eurodns.com/info/alerts/08122005.php you see where the applications are coming from. The Point is, that I see that the most targeted keywords are primary english then the national language.
1. English
2. German
3. French

Freddy

[stuff]

I think all the guys that applied for the very good names also have the Trademark.

Freddy

Really? Do You think that the guys who applyed to generic with theyre fake TM-s will get the domains? domains like sex.eu, tickets.eu ...?