ccTLD Is .Eu a Better Extension than .ES to Use With American Words to Flip?

Planet9 · Mar 12, 2014

Will I get more offers using an American Word.eu instead of American Word.es assuming the word(s) are available for both extensions. Will they each have the same appraisal value? Thanks for your input

jmcc · Mar 13, 2014

Forgive me. I'm laughing so hard that it is difficult to type.

The .EU ccTLD has been quite a dead zone for American English words and phrases because of the massive overspeculation that occurred during its poorly implemented Sunrise phase and the abject plundering of the ccTLD during its Landrush phase by non-EU speculators (US/Canadian/etc). Many of these American English orientated portfolios were sold at a loss or subsequently dumped. The EU itself has approximately 27 different languages and it is wrong to consider it as a single language market TLD. In terms of the main English language market, .EU isn't even a player as most of the market focus for Ireland and the UK is on the .IE/.COM and .UK/.COM TLDs. (There are over 10 million .UK domains and only 320K or so UK registered .EU domains) the other aspect about using American English terms in .EU is that .EU ccTLD is restricted to residents of the EU (and Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway) and people and companies in the US are not typically allowed to register .EU domain names unless they use a front company and that isn't worth it for a single domain name. The .ES ccTLD, from what I remember, is not so restricted in terms of registrants.

Regards...jmcc

Planet9 · Mar 13, 2014

Thanks JMCC Here is why I asked

I just signed up for SEDO & noticed that most their bids for American Names on ccTLD's seemed to be with Eu that quite surprised me. I feel better about using es now for single American words. One question I do have to ask you though is if SEDO & Valuator indicate you should list something for $1999 as a Buy it Now, are you best dropping the price to $1,000 and so on, if you're just trying to flip the name as soon as possible? Again thank you for your input.

jmcc said:
Forgive me. I'm laughing so hard that it is difficult to type. The .EU ccTLD has been quite a dead zone for American English words and phrases because of the massive overspeculation that occurred during its poorly implemented Sunrise phase and the abject plundering of the ccTLD during its Landrush phase by non-EU speculators (US/Canadian/etc). Many of these American English orientated portfolios were sold at a loss or subsequently dumped. The EU itself has approximately 27 different languages and it is wrong to consider it as a single language market TLD. In terms of the main English language market, .EU isn't even a player as most of the market focus for Ireland and the UK is on the .IE/.COM and .UK/.COM TLDs. (There are over 10 million .UK domains and only 320K or so UK registered .EU domains) the other aspect about using American English terms in .EU is that .EU ccTLD is restricted to residents of the EU (and Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway) and people and companies in the US are not typically allowed to register .EU domain names unless they use a front company and that isn't worth it for a single domain name. The .ES ccTLD, from what I remember, is not so restricted in terms of registrants.

Regards...jmcc

Kate · Mar 13, 2014

If you want to sell domains, you need to pick better extensions. And the keywords should fit the extension.
Do not trust automated valuations, they are a joke.

Planet9 · Mar 13, 2014

Delete Why isn't there a delete button?

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