.EU - Who got what?

[denny007]

I wouldn't register the majority of these names in .com, let alone .eu

Agree too, curoius about the huge drops in 1-2 years

[Chelsea]

I always see it from this point:
Whoever registered a domain name must have been thinking about that particular name and then made the decission that this name must be worth the money registering.

Sometimes people ( fellow domainers ) do not "see" the idea behind...coz how do we know what others think?

That does not mean that the name ain´t woth anything... honestly, there are a lot of names sold for big money that make me think "Never, never would I pay that for such c r a p p y name!".

This is one of the reasons why I am not too keen on appraisals, the one point that is never involved is the idea behind getting this name.
As stated before, I pre-registered my first .eu back in early 2002 and just a couple of weeks ago, when I finally had to confirm this pre-registration, I cancelled a lot of them.

A couple of those I got would not get any better appraisals than reg fee - but, they are all related to my company name - even with a hyphen ( yes, I do not mind hyphen, but that is another country related situation, because a lot of German companies actually DO use hyphen ).

If you ask other domainers, please, don´t be disappointed if they say "reg fee".
If you don´t want to hear that, don´t ask.

[dvdrip]

You made it personal by talking about my domain.
You had no idea who I was but you did it anyway.

Sorry but if I see domains like Job--search.eu I can't stay silent.

I'm not here to argue with you since you have no idea who I am...nor do you need to be defensive. Point being, there is no use to put people down for their domain names...they have already registered them so there is no use in it.

I was not reffering to your post.
Sorry if you can't understand what this means:
"Some of these domains in these 14 pages are worth $0 in .com"

Now, if you like Job--search.eu or .eu typos then I rest my case.

Well I was a bit hurt that somebody wrote "Please all have mercy on my eyes. I had an operation a few months ago." just after my post. I spent two years quietly working for my .eus and would have been nice to hear something more positive. But I suppose not everybody has read Hot to Win Friends and Influence People.

It's fine to talk about TLDs in general - I've done that myself - but one needs to be careful about criticising individuals. And, certainly, its a good idea to comment positively on the previous post or disassociate yourself from it clearly before posting something so blatantly negative.

And agree that join date doesn't mean anything.

P.S. just learnt my team at Doster had managed to grab another six two character .eus for me, so, if you were referring to my domains, hope that makes your eyes cry too.

You might know what you are doing but a lot of people in this forum don't.

If you are being sympathetic and positive in domains that are not worth reg fee then you are not helping any of these people.

Thanks Lee. I appreciate the comment.

I do not want to start an argument though. The point of this forum is to buy, sell, trade and chat about domain names. Dvdrip, I look at your history of posts and I must add that all of your comments are negative. Why?

I hope that you will stop and think about your posts the next time you are about to post a negative comment. Alot of these people are just getting into the industry and need constructive criticism to learn. I have been involved in several million dollar domain name transactions and trust me, I know what I am doing. I don't want to aruge with you...just please take my words into consideration.

Thank you,
Justin Godfrey

You are mostly right but some names are crap nomatter what.
Domains with 2 hyphens in a row are crap. Period.
And there a more examples like this.

I always see it from this point:
Whoever registered a domain name must have been thinking about that particular name and then made the decission that this name must be worth the money registering.

Sometimes people ( fellow domainers ) do not "see" the idea behind...coz how do we know what others think?

That does not mean that the name ain´t woth anything... honestly, there are a lot of names sold for big money that make me think "Never, never would I pay that for such c r a p p y name!".

This is one of the reasons why I am not too keen on appraisals, the one point that is never involved is the idea behind getting this name.
As stated before, I pre-registered my first .eu back in early 2002 and just a couple of weeks ago, when I finally had to confirm this pre-registration, I cancelled a lot of them.

A couple of those I got would not get any better appraisals than reg fee - but, they are all related to my company name - even with a hyphen ( yes, I do not mind hyphen, but that is another country related situation, because a lot of German companies actually DO use hyphen ).

If you ask other domainers, please, don´t be disappointed if they say "reg fee".
If you don´t want to hear that, don´t ask.

[MikeOConnor]

I want to chime in on the "idea" notion with a historical anecdote. Once upon a time, in 1992 or so, I got a bunch of domain names with the idea of building online communities. This was before the web, I was thinking in terms of FidoNet BBS systems hooked up to the Internet. That was the big idea in my head.

People thought I was completely nuts. Internet hotrods ridiculed me. Non-technical people didn't understand at all... It didn't matter a lot -- after all, back then domains were free.

Domain value is indeed partly in the eye of the beholder.

But I was completely wrong too -- my ideas were small, and were rendered completely obsolete by the fast-onrushing web. So I never did much with the domains. 'Still have 'em. Mostly parked. I have a plan for each, but need to get a round tuit. Besides, things keep changing on the 'net, and so do my plans.

Which ones, you ask? Bar.com (an online "bar", where people could hang out and BBS with each other, get it?) and some related variants -- pub.com, grill.com, cafes.com, place.com, haven.com, etc.

The lesson I learned from the resulting explosion in the value of those names? If you have a choice between being really smart and being really lucky, take "lucky".

I'm completely dumb about today's domain industry -- but I wanted to add my support to the notion that it's good to base your domain-acquisitions on a good idea. Makes sense to me...

[StockDoctor]

A lot of the newbies in this biz would profit from dvdrip's advice and avoid a lot of the hype with all these crap regs that will go absolutely nowhere. Sometimes the harsh words are beneficial to get a point across when it's needed to save a newbie and others from eternal .eu damnation. Domainers like dvdrip and other experts here have learned thru spending their own money and are now just trying to save the newbies or less experienced from suffering some of the same losses. They deserve thanks. Don't fall in love with your names, it's all just business.

