Hi ,
I found a few product-related .eu domains. English words with best GAKT search results in UK and Ireland. What makes me hesitate:cy: is that the co.uk 's
are already regged.Need some help with this most of 'em have two words.
Well the .eu is not regarded as an important TLD in Ireland or the UK. In real terms, the numbers of Irish owned .eu domains is only around 9000. The number quoted by EUrid included .eu domains cyberwarehoused by Dotster, Ultsearch etc who use Irish front companies to warehouse their domains. The usage of .eu domains in Ireland closely resembles that of Irish owned .biz domains. The key TLDs in Ireland are .ie ccTLD and .com TLD. Between them, they would have almost 80% of the Irish market. In the UK, a number of non-EU operations used UK companies to register .eu domains in the Landrush. This would account for much of the UK's .eu footprint. The UK's main TLDs are .uk ccTLD (over 9M domains) and .com (probably around 5M).
The only .eu sites advertised in the Irish media are Brussels propaganda sites. Nobody uses .eu as their primary brand here. The main thing that .eu websites are used for is gateway sites for accessing the EU country level markets. And even then most businesses will try to register their domain in the target market's ccTLD.
The main countries registering .eu domains are Germany, France, Holland, Poland and the Czech Republic. Apart from those countries there is no significant new registration volume from most other EU countries. Germany accounts for most new .eu registrations each month so you might be better off targeting German language keyword domains.
I did a graph of .eu new registrations each month since 2007 versus deletions and it appears that .eu is a deeply dysfunctional ccTLD with a mini-Landrush Anniversary drop each May from 2007 to 2011. In healthy TLDs, there is a large drop on the first anniversary of the Landrush and a slightly smaller one on the second. But with .eu the repeating drop is significant.
The other thing, but you probably already know this, is that there is a residency/business location requirement for .eu domain registrations.
Regards...jmcc
