Over 1 Million .eu Domains and Counting 137
gavint writes "In the first 12 hours since "Landrush" registration of .eu Domains begun at 11:00 CET, over 1 million have been registered. Predictions of .eu becoming the second biggest domain after .com look like they may become true, with Nominet being responsible for "over four million" .uk domains, the second biggest namespace. The UK initially led the way during Landrush but have since been overtaken by Germany, with over a quarter of all registered domains. Meanwhile many "Sunrise" period applications where businesses are able to protect domains where they hold a prior right remain unprocessed, although these domains cannot be registered yet during Landrush. Over 1,000 registration agents were only allowed one connection each to EURid's servers in order to prevent problems and ensure fairness."
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(yes, it's still available)
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embiggen.eu is still available (Score:3, Funny)
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It's taken (Score:2)
The closest to this pattern (screw.eu, ihate.eu, etc) is beerfor.eu
Not that I'll register it of course
I think... (Score:1)
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Eu is the Portuguese equivalent of "I", the first-person pronoun. I think you may want to reconsider.
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My name (Score:2)
But I have got gloogle.com
Re:My name (Score:2)
big in GB... (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:big in GB... (Score:5, Insightful)
I can't think of any reason why a UK company would buy a .EU domain unless it was out to alienate it's customers, market to the rest of the EU under a different domain, or simply just bought every TLD for it's domain name.
Re:big in GB... (Score:1)
For more and more companies - in UK as in all other eu countries - the "home market" is increasingly eu as a whole, not the particular country they're residing in. Their relation to their customers in eu as a whole is as important as the customers in the home country - and a lot more impor
and .co.uk is not a mouthfull ? (Score:1)
We have a .co.uk - im moving to .eu if your activity can be done anywhere in the eu then .eu makes sense - if your 'branded' only in one country then .fr/.de./.gr makes sense there still much nicer than .co.uk is personally speaking.
We are thinking to drop the .co.uk
Politics has nothing to do with it (Score:1)
Re:big in GB... (Score:3, Funny)
Even UKIP.eu is registered! Truly we must be on the dawn of a new era.
Re:big in GB... (Score:2)
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Britain IS a part of Europe. It is a geographical fact. You cannot (sensibly) argue with it. Now there are some of us Brits, thankfully a minority so far, who think we should leave the EU but short of hiring a really large tug and towing the British Isles out into the mid-atlantic it will be very hard for them to stop us being a part of Europe.
Interestingly enough there has been far more ant
Re:big in GB... (Score:4, Interesting)
I am no geographer, but one should not underestimate the fundamental importance it has in shaping the human experience.
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-Grey
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But I thought New Yorkers think New York is America?
A better example would be Hawaiians. Do they see a difference between the part of the US that's in North America and the part of the US that's in Hawaii, or is it all just "America" to them?
Re:big in GB... (Score:1)
Well, it's the good part of America.
Point taken about the Hawaiians though. I had a Hawaiian flatmate and she always refered to America as the mainland and didn't really think it had anything to do with Hawaii.
-Grey [wellingtongrey.net]
Re:big in GB... (Score:2, Informative)
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Not so. Over the course of the last thousand or so years, we've had wars at one time or another with just about every last country in Europe, but for most of our history we've been happily at peace with most of Europe, at war with some of it, and fighting alongside some more of it.
Re:big in GB... (Score:1)
What else would Britian be a part of? I've never understood why the British seem to think themselves completely seperate from Europe.
Well, consider the fact that "Europe" might refer to "Mainland Europe", which we aren't part of, or "the continent of Europe", which we are, or the "European Community/European Union" which we are also part of. It might be used to refer to the Franco/German ideal of a "United States of Europe" which we don't want much to do with. It could also be used to refer to the econom
Re:big in GB... (Score:2)
It's because the bastards keep trying to invade us, and we know how to spell separate :-)
No, but seriously, there are serious cultural differences between GB and the rest of Western Europe.
The first area is political. In "Europe" they tend to have proportional representation in elections as opposed to the direct mandate (or first-past-the-post) of the British System. This means that coalitions are almost unknown
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-Grey [wellingtongrey.net]
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Is this a case of... (Score:5, Funny)
The UK initially led the way during Landrush but have since been overtaken by Germany
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Domain Squatting (Score:3, Insightful)
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Re:.eu is useless, it's a domain DMZ (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:.eu is useless, it's a domain DMZ (Score:2)
Hmmm, top end stuff there. Perhaps you'll become friends with their biggest fan, Faiza [faiza.co.uk]
Re:.eu is useless, it's a domain DMZ (Score:3, Informative)
why would IKEA be a .eu address? (Score:2)
They have to have a
Re:.eu is useless, it's a domain DMZ (Score:1, Insightful)
During the sunrise phases, an absurd number of new trademarks have been registered in nonsensical categories. "Sex (tm)" in the groceries category, registered right before the sunrise phase, qualifies as "prior right" to "sex.eu"?
Regis
Re:.eu is useless, it's a domain DMZ (Score:2, Interesting)
I tried to register three
So in my experience,
Re:.eu is useless, it's a domain DMZ (Score:2)
But I see your point, I own various
By the way, after spending years in London, I realise the British look with disdain against anything that is not British, the EU - which they conveniently forget they are a
EU is such a silly idea... (Score:4, Funny)
Redundancy and more redundancy for the domain registrars to make money...
