.eu domains - how valuable are they gonna be?

Got your hands on one or two? What's the hype?

[adfree]

Do you actually believe that .eu is gonna fly? What's your take? What language is going to be more important, present with that domain. Does it even make sense to introduce another top level domain? Will it dilute the country domains?
Thanks for your input, Jens

[heini]

I asked a few people at Pubcon on their take, generally people are rather sceptical, which, given the the total flop the last new TLDs have been, is quite understandable.

Nonetheless, I preregistered some, you never know...

[georgeek]

I preregistered some

heini How/where do you do that? I didn't think there was any accredited .eu registrars yet.

[heini]

True, just make sure you chose one that doesn't require any fees upfront. The rest is lottery, I wonder if even one of mine gets through.

[adfree]

unidet-domains dot de is the place where they claim to have a database that will be unloaded atop of the registrar once appointed and there might be a chance to get a couple registered that way, don't really trust it, but who knows...

[Nermin]

thanks adfree for asking this question.

i actually got a e-mail (promo) about .eu and was thinking the same thing. i beleive i got e-mail for registereu.com or something like that.
it would be cool if you have product that you can deliver to world wide but otherwise i see this pointless just because how you are going to get this domain in any search engine since there is no country for it :)

plus they are expensive from that company. around 60 uk pounds i beleive.

nermin

[georgeek]

there is no country for it

What's the country for .com then?

[Essex_boy]

Yeah the .com suffix relates to a small island off of wales. Population 12 sheep population 1200.

So I guess they struck gold with that one, I belive Lord Lucan runs the registration office with help from Elvis....

[killroy]

Erm, .com does not relate to any country, neither do the other 6 non-country TLDs.

And regarding the eu search engines, there is a lot of them, I even run one myself. There is a BIG euro market, especially with the union making sales easier.

Don't underestimate the power of the european buyers.

As for the .eu domain, might be interesting, but I've learned that local markets are always smaller then global ones and more work too, why limit yourself...

SN

[georgeek]

Enhanced version of message 7. for killroy's benefit :)

there is no country for it

What's the country for .com then? heavy sarcasm

[Nermin]

we all know that .com is the one that started whole boom and like i t or not 99% users go for .com first

i am not saying that .com has country but how manny US internet users will actually check for .EU before .com

it's just another way to grab money from people. whatever happened to .ws and all the other so called "best thing after .com" domains.

if it does take off it will be high fly for 6 months.

[Shak]

we all know that .com is the one that started whole boom and like i t or not 99% users go for .com first

:)

if you say so...

.eu is gonna kick some ass....

Shak

[Nermin]

also good part of the world thinks that russia is part of europe?

is it?

will .eu include russia if it does than it should include other non eu countries. all there is difference between europe that you see on the map and europe that you seeon the paper as european union.

[Shak]

dont do politics, sex or religion myself "matey"

lets stick to domain instead, although Eastern European women are gorgeous...

Shak

[Nermin]

shak i would love for .eu to take off but i beleive it wont. maybe i get a chane to grab some domains that i couldn't on .com :)

my country is in europe so hey i would rather use .eu then .com but it will take more than that and more than europe alone to use that kind of extension in order to take off.

i have hard time seeing .eu taking off since .com is so powerful in business/e-commerce world.

but who know i might be wrong :)
will wait and see