Value Of .EU Domains?????

[binaryman]

The potential of .EU domains could have been realised if restrictions had been put in place on how many domains an individual or company would be able to register. For example, a maximum of 2 to three names per individual in the landrush. So many names are now going to be snatched up during the Landrush that the chance of getting a nice domain is very small. Therefore I,m afraid that
most of the .EU domains will end up only having landing pages with for sale notices belonging to SEDO,Afternic,Adsense and other domain parking services so that after a while the average internetter will have no more interest in typing in the .EU extension anymore.

 

[Leading Names]

The potential of .EU domains could have been realised if restrictions had been put in place on how many domains an individual or company would be able to register. For example, a maximum of 2 to three names per individual in the landrush. So many names are now going to be snatched up during the Landrush that the chance of getting a nice domain is very small. Therefore I,m afraid that
most of the .EU domains will end up only having landing pages with for sale notices belonging to SEDO,Afternic,Adsense and other domain parking services so that after a while the average internetter will have no more interest in typing in the .EU extension anymore.

I think the extension is doomed from day one.

In addition to what you said, which I totally agree with…

- .EU won't be able to compete with existing extensions like .co.uk, .de etc. These ccTLDs are widely accepted and used within European countries.

- Very few businesses do business on European scale; the vast majority are local or national with the remaining usually operating internationally (including outside of the EU, where .com would be more appropriate).

For those who are expecting .EU to be the next .com, forget it.

- Rob

 

[NameAlot.com]

I think the extension is doomed from day one.

In addition to what you said, which I totally agree with…

- .EU won't be able to compete with existing extensions like .co.uk, .de etc. These ccTLDs are widely accepted and used within European countries.

- Very few businesses do business on European scale; the vast majority are local or national with the remaining usually operating internationally (including outside of the EU, where .com would be more appropriate).

For those who are expecting .EU to be the next .com, forget it.

- Rob

Now there's a statement! I guess we're just going to have to wait and see. You sound just like that guy that said that computers will never be small enough for practical use. I see what you're saying, but its just too early to tell. As for me, I've argued exactly the same thing, but at the same time, I'm a business man and I would rather take a chance then not hence why I pre-regged a few names I think I might be able to get. How many people are kicking themselves for not buying something like vv.com or er.com when it was available for hand reg. The same thing is being argued about IDNs also. I just think the risk is well worth the POSSIBLE benefits.

 

[stuff]

On point that is very bad, that all the good domains will go to investors hands!! And they will contain PPC pages!

 

[midnightnavy]

Every generic domain will be a PPC page! But still a few will be fully developed, I think. But than again thinking is not knowing.

:rant:

 

[Giembo]

Now there's a statement! I guess we're just going to have to wait and see. You sound just like that guy that said that computers will never be small enough for practical use. I see what you're saying, but its just too early to tell. As for me, I've argued exactly the same thing, but at the same time, I'm a business man and I would rather take a chance then not hence why I pre-regged a few names I think I might be able to get. How many people are kicking themselves for not buying something like vv.com or er.com when it was available for hand reg. The same thing is being argued about IDNs also. I just think the risk is well worth the POSSIBLE benefits.

hey mate your nickname.eu is an italian region...sunrise taken (but app pending as for now)by the local govt...sorry about that..

 

[ctc]

.EUs will become like .US
No possible comparison to the big 5, esspecially the Big 3.

 

[teamwork]

how may .us are registered till now?

 

[Zeeble]

I think the extension is doomed from day one.

In addition to what you said, which I totally agree with…

- .EU won't be able to compete with existing extensions like .co.uk, .de etc. These ccTLDs are widely accepted and used within European countries.

- Very few businesses do business on European scale; the vast majority are local or national with the remaining usually operating internationally (including outside of the EU, where .com would be more appropriate).

For those who are expecting .EU to be the next .com, forget it.

- Rob

I think you underestimate the future power of the single currency. The open market is allowing many more firms to compete on an international scale within the EU.

