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Not really. The .EU has over 3 million registrations and is widely recognised. Those pseudo-gTLDs like eu.com really don't have the same reach or brand recognition. Those two things matter when it comes to valuation. At least with a ccTLD or...

The .EU is no competition for the local ccTLDs. The typical second choice TLD in the EU is actually .COM. Just from the Irish hosting market stats. the .IE is around 325K. The number of Irish hosted .COMs is around 120.6K. The number of Irish...

There's a number of English language keywords that seem to be registered across all ccTLDs. Many of them are brands, 3Ls or high value keywords. The other side of ccTLDs that is not immediately obvious is the percentage of unique (only appearing...

There's a long story behind that. It was intended to be the replacement/alternative for .COM in the European Union but the European Commission politicians screwed things up. (The main details are in the free to read pages of the book in my sig.)...

The problem seems to be the redesignation of a non-premium domain name as a premium domain name with a higher renewal fee. From the API logs mentioned above, it seems to have changed status. Establishing its status before the change (ideally just...

The .EU is a truckstop or gateway TLD where users go before being directed to a registrant's primary website in another TLD. Development in .EU is around 18%. The .EU seems to run a lot of promotions but it just cannot compete with local European...

It is no use blaming the registrars for these redesignations and fee increases. The changes are outside their control. They are completely down to the registries and the contracts that they have with ICANN allow for the renewal fees to be changed...

All gTLD registries have ICANN oversight and have signed contracts with ICANN. The registries can increase the renewal costs whereas the .COM./NET contracts are much more restricted on price increases. That premium designation is a problem for...

ICANN's CZDS? It only covers the gTLDs at the moment and a full day's gTLD zone files download is about 7GB. The registries have to approve the request for access. These are zone files and include the nameservers and other data. What the CZDS...

The .INFO is beginning to split into two TLDs due to the higher priced renewal fees. There's a discounted TLD and what is almost a brand protection TLD in one. Some single keyword domain names may be more valuable but it was the initial free...

Technically, ccTLDs have their own rules but they don't generally take away domain names from registrants like that. It is bad for business. There are some threads here about Covid related domain names being frozen by ccTLD registries (I think...

Not tracking .AI but it is a repurposed ccTLD and outside ICANN gTLD rules. Even the old gTLD WHOIS on port 43 system for the gTLDs is falling apart due to the vandalism of GDPR. The "moving to a different server" excuse makes sense given the...