Is EU Domain a Failure

[anurag]

EU Domain a Failure

I was reading some article and just wanted to know that is it worth registering EU or it is a failure

Vote for this and let users decide it.

 

[Binfus]

To those who've been around a while, it all seems like de javu as it was pretty much the same for .info, .us. .biz, etc....Now a few years down the road the consesus seems to be that while things are just so so for .biz, .info & .us are well on track to steak out a prety decent space for themselves on the ever expanding Internet landscape. IMHO, its not just childish but almost hillarious that some folks already seemed to have knocked down the fate of not only the extension thats just a few months old (.eu) but also the one which is barely out of the womb (.mobi).

 

[Domainate.com]

To those who've been around a while, it all seems like de javu as it was pretty much the same for .info, .us. .biz, etc....Now a few years down the road the consesus seems to be that while things are just so so for .biz, .info & .us are well on track to steak out a prety decent space for themselves on the ever expanding Internet landscape. IMHO, its not just childish but almost hillarious that some folks already seemed to have knocked down the fate of not only the extension thats just a few months old (.eu) but also the one which is barely out of the womb (.mobi).

It's not as if there aren't any extensions that don't seem to really be going anywhere in value, like .name and .ws. Take .biz even...after all this time, hardly any 5-figure sales to speak of. I actually thought by now it would have gotten at least some more kudos for business related names, (product name).biz, etc., but it doesn't seem to be panning out that way. It doesn't get much worse than .name or .ws, both of which seem to increase slower than inflation even. :/

 

[Binfus]

It's not as if there aren't any extensions that don't seem to really be going anywhere in value, like .name and .ws. Take .biz even...after all this time, hardly any 5-figure sales to speak of. I actually thought by now it would have gotten at least some more kudos for business related names, (product name).biz, etc., but it doesn't seem to be panning out that way. It doesn't get much worse than .name or .ws, both of which seem to increase slower than inflation even. :/

Well, then using this standard of aftermarket sales if we compare .eu and .mobi with ALL of the newer extensions.....I mean not just the likes of .biz, .ws and .name but also .info, .us. .cn, and .in, and the IDNs, etc ....can we show the kind of sales for ANY that .eu and .mobi already have had so early after their roll out.

 

[bluesman]

Yes, dot EUs are a disaster. Other equally bad ideas would be dot AF and dot AS. Meaning that nobody cares about Europe, Africa or Asia - because it's all about the USA - the inventors of the internet, baby!

That's why only the dot COM will always rule.

 

[Binfus]

Meaning that nobody cares about Europe, Africa or Asia - because it's all about the USA -

Someone needs a short lesson in history....

 

[vitalir]

I have some very nice .eu domains for sale here on Namepro's at Euro 10 each and nobody wants them. I think even if I gave them away for nothing nobody would want them. So...maybe that gives you an idea of just how popular they are. I think the .Mobi names are heading the same way.

mm.. what are your good names? for one of my good names - hyper.eu I got 2K EUR offer - that gives an idea of how popular they are..

 

[jmcc]

mm.. what are your good names? for one of my good names - hyper.eu I got 2K EUR offer - that gives an idea of how popular they are..

Getting an offer for a domain is not the same as selling a domain. New domain registrations in .eu has fallen off dramatically from the tends of thousands of domains in landrush to a few thousand a day now. And perhaps even a thousand of those are sunrise phase domains being activated.

Regards...jmcc

 

[Damion]

I see .eu sales popping up regularly *shrug*

 

[binaryman]

Dropped all my .EU domains to 5 Euro. See on the Domains for sale at fixed price section here on Namepro's. And guess what? Yes , I still cant sell them. And they are not bad names at all. Maybe I'll have to pay someone to take them :bah:

 

[vitalir]

New domain registrations in .eu has fallen off dramatically from the tends of thousands of domains in landrush to a few thousand a day now.

Of course - because all the good are taken. This is a limited resource as someone said, and the resource is gone now.

Dropped all my .EU domains to 5 Euro. See on the Domains for sale at fixed price section here on Namepro's. And guess what? Yes , I still cant sell them. And they are not bad names at all. Maybe I'll have to pay someone to take them :bah:

Seen your domains.. the reason seems very obvious to me: something that works in well-established monsters (.com), won't work in the young ones. This sort of names may be very valuable in .com though..

 

[aki]

Well from a regular persons viewpoint.. I see .com as the de facto tld..
.net is ok too, but seem a bit more underground for a company..
It's as if they didn't get the .com so they went for the .net instead..

I think a lot of people feel the same way, .com shows a professional front end for companies, while if we see a site on .eu it gives a whole other vibe.. Same with everything but .net.

.org on the other hand, works well for stuff that is usually free, or is related somehow to more internet related things.
I mean google.org wouldn't be that bad, would it?