jmccormac - 1:45 am on Oct 27, 2009 (gmt 0)

As to date there hasn't been any widespread success with a TLD other then .com but I do see in Europe the .eu coming more and more into play, so it might have a future?

Well that's rubbish for a start. The .de ccTLD is roughly 13.2 million domains. The .cn ccTLD is around 13M and the .uk ccTLD is around 7.8M. The .eu "ccTLD" is a disaster when it the registrations are broken down over all 27 member states of the EU. ( [eurid.eu...] ) The reality is that the EU is very much a ccTLD area where the ccTLD domain count is greater than or close to that of .com domain registrations in those countries. In terms of market relevance, the .eu is competing with .org, .info and .biz in most of the EU markets. It is only in the Eastern European states that it has had anything that could be called a success.

These new gTLDs and the non-Latin character TLDs are, in my opinion, an attempt to keep ICANN in what is increasingly becoming a more ccTLD orientated game.

Regards...jmcc