.eu vs .asia

[ckdomain]

Would everyone agree that .eu domains were worse than .asia domains? Yes .eu are shorter, but it seems they never really caught on. Also Asia is a way bigger market. I personally believe that .asia domains will be selling for good amounts in the next couple years. I know there are a lot of people who dont agree and that is fine. I just wonder what happened to .eu.

 

[italiandragon]

.asia is useless they do not use ASCII languages like in Europe and actually at least europe has some kind of union while Asia doe snot even exist: western people created the term.

 

[Rubber Duck]

Would everyone agree that .eu domains were worse than .asia domains? Yes .eu are shorter, but it seems they never really caught on. Also Asia is a way bigger market. I personally believe that .asia domains will be selling for good amounts in the next couple years. I know there are a lot of people who dont agree and that is fine. I just wonder what happened to .eu.

What are you sniffing?

 

[LBW]

I think that .asia domain names are unnecessary. It's too long. And I don't like it. But as we all see, I has great potencial. asia domains' prices are growing up... But .eu domain are more useful than .asia... It's shorter, better and high-sounding. I'm with .eu.

 

[italiandragon]

I think that .asia domain names are unnecessary. It's too long. And I don't like it. But as we all see, I has great potencial. asia domains' prices are growing up... But .eu domain are more useful than .asia... It's shorter, better and high-sounding. I'm with .eu.

Do not get me wrong: .eu is almost useless as well unless all European countries stop using their beloved and heavy used ccTLDs.

Ask to an italian internet user (not a domainer) what does he/she type in and you`ll get 99.9 % a nice .IT

 

[vitalir]

only time will show...

 

[VV]

Cold/Flu (with a fever).... -VS-.... Food Poisoning (with explosive diarrhea).

Which is worse?

I'm not sure, but they both make me sick.

 

[lzy]

Cold/Flu (with a fever).... -VS-.... Food Poisoning (with explosive diarrhea).

Which's which? :o

 

[binaryman]

Well I live in Holland and I notice more and more commercials on television here which use a .EU site in their commercial. I believe that in Germany it is becoming even more common.

 

[Spade]

Well I live in Holland and I notice more and more commercials on television here which use a .EU site in their commercial. I believe that in Germany it is becoming even more common.

Thats primarily because .de is the 2nd most popular TLD (thats TLD, not ccTLD) there are more registered then .net or .org.

Which means as a second option, .eu might work for them. However - both .asia and .eu are plagued by the same problems. Over speculation and not enough development to create consumer recognition.

Justin

 

[dnb8]

You can't compare .eu to .asia because .eu is for European Union, not Europe.

 

[Traveler]

Thats primarily because .de is the 2nd most popular TLD (thats TLD, not ccTLD) there are more registered then .net or .org.

That does not explain the use of .eu in Holland though.

 

[jmcc]

That does not explain the use of .eu in Holland though.

A significant percentage of Dutch registered .eu domains are warehoused/speculative (Blixem/Traffic web and a few others are significant .eu holders and have used bogus Belgian trademarks to acquire .eu domains in what can only be described as one of the most incompetently run and blatently corrupt sunrise phases ever. The ccTLD is far more popular and there is no comparative Dutch development in .eu ccTLD.

The new EU countries such as Poland have registered a lot of .eu domains in the last year or so. However there is a distinct lack of credibility associated with .eu in the UK and Ireland. Even though there are about 358K .UK registered .eu domains, a very significant percentage (perhaps over 50%) are registered via UK front companies. Among the notable cybersquatters/cyberwarehousers are Jay Westerdal of domaintools.com and Ray King of snapnames.com who used approximately 8 UK front companies to register large numbers of .eu domains. Their UK front companies have featured quite prominently in the ADR results. Other non-EU cybersquatters/cyberwarehousers were also left to plunder .eu ccTLD by an utterly incompetent and cretinously stupid Eurid. Eurid recently had to freeze approximately 10K .eu domains as they were involved in what appeared to be a massive cybersquatting operation run by two Chinese .eu registrars. Eurid failed in a court action against the Ovidio Syndicate (another "direct navigation" operation with at least 75K generics).

