.EU extension

any latest news, or we to wait forever

[Shakil]

Cab anyone shed some light on current state of the proposed .EU extension.

I used to actively monitor all developments in 2000/2001 but have not heard or seen anything constructive for quite some time.

please sticky me with any help or info you can provide.

On another note, who actually thinks it will take off?

personally I feel that it will be huge and wipe the floor with extensions such as .Biz and .info

Shak

[Shakil]

maybe I should learn to spell, the first word is "CAN" not cab :)

[CHC]

I think that .eu will be very well received indeed. There is already a third level domain operated by CentralNIC; .eu.com and it is already a very popular choice for my domain name registration clients.

Bearing in mind that .eu.com is technically only a subdomain, when the real deal comes in I think that it will sell in the millions.

[Shakil]

I agree with your comments about .eu (although UK business' would be a small share, the big picture is the whole of the EU)

Not so sure about .eu.com though, reason you have stated above about being a subdomain is quite frightening especially if CentralNic were to go out of business.

Shak

[CHC]

That is an excellent point. You are reliant on CentralNIC paying the bills every year. However they must be absolutely laughing their heads off. For an annual investment of $35 to pay NetSol the www.eu.com bill each year plus maintaining a few DNS servers they can sell virtually unlimited sub domains at £65 a pop biannually ($100). It is literally like a licence to print money. Unless they experience mismanagement of WorldCom/Tyco calibre it is a no brainer to raking in several million a year (which they indeed do, their annual accounts are posted on ICANN's website for their .org registry bid)

The big advantage of the CentralNIC domains is that there is still a huge availability of available names. I got Oxygen.eu.com the other month for a client, an Oxygen supply firm. If you think of how much you'd pay on GreatDomains for Oxygen.com $100 seems to be quite a bargain. And, unlike those absurd new.net domains, the domain resolves in 100% of browsers!

[Shakil]

Only difference is 1 of the main reasons people choose generic .com or .co.uk domains is the amount of type-in traffic that these domains get.

Unfortunately .eu.com is not very good at that, I own Business.eu.com which is lucky to get 1 visitor per day, whereas something like Gay.co.uk or Football.co.uk gets thousands purely by type in.

.org bid, thats another kettle of fish, I have been following the nominet email list and am bored to death with that 1.

Shak

[CHC]

I'm impressed Shakil, that business.eu.com has go to be worth some serious money to someone. Even if the much vaunted bogus $7m sale of business.com from one shell company to another shell company was about as authentic as the even more absurd supposed $1m beauty.cc "sale" from one Michael Sams employee to another.

There are only a miniscule fraction of domain names on the Internet that can rely on really significant amounts of type-in traffic. Getting a good domain name, building a decent looking and user friendly site with first class SEO is a much more sensible and affordable option than paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for a single word generic .com on the off chance that some untargetted 12 year boy in Bolivia will happen to type it in to his 8086 based computer.

I do know what you mean about the mailing list, I had to unsubscribe to it because I was getting more rubbish from that than porno and MLM spams, and that's saying something.