.eu big summer tour.

[WEBDOMAIN.com]

EURid, the official .eu tld registry, will begin this summer an advertising campaign intended to promote the use of its extension.

The principle: show what the registrants are doing with their .eu .

To achieve this goal, EURid will send soon to all their registrants a proposal to promote their Internet website.
It will be turned in a survey-like:
"Tell us how you use your .eu and we will promote it for you..."

The hidden purpose is, of course, to bring a fresh air into the life of this extension.
Everyone remember the Sunrise periods fiasco and how they were followed by a long period of complaints and law suits.

EURid would certainly like to motivate new registrants to go in and draw a new image of this tld.

This campaign will begin in Belgium and Czech Republic in July 2007.
"Winners" will see their testimonials printed on real banners. They will be exposed in the Luxemburg train station in Brussels, a place crossed by thousands of users coming from all Europe.

.eu users, show your faces now !

 

[Sam]

So this is all the .EU registry can muster up as a "prize"? =_=

 

[dotNAMES]

I didn't really get the point...
But I guess yes

 

[dnb8]

they should give 3 months of free one year registration like in .be names and .eu would be popular

 

[Damion]

Interesting find!

 

[jmcc]

I was working on a .eu mapping project last month and out of approximately 1.77M resolving domains (from 2.15M tracked) there are approximately 1.436M websites. The current stats for these websites are:

| webtype | count(webname) | web %   | total % |
+---------+----------------+---------+---------+
| A       |         373612 | 26.0223 | 21.0975 |
| B       |          82188 |  5.7244 |  4.6411 |
| D       |          46450 |  3.2353 |  2.6230 |
| F       |          96342 |  6.7103 |  5.4403 |
| H       |         310639 | 21.6362 | 17.5414 |
| N       |           3088 |  0.2151 |  0.1744 |
| P       |         106361 |  7.4081 |  6.0061 |
| R       |         275886 | 19.2156 | 15.5790 |
| S       |           8331 |  0.5803 |  0.4704 |
| U       |           4565 |  0.3180 |  0.2578 |
| W       |         126224 |  8.7916 |  7.1277 |
| X       |           2053 |  0.1430 |  0.1159 |
+---------+----------------+---------+---------+

A: Active/not yet classified.
B: Brand protection registration.
D: refresh in webpage.
F: Forbidden or other 4nn code.
H: Holding page with no content.
N: Duplicate content network of sites.
P: PPC parked.
R: Redirected (301/302 codes).
S: Site is for sale.
U: Site unavailable 127.0.0.1 is not a valid IP etc.
W: Domain aggregation network sites.
X: Porn sites.

I still haven't finished working on the stats. The Active websites figure is continually being downgraded as I clean the index. It would not be unthinkable to see a figure closer to 10% for the number of active .eu websites.

As for Eurid's advertising plan - they should fire the idiots responsible. Eurid is a joke in Europe - so is the .eu ccTLD. If they bring their little roadshow to anywhere outside of Belgium and Cz, I think people might show up and question them harshly about the sunrise and landrush con-jobs.

Regards...jmcc

they should give 3 months of free one year registration like in .be names and .eu would be popular

Strangely, the head muppet in Eurid was also head muppet in DNS.be when the great free .be scheme was introduced. It was an attempt to make a third rate ccTLD registry look like a player. People dumped the free .be domains in droves when it came time to pay.

Regards...jmcc