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  Over 1 Million .eu Domains and Counting
  Posted by samzenpus on Sat Apr 08, 2006 06:15 AM
  from the buy-them-up dept.
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  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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  googleking writes "Bob Parsons, CEO and Founder of GoDaddy.com, has blogged about the .EU landrush fiasco. During the landrush phase for names which opened last Friday, established 'big name' registrars got exactly equal chances of registering names as did anyone who chose to bill themselves as a registrar. Bob asserts that hundreds of these new 'registrars' are actually fake fronts for a big name US company." From the article: "Here's how it works: All the accredited registrars line up and each registrar gets to make one request for a .EU domain name. If the name is available, the registrar gets the name for its customer. If the name is not available, the registrar gets nothing. Either way, after making the request, the registrar goes to the back of the line and won't get to make another request, until all the registrars in the line in front of it make their requests. This continues until all requests have been made and the landrush process is over ... The landrush process on the surface seems very fair. But there was something wrong with the process -- very wrong."
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  Hmm (Score:5, Funny)
  Re:Hmm (Score:5, Funny)
  Re:Hmm (Score:5, Informative)
  Re:Hmm (Score:2)
  Re:Hmm (Score:2)
  (yes, it's still available)
  embiggen.eu is still available (Score:3, Funny)
  Re:Hmm (Score:2)
  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
  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:3, Funny)
  Even UKIP.eu is registered! Truly we must be on the
  Re:big in GB... (Score:2)
  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.
  iqu
  Re:big in GB... (Score:3, Insightful)
  -Grey
  Re:big in GB... (Score:3, Insightful)
  But I thought New Yorkers think New York is America?
  A better example would b
  Re:big in GB... (Score:2, Informative)
  Question: (Score:2, Interesting)
  -Grey [wellingtongrey.net]
  Re:Question: (Score:2, Informative)
  Is this a case of... (Score:5, Funny)
  The UK initially led the way during Landrush but have since been overtaken by Germany
  Re:Is this a case of... (Score:5, Funny)
  Domain Squatting (Score:3, Insightful)
  Re:Domain Squatting (Score:2)
  Re:Domain Squatting (Score:2)
  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)
  Re:.eu is useless, it's a domain DMZ (Score:2, Interesting)
  I tried to register three
  Re:.eu is useless, it's a domain DMZ (Score:2)
  But I see your point, I own various
  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.
  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:2)
  It seems to me that the grammar's a bit strange there, but i
  Sex (Score:2)
  Or something like that. You Europeans
  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.
  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 an
  Re:Other info that would have been nice... (Score:2)
  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
  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)
  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*ck
  Re:.EU is more important then you might think (Score:3, Informative)