ONE MILLION .eu !!!

[Earthian]

19:52 07/04/06 : 1,003,760 active .eu domains







.eu registrations passed the ONE MILLION REGISTRATIONS mark after app. 9 hours since it was opened to the public ...

 

[Sir Regalot]

All 3 letter .eus must have gone by now.

 

[ilcesco]

3 letters .eu were all gone in the early 20 minutes.

It would be interesting to hear, by somebody who experienced the .US landrush, if there it was the same hurry and amount of registration at that time, or not..

 

[Damion]

It is believed that the .eu extension will break 1,000,000 new registrations in its very first year. In comparison, the .us extension has yet to break the million mark in its 3 year existence.

I took this part from a article on Sedo.
Now that is a difference! One year prediction for the 1 million mark but behold it took one day! *edit* 9 HOURS LOL!

The extension .US took 3 YEARS to break the 1 million mark!
The .EU extension can DEFINATELY not be compared to the .US extension!

This is MAJOR!

 

[Smith]

I have the feeling that the speculation in the .eu market is going to totally destroy quite a few people financially.

 

[Earthian]

Easy - many people in the forums claim they checked even silly LLLs and they were regged ...











the .us is a completely different case ...

- many Americans already had .coms way before .us was initiated (and did not show big interest)

- domain registrations are way more easier and way more popular now than 3 years ago

- .eu has attracted a lot of attention because of the possible profits












check this thread for detailed reporting of the landrush (esp. good for stats-junkies)

 

[matt_bodis]

I have a feeling that everybody is registered .eu's for profit and that we might have a problem finding end-user buyers for a while. A long while.

 

[DotUSDomains]

I have a feeling that everybody is registered .eu's for profit and that we might have a problem finding end-user buyers for a while. A long while.

agree with you there,

i'm still not convinved that there are over 1,000,000 registered .eu names.

Are you sure it's not names that have been registered but still pending,

I mean i have 20+ names at godaddy that show the pending/public status,and i'm sure there are 100,000's + like that at different registrars.

i know it shows that on status.eurid.eu but i'll wait and hopefully be proved wrong.

i thought i'd say this aswell GODADDY SUCKS!!! there i feel better now :hehe:

(sorry op)

 

[gazzip]

i thought i'd say this aswell GODADDY SUCKS!!! there i feel better now :hehe:

(sorry op)

Me Too - GODADDY SUCKS BIG TIME !!!!!!! :yell:


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[jkotinis]

1,033,420 till now and these are actual registrations.
Consider also the remaining 200k+ from sunrise ....

But profit expectations is sure the main driver . The longs will survive. those for easy profit maybe not. As for lll's, will definetely have some value increasing by time.

just my opinion

 

[Earthian]

I followed the registrations from the beginning of the landrush and from the "flow" (see link in the previous post) I can assume that they are referring to active domains not pending ...





there are 54,577 accepted applications from the 346,218 applications (for the 245,908 domains) of the sunrise period ... the other 950,000 seem to be from the pre-regs of the various registrars ... of course there must be many (245,908 - 54,577 - expired applications) still in application pending status ...

of course both the accepted applications and all the registrations can be ADRed at any time if needed ...













Regarding GoDaddy ...

I think that there is not enough information at the moment to start accusing left and right ...


I will list a couple of possible points ...

- many "good" domains might have been in "initial" status and accepted just before landrush ... the meter jumped form ~25,000 at ~07:00 to 330,000 at 12:10 ... I did not check it back then , but it is possible that the 54,577 "accepted" were there at that time and therefore authorised in a bunch just before landrush ...

- the domains that were pre-regged at GoDaddy were , in general , popular domains and therefore many people also pre-regged with other registrars

- the 200 - 400 suspicious companies without websites that binaryman found a little while ago might be an organised scheme to bombard the registry so as to acquire good domains

- a person in one of the threads stated that registrars could only send 1 request per second (there was no proof regarding that though) ... if that holds true , and especially if GoDaddy was not aware of it up until right before landrush the delays are justified ... if they were aware of it from before I am sure that from seeing the immense number of pre-registrations they would have done something about it eg. create a couple sub-companies and acquire accreditation ... don't forget it is to the financial gain of GoDaddy to succeed in the pre-regs ... they were making app. $8 for each one (before lowering the price) ... of course this whole point might be wrong if the 1 request per second is bogus (which is very possible) , even though it could also stand true as a meltdown prevention measure ...