Before jumping in head first, do some basic domain stats checking on these english keyword .eu names. That said, I'm all for .eu and hope it works.

[Chelsea]

Not that anyone gets this wrong, I fully agree with dvdrip and Stocdoctor and ( I did state that ) - If you do not like what you will hear about your domains, don´t post them.
As for Mike, I wish I had those ideas ( domains ) by that time. Yes, sometimes you never get around to deal with them as you want to...

Can´t think of a normal ( what is normal in this business ) person typing two hyphens in a row... but here in Germany we do have a lot of companies using one or two hyphens for their website.
Germans tend to "seperate words" more, a lot ( non-domainers ) would probably prefer ´cheap-hotels` `whatever-online´ and so on.

Don't fall in love with your names, it's all just business.

( Shame over me ) I nearly always do... They are my babies - Better my son does not hear this.

[spietreser]

Whoohoo... I finally get to show off (today I got access to my domain management!). I got:

ilaw.eu

Great for internet law, or international law!

[Chelsea]

Great name, like it!

[midnightnavy]

elaw would have been better, don't yeh think? But in some rare cases, like yours it's an worthwhile prefix to use. I myself was after elaw, but someone beat me to it. Good luck.

[Chelsea]

...internet law, or international law!

Somehow I prefer the "i" here.

[rambo3]

i used domainmonster and got this lot about half what i pre-registered.
1stpoker.eu
360domains.eu
asksaati.eu
bagabargain.eu
bank360.eu
bet360.eu
biketyres.eu
bollywoodstars.eu
business1st.eu
cars360.eu
celebfashion.eu
changeaddress.eu
cheapdrinks.eu
cheapfood.eu
cheaponlineflights.eu
cheapshot.eu
cosmeticdoctors.eu
creditcards247.eu
diamonddeals.eu
doctors247.eu
fameschool.eu
footballleagues.eu
hollywoodfilms.eu
htafc.eu
huddersfieldtown.eu
lemonandlime.eu
life247.eu
live-clips.eu
luxuryflights.eu
makemovies.eu
manunitedfc.eu
mealdeals.eu
milanstyle.eu
money247.eu
monstersavings.eu
movies247.eu
newdeals.eu
newlease.eu
onlinegold.eu
onlinesupercasino.eu
parisstyle.eu
pc247.eu
platinumjewlery.eu
play1st.eu
playpartypoker.eu
playpropokerlive.eu
proxy-rank.eu
puremusiclive.eu
sellitonline.eu
sport360.eu
sportstars.eu
starscars.eu
tv360.eu
video360.eu
watchlivetv.eu
watchsportonline.eu
worldsportsnews.eu

do you think they are any good.

[NameAlot.com]

yeah, "I" seems a little more versatile here with the law suffix.... but "elaw" rolls a little better off the toungue for me...

[Wot]

Have to agree with many of the posts that the majority of the .eu registrations I have seen here will be dropping in a year or two. The "really good" ones will be unlikely to get posted for the reasons that most of us already know.

Anyway, best of luck with your names guys & gals- they say there is a buyer for everything!

[David G]

What a frivolous waste of money.

Agree, I can't believe how bad many of the names are in this entire thread. It's hard to believe names like mentioned here would be pre-regd as so many are without any value at all or semi-worthless.

P.S. It appears most all the truly good names were taken by places like pool.com and others with last minute trademarks, or multiple connections via the many semi-fake registrars they setup only for this purpose. The entire affair was a sham and should never have been permitted to happen by the registry what with their insanely easy Benelux kind of trademarks and new .eu registrar rules.

[Banned: domain newbie]

there is no single .eu yet developed !, i look forward for jobs.eu to be developed- for my yobs.eu at least

no rush no rush..

[typeins]

haha i couldnt have said it better myself, most of the eu names ive seen kicked around i wouldnt even spend $7 on if they were .com.

Sure i reged like 3-4 .eu's just to have a couple for the hell of it, but i hardly expect them to be worth anything in the next 10 years lol Some of the prices i have seen thrown around for these names are insane.

Agree, I can't believe how bad many of the names are in this entire thread. It's hard to believe names like mentioned here would be pre-regd as so many are without any value at all or semi-worthless.

P.S. It appears most all the truly good names were taken by places like pool.com and others with last minute trademarks, or multiple connections via multiple semi-fake registrars they setup only for this purpose.

[Mr. Deleted]

Agree, I can't believe how bad many of the names are in this entire thread. It's hard to believe names like mentioned here would be pre-regd as so many are without any value at all or semi-worthless.

P.S. It appears most all the truly good names were taken by places like pool.com and others with last minute trademarks, or multiple connections via the many semi-fake registrars they setup only for this purpose. The entire affair was a sham and should never have been permitted to happen by the registry what with their insanely easy Benelux kind of trademarks and new .eu registrar rules.

beneluxtrademarks.eu is still available

[canadiankits]

I got whosname.eu with GoDaddy
I have another domain that says
Pending Application - Public
I don't know what is going on...

[Banned: LeeRyder]

haha i couldnt have said it better myself, most of the eu names ive seen kicked around i wouldnt even spend $7 on if they were .com.

Sure i reged like 3-4 .eu's just to have a couple for the hell of it, but i hardly expect them to be worth anything in the next 10 years lol Some of the prices i have seen thrown around for these names are insane.

if info's can sell for x,xxx, I see absolutely NO reason why .eu cant triple that success.
Remember, it took free info giveaways for those to attain any type of success.
Do you know of any popular .info site to this day that you visit?

[typeins]

Cant think of a single .info site i ever visit?..