silverman567

I've pregestered a few .eu's already.

What does everyone think about them? Do you see future potential value in them?

Discuss...

bensontwenty

Silverman - I hope you haven't spent any good hard earned cash on your .eu registrations. If you look at the home page of the European Registry of Internet Domain Names (or Eurid for short) at www.eurid.org , you will see a big sign in bold that says

The system of prerigstration is merely that at a millisecond after the domains are made public, all of the numerous organisations that are 'selling' preregistrations are going to attack the registration channels at a great rate of knots. You may have preregistered a number at one registrar, whilst others may have done the same at many others. Only one registrar will succesfully get each name on behalf of its client and what about those registrars that have taken orders for the same domain from a number of people - they will then start a bidding frenzy and who will lose out - us!!! The system is something similar to Pools drop service.
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In addition to this, trademark holders will have a sunrise period during which they can registrar all of their relevant domains.

Hang fire and if you have paid money up front then ask for a refund!

marcuss

There are a lot of registrars where they allow to "preregister" in their own local system, that is going to be used if they are accepted as .eu registrars.

Some of the registrars only charge the money when/if a domain name is successfully registered, I suggest you use one of those.

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Wesley

I think they will be very big. Not too big, but good for targeting Europe. Yeah, you can't pre-register yet... He has a good point... Hope you get those domains!

Anyways, I assume they are allowing non-EU residents to register EU domains?

andersdb

From what I understand eu domains wil be limited to eu registrars and residents. Also agreements will be signed with EURid rather than ICANN. Considering the complexity of most eu beaurocracy and the involvment of 25 countries, I wonder how it is going to develop. IMHO most of the better names will be picked up during the "Sunrise Period" before we ordinary citizens even get a chance.

mole

It will be April 2005 before this .eu rolls out to the general public, so loooong more way to go. It will be interesting to see how the sunrise wil play out.

For me, I'd rather focus on what's available now since the pickings are still good on other namespaces. And slam home a couple of .eu waiting lists when the registrars become known. No worries if I don't get any .eu

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Raf

To tell you the truth I don't know how sucessful .edu domains will be, however you never know what could turn out when released to the public. As long as the price is reasonable, it might have some success rate.

silverman567

yeah, I used a free pregistration service from a legitimate company EuroDNS.com - there's a queing sysytem if more than one person goes for the domain. Ive got a feeling that, eventually, the domains will be only available to us Europeans - sorry yanks!

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Raf

Yeah you might be right silverman567, there will be probably be no chance of foreign users registering .eu domains.

gottaSUMMER

I do not think I am interested in .eu domains, I live in the USA, and it sounds cool, but those .EU domains seem alot like the .US domains... never really caught on TOO MUCH.

a domain with .us or .eu, both sound cool, but in all reality, who really likes .us or .eu domains, they are more of a novilty than a domain in my opinion.

Best Reguards,
Mitchell

marcuss

I think it'll be huge!
I mean, now with the new countries/members in the European union there are definately a lot of companies that have the whole EU as the market and what tld would be more suitable than .eu?

..but as mentioned before, probably all the best domains will go during the sunrise period.

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modman

Agree with Mitchell. And at the moment country TLD are very populair in Europe. I think in the first stage only big companies and domain squaters will register those EU domains. Small companies and individuals will stick with their country domains. How the future of EU in say 5 or 6 years will be is to see. It could grow but also become unpopulair.
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An indicator could be the fact that the EU is not very popular with most of the EU citizens.

gottaSUMMER

I do, however have a suggestion, I am a fairly new member of this community, and I feel warmly welcomed.

I think that it is important that everyone that wants to make some money out of this, should just buy a domain or two, and sell um... and cash out.

But, something that is important to remember is that you need to buy domains that someone would actually... WANT.

I have no single idea on what it is like to sell domains, I have never done that. But, if they are worth money, but .eu domains, and sell um to people in europe.