- due to extreme traffic (think how many people where visiting GoDaddy at that time globally) their system could have worked much slower than expected ...











of course anyone can have his own opinion regarding these issues , but I think we should wait a little while for more information to surface ...

 

[wisconsin]

I have the feeling that the speculation in the .eu market is going to totally destroy quite a few people financially.

Smith, I think you're right...Also you may call it " risk" taking! We'll just have to wait and see!

 

[Smith]

I'm sure it will pay off for some, and I'm sure there will be a flurry of sales on the after market for the next 3 - 6 months, but overall I'm of the opinion that .eu is a dog with fleas for numerous reasons.

I'm also confident in saying that most will not see a substantial return, and likely, most will see a negative return especially in the short - mid term.

Of course I could be completely wrong, but I truly believe that I am right on this one.

 

[Ben]

I'm also confident in saying that most will not see a substantial return, and likely, most will see a negative return especially in the short - mid term.

Agreed. From the domains I've seen posted so far, it looks like quite a few people will be making a loss here.

 

[Badger]

Me Too - GODADDY SUCKS BIG TIME !!!!!!! :yell:

yes, allow me to add my strength of anti-feeling towards these guys... No1 domain registrar in the world... My assssssss.... Got caught napping guys....:red:

When i get emails from GD saying "congratulations weve submitted your domains to the central registry" at 7.00pm CET, when the rest of the .EU landrush packed up and went home some 7hrs beforehand..... What an embarresment for all concerned.. What were these guys thinking of..???

As a separate issue, I was on the phone last night to GD, 1st time to tell them that, as a UK citizen, I am a actually a bonafide Euro national, despite their registration telling me i couldnt register .eu domains because the UK wasnt a member state.... They tell me they had scripted GB instead of UK, hence the problem... I then had to call them back again to explain that despite their registration process telling me otherwise, LL.eu were, in fact, possible...

man, someone at GD must have had their ass kicked BIG TIME... 1000 domains i pre-ordered with them, how many do you think they got....???

Bit of a false question really because, as we spaek, they still havent submitted half of them......

 

[gazzip]

I'm of the opinion that .eu is a dog with fleas for numerous reasons.
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:lol: Luv it !!
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Bit of a false question really because, as we spaek, they still havent submitted half of them......

Mine either :td: - There will be hell to pay if they end up charging a processing fee for this fiasco !

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[ekal]

from a language point of view, are any domains really going to be valuable except those words that translate across Spanish/French/English/German at the least?

Ok.eu
party.eu
fiesta.eu

I can't think of anymore..

Otherwise, why is amor.eu any better than amor.es? Why is geburtstag.eu better than geburtstag.de?

 

[Earthian]

I think there is quite a lot of over-enthusiasm over the value of .eus ...


It is a good TLD with great prospects for the future ... but I think people should be careful regarding expecting immediate huge profits ...


of course there are many nice .eus which will probabbly sell for good amounts even in a couple of days time ... but you must keep in mind that .coms are still the most valuable domains by far ...


Prices will rise gradually , but as of now , I think there will be many people trying to sell their domains rather expensively ... the thing is though that .eu is new TLD and there are many very good domains (and keywords) and the supply (for sales) will probably rise dramatically ... leading to either relatively stagnate market due to high prices or to the lowering of prices from some investors for a fast sale ...












regarding what I said above about the "1 domain per second" that someone talked about ... I googled "1 .eu registration per second" and I got to a page that says 1 domain name per second and a maximum of 100 domain names for the WHOIS ... so in my opinion that person just confused that whois rule (of course I mentioned many times that there was no actual proof for that statement so as to avoid misinforming you) ...












regarding "fleas" ...

I agree that the registrations with the "&" are completely bogus and I hope EURid will step up and clean that mess ... people should respect other countries (and cities) and not try to pull that trick ...

also the 300-400 peculiar companies without websites is another issue ...

Other than that , I think we should cut some slack to EURid ... it is a new TLD , it received (and receives) a huge amount of pressure and I think we should all be patient and understanding (at least for a certain amount of time) ...

 

[MadAboutDomains]

If you check the internet stats:

http://www.whois.sc/internet-statistics/

The .EU is now bigger than the .US within the first day of open registrations... and not far off being bigger than the .BIZ

.EU is up with the big guys already... Go .EU!! :tu:

I didn't get a single .EU from my pre-registrations... but oh well that's domaining for you.

- Luke

 

[MCDomains]

I can't reg .EU's ... what a scam!!! haha