LLL.eu's - Do you think there will be a high demand straight away ?

[gazzip]

Hi all - any ideas what LLL.eu's will be worth within the next year ? I know this is just speculation but do you think companies would be willing to pay x,xxx for them - If not, what do you think their value may be ???

Will it take years before they reach this or more ??


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[deleted984054565403]

If you're interested in .eu domains, use .us as a reflection. Right now there isn't major competition for .us domains. I'm not too up-to-date on .eu domains, so I'm not sure if they'll allow you to register 1-2 character names (hopefully someone can clarify).

But as soon as .eu registrations open, you really don't lose anything by getting real words or pronouncable 3 letter words. If you hold on to them for a couple years I'd imagine they'd have some value, there seems to be deep interest in .eu names at this point.

 

[wot]

2 letters/characters were available but like most of the eu names they have been grabbed via various companies/entities formed solely for the purpose of getting the .eu names.

If you are lucky enough to get any of the .eu names I think they will have good value as the " spurious" regs will be set for parking JMO

 

[Archangel]

Just my opinion but I don't see an immediate demand for a new extension to happen overnight -- not even with a month backing it up.

 

[Chappy]

So when is this all going to happen? Can we just go an reg a bunch of .EU names on the landrush date? Is it worth trying to reg great names like "blog.eu" or "poker.eu" or "sex.eu" or will those for sure have already been taken?

I imagine the masses like us will be trying to grab random LLL.eu and the like?

 

[mcaricofe]

So when is this all going to happen? Can we just go an reg a bunch of .EU names on the landrush date? Is it worth trying to reg great names like "blog.eu" or "poker.eu" or "sex.eu" or will those for sure have already been taken?

I imagine the masses like us will be trying to grab random LLL.eu and the like?

Well, I just tried to reg a .eu and got an error message that my contact country had to be a member of the European Union.

Does that mean if I hire somone who lives in Europe to be my Admin Contact that I can then reg .eu names? :hehe:

Or have I missed a memo and the .eu domain is opening up worldwide soon?

 

[Damion]

7th of april is the start of the landrush.

 

[FanCube]

So when is this all going to happen? Can we just go an reg a bunch of .EU names on the landrush date? Is it worth trying to reg great names like "blog.eu" or "poker.eu" or "sex.eu" or will those for sure have already been taken?

I imagine the masses like us will be trying to grab random LLL.eu and the like?

All top value keywords such as casino.eu will be gone when the landrush starts. It also seems that a lot of lll.eu domains will be gone.

I think .eu will be way overpriced in the beginning and most domains will be parked.

 

[Sir Regalot]

Maybe within one week all the LLL.eu names will be gone. There seem to be so many well-funded speculative companies it would be a big surprise if at least one did not vacuum them all up. That will mean LLL.eu names will within days be worth more than reg fee.

Don't expect to reg one and two weeks later sell it for thousands. That is not going to happen with an odd headline-hitting exception. If after one year you sell a LLL.eu for 500 euros you could be making a mistake because after 10 years it might be worth 5,000 euros. In ten years time you'll be kicking yourself for selling at a tenth of the value. If you do sell in the forseeable future you will get a fraction of what you could get if you held on for the long-term. I think there will be good prices for .eu only when if falls out of living memory that you could get a LLL.eu for reg fee direct from eurid. Who can remember when you could reg a LLL.com for reg fee? That's why people will pay premium prices because they were not in a position at the time to reg one. If they were they will not buy because they will feel they've been ripped-off because they will know the person they bought it from got it for pennies.

 

[IAmAllanShore]

Straight away? Doubtful. Long run? Possibly.

One only need look to .us (A few years ago, true), or more recently .in ("Larger Market" than .eu, arguably).

With the supposed lack of genuine registrations during sunrise 1 and 2, it would seem that most users would be disappointed typing in a word dot eu looking for the most logical site... Not explained well, but too many parked domains hurt the resale value of the extension, :imho:

Just my .02,

-Allan

 

[Smith]

I don't see a large secondary market for .eu names developing short term. Outside of the initial rush of sales at the launch, and small domain board trading type stuff I think it will be somewhat minimal.

I do see a massive number of lawyers laughing while rolling around in piles of euros shortly after the .eu launch though.

Working with European domains isn't like working with .com at all, people playing large in .eu will get full out sued, no doubt about it. The fun part is, you will get sued over generic names, 3 letter names are no exception.

 

[gazzip]

Thanks guys - The chances of me actually getting some LLL.eu's is probably minimal I expect even though I have put in for just over 100 - but hey - who knows what will happen.

The way I was thinking about it was that large companies using LLL.de or LLL.fr for instance would be thinking more long term and would be keen to secure the .eu equivelant at an early date so they would not A) lose the chance of another company secureing it for ever and B) are more likely to get it for a cheaper price from a reseller.

It will be interesting to see how it all plays out - I expect lots of fighting - lots of suing and loads of moaning. :lol: But I do think they will also be popular among end users and big companies.

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