How those Eurid morons even got the job in the first place is a mystery as they had no experience of running anything other than a mickey mouse ccTLD. It is just another example of Brussels bureaucracy, incompetence and waste to which we in the EU have all become so accustomed.

When you break down the supposed country holdings of .eu domains and compare these with each country's ccTLD and gTLD footprint, .eu isn't even a third choice TLD. The general choice for most EU countries is ccTLD/com/net/org/info and then perhaps .eu ccTLD. The last major survey of .eu websites found that only 13.37% of the sites surveyed were active/unique. For a ccTLD that is a pathetically low figure.

The .asia sunrise/landrush was a far more orderly affair. The mad rush of April 2006 was not repeated with .asia TLD. The growth curve is a lot smoother. As of today's zonefile, there are 141772 active .asia domains.

Regards...jmcc

 

[Traveler]

Regards...jmcc

Excellent post, rep added!

 

[htmlindex]

Would everyone agree that .eu domains were worse than .asia domains? Yes .eu are shorter, but it seems they never really caught on.

Exact same thing that will happen with .asia

Both extentions have no use, in both parts of the world, each country has their own ccTLDs.

 

[ssamriga]

Right now, .eu is definitely better than .asia, and so it will be in the future too IMO.
I live in EU and companies that look for a domain mostly choose .eu right after .com and their local country tld, sometimes even they prefer .eu even if .com is still available.

 

[james2002]

A significant percentage of Dutch registered .eu domains are warehoused/speculative (Blixem/Traffic web and a few others are significant .eu holders and have used bogus Belgian trademarks to acquire .eu domains in what can only be described as one of the most incompetently run and blatently corrupt sunrise phases ever. The ccTLD is far more popular and there is no comparative Dutch development in .eu ccTLD.

The new EU countries such as Poland have registered a lot of .eu domains in the last year or so. However there is a distinct lack of credibility associated with .eu in the UK and Ireland. Even though there are about 358K .UK registered .eu domains, a very significant percentage (perhaps over 50%) are registered via UK front companies. Among the notable cybersquatters/cyberwarehousers are Jay Westerdal of domaintools.com and Ray King of snapnames.com who used approximately 8 UK front companies to register large numbers of .eu domains. Their UK front companies have featured quite prominently in the ADR results. Other non-EU cybersquatters/cyberwarehousers were also left to plunder .eu ccTLD by an utterly incompetent and cretinously stupid Eurid. Eurid recently had to freeze approximately 10K .eu domains as they were involved in what appeared to be a massive cybersquatting operation run by two Chinese .eu registrars. Eurid failed in a court action against the Ovidio Syndicate (another "direct navigation" operation with at least 75K generics).

How those Eurid morons even got the job in the first place is a mystery as they had no experience of running anything other than a mickey mouse ccTLD. It is just another example of Brussels bureaucracy, incompetence and waste to which we in the EU have all become so accustomed.

When you break down the supposed country holdings of .eu domains and compare these with each country's ccTLD and gTLD footprint, .eu isn't even a third choice TLD. The general choice for most EU countries is ccTLD/com/net/org/info and then perhaps .eu ccTLD. The last major survey of .eu websites found that only 13.37% of the sites surveyed were active/unique. For a ccTLD that is a pathetically low figure.

The .asia sunrise/landrush was a far more orderly affair. The mad rush of April 2006 was not repeated with .asia TLD. The growth curve is a lot smoother. As of today's zonefile, there are 141772 active .asia domains.

Regards...jmcc

Where do you get the figure 141772?

 

[jmcc]

Where do you get the figure 141772?

From checking the number of .asia domains that are active in the .asia zone file. Part of the work I do is the statistical analysis of TLDs and I have access to the zone files for various TLDs. The real growth in .asia will take another few months as the auctions have to be sorted out first and the Go Live period only started today.

Regards...jmcc

 

[sOliver]

A lot of german companies appreciate the .eu extension, just look at the current sedo auctions and search for .eu names.
Some go for ridiculous high prices

 

[frankiethepet]

EU is better LONGTERM... its not so good now, but its a better investment.. Cause it have potential future! ... .asia doesnt even have a future... the biggest problem is that ASIA isnt called ASIA in ASIA.