Another point is that the internet is steadily breaking down the language barrier. .Eu is ready to take advantage of that. Once the market develops in a 5 or more years (by that time we will have seen HUGE advances in translation technology), the value of .eu domains will have risen massively.

 

[DomainBuyerBroker]

How many people are buying .eu on speculation and how many are buying to develop?

If 90+ % are buying for speculation it's kind of like preaching to the choir.

If you live and have business in the EU then maybe there is some value there.

So, put me down for a "bah humbug" on the future value of .eu

Better yet, put me down as .pu

 

[missedcall]

Don't compare .eu with .US
25 countries...many languages...different comp names in diff countries...this tell us something....I DO NOT OVERESTIMATING .eu BUT sure will not be like .us...
MY prediction is that will bypass .info for sure and may bypass .org also in few months or years

 

[Rockefeller]

Total Registrations: 1,114,078
Reg's before landrush: 26,500

Total EU reg'd in less that 24 hours:

1,087,578



http://www.dailychanges.com/

 

[simon]

People didnt believe that Eu will have Same cureency one day. every one was sticking to their home currency. But change did happen.
Dont be surprised if .eu will be next to .com

 

[ctc]

People didnt believe that Eu will have Same cureency one day. every one was sticking to their home currency. But change did happen.
Dont be surprised if .eu will be next to .com

lets not get too excited.

It will never be close to dot com that i can guarantee you

 

[EM @MAJ.com]

People didnt believe that Eu will have Same cureency one day. every one was sticking to their home currency. But change did happen.
Dont be surprised if .eu will be next to .com

This will only be a next .com if they will open the registration to other countries outside of eu restriction. Till then only investors from EU will only rip the profits through ppc parking.

When they open the registration to everybody, I will be registering some of our business domaines as well.

My 2 cents.
Em

 

[Glamorama]

.eu is a a scandle with all those "fake" TM registrations
for generic domains.

 

[EM @MAJ.com]

.eu is a a scandle with all those "fake" TM registrations
for generic domains.

I'm not surprise..

 

[Focus]

anyone know the best and easiest way to reg some if you are NOT in europe and live in the US?

 

[EM @MAJ.com]

anyone know the best and easiest way to reg some if you are NOT in europe and live in the US?

Can't do.. here's the guidelines:

- Undertakings having their registered office, central administration or principal place of business within the European Community;
- Organizations established within the European Community without prejudice to the application of national law;
- Natural persons resident within the European Community

If you have contact to any european member here in dnf, you may want to get a favor or pay by using their business names to register your .eu domain.

Regards,
EM

 

[teamwork]

Even though there were these faked TMs in landrush, how many do you think they were? I suspect, let's say 50k TMs and also all 17,5 K of LLLs?
Let's say in total 100k were not ok and they used system's holes to bypass the sytem. That's fine.

In the first day only you have 1.1m names registered. They are not all domainers I assure you. I know many people who wanted to get just a few names, for their company, for their place, for whatever.

Imagine also all SMS all around europe. They will try to get at least something similar to their business. Maybe there are so many different cultures, languages, countries and so on, but that doesn't mean that there is no such a small European Identity somewhere inside everybody. At the end, after the blame we may give to EU (for political and economical reasons) , we use some of the benefits it gives (common borders, same currency, free travel inside etc).

So I will not be surpised if I see many millions of names ot be registered in the next months or years.

And if you think that the maturity of internet in Europe (the average one) is not like in US, and is still relevant low, there is sure to be an increase of common interest.

So in terms of registered names, I believe that it's going to be in the millions .
In no way I think that it will be compared to .com.

Even we imagine (Hypothesis) that someday we'll see the same number of reg names between .com and .eu (which I doubt), the value between the 2 I think will be different.
What I mean is that I don't believe that someone in EUrope will pay 500k for somehting like blue.com. I believe that things will be more down to earth for many many years to come.

just my opinion