Re:EU is such a silly idea... (Score:4, Insightful)
The European Union is a free trade area so there are import/export duties on goods traded with the zone. There are some businesses who would therefore treat this entire area as one and for them branding themselves under an EU domain would make sense.
A UN domain would never be used for that reason as it is purely political and not economic.
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uk.com.mycompany.www
With larger areas such as the EU, australasia, the UN, the americas etc. all having their own TLD. As long as the rules are followed you wouldn't end up with mom-and-pop 'look im running an internet shop' businesses that serve only the surrounding states and all the other regul
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And if it was introduced to solve domain shortage, I don't see that as anything more than a bandaid solution.
uk second biggest domain after .com? (Score:4, Informative)
As far as I know, Germany (over 9.5 million
Re:uk second biggest domain after .com? (Score:2)
"Predictions of
They didn't say it was the second biggest, they said it is predicted that
Re:uk second biggest domain after .com? (Score:1)
"with Nominet being responsible for "over four million"
Re:uk second biggest domain after .com? (Score:1)
Germany overtook the GB in registrations for
http://www.denic.de/media/images/monatszahlen/TLD- Vergleich.gif [denic.de]
I wouldn't bet that the
Re:uk second biggest domain after .com? (Score:2)
It seems to me that the grammar's a bit strange there, but it seems that the author wanted to say that
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Sex (Score:2)
Or something like that. You Europeans are with us on pr0n, right? China? Ok. Russia!?!?!!
Re:Sex (Score:1)
The Germans and British will be, but good luck convincing the French and Dutch.
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Don't mention the landrush (Score:2, Funny)
Don't worry, in a couple of years the US will join in and help us take them all back.
In Soviet Russia... (Score:4, Funny)
some .eus :) (Score:3, Informative)
I tried to register .eu through GoDaddy weeks ago (Score:2)
Big mistake because they apparently just held the registration until April 7th instead of helping with any sort of actual registration, so I discover that half a dozen businesses are ahead of me now in the queue.
Duh, yourself. (Score:2)
GoDaddy had no link to landrush or sunrise, but only added .eu as a domain you could purchase.
Double duh (Score:1, Insightful)
IOW, use a registrar that doesn't suck.
Other info that would have been nice... (Score:2)
Re:Other info that would have been nice... (Score:3, Interesting)
Even hours later, 1&1 hadn't registered names that were still free. 18 and a half hours(!) later those names were finally registered.
Smaller registrars were said to have completed their whole(!) procedure after 17 minutes of the start.
Re:Other info that would have been nice... (Score:1)
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1000 free domains, probably about 10 actually registered in the end. Blah.
Relatively few from France? (Score:1)
Sweden and the Netherlands for instance have more registrations than France with far less inhabitatants. Also Belgium is not that far off from France, while it's a lot smaller.
What does that say about France's EU feeling?
Re:Relatively few from France? (Score:3, Informative)
Not much, I think ; historicaly, *.fr has been reserved to chartered companies and trademarks holders, so many french individuals had to buy a .com or .net already. Many companies did, too,because .fr is f*cking expensive. This afnic nonsense is backfiring today, because those who might have been interested are avoiding "continental red tape" (we invented it, so we have developped more strategies than others to turn around it whenever possible) and will probab
Re:Relatively few from France? (Score:1)
France was big in minitel Minitel [wikipedia.org] is still a force to be reconed with ?
wiki: Minitel was often considered as an impediment for a fast deployment of the Internet in France, since it already provided safe and easy online access for many useful services without requiring a personal computer.
The bbc link in the wiki (dated 2003) reports "Despite reports of its demise, a third of the French still have access to the Minitel network and four million terminals are in daily use."
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It wasn't fair! (Score:2, Insightful)
Fairness? Please check official registrars list on the eurid web site. There are tons of clons there sharing the same address and/or telephone number just to avoid 1 connection to eurid limit.
And what eurid did about this? Nothing.
.eu? (Score:1)
For example - http://www.google.co.ck/ [google.co.ck]
.EU is more important then you might think (Score:1)
Car.eu, shop.eu, RealEstate.eu, realty.eu was gone in first seconds of sunrise preregistration. Many practiced trademarking and other "techniques" to claim even generic domain names (wich was critisized many times). Nice read is "EU Domain Disaster" http://www.eudomaindesaster.org/pageindex.php?lang =EN [eudomaindesaster.org]
Also Eurid.eu allowed only one c
Re:.EU is more important then you might think (Score:3, Informative)
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Well its official (Score:1)
THANK.EU (Score:2)
And fuck.eu [whois.eu] too.
Damn.
Rich.
When are they going to be active? (Score:3, Interesting)
I did use a European address and phone number, but maybe they are checking on a business registered at that location? How much do they really care?
Is anyone else having this type of trouble? Has anyone else been successful in getting a
Re:When are they going to be active? (Score:3)
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i've already put content up.
A Different Opinion (Score:2, Insightful)
Wouldn't it be more logical to have domains corresponding to specific thematics? (e.g. slashdot.compsci)
Re:Google.eu ? (Score:1)
Re:linux.eu (Score:2, Interesting)
Gille, Hrabal, Struck, Neidlein, Prop & Roos is a German patent/trademark law firm. I would assume that if the registration is valid, the firm is acting on Linus's behalf.
Also note that they registered in their own name also. A bit strange.
If they are acting on behalf of Linus, they will most likely (or hopefully, anyway) be granted the domain.