Comments on: 3 Million .EU Domain Names Registered

By: David Lye

David Lye — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 05:49:19 +0000

177 million domains at the end of 2008 is pretty amazing. However will be interesting to see how the economic turmoil plays out by the time 09 stats are released.

By: RegFeeNames.com

RegFeeNames.com — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 09:15:14 +0000

Im based in the UK and I rarely ever see a .eu domain except from when maybe a trailer from a haulage truck is in the UK.

So there are some people that use it outside the UK but most stick to there own cctld

i.e UK .co.uk
Netherland – .nl
France – .fr
Ireland – .ie

I dont think its a failure with 3mil registrations but I would bet that 50% are owned by domain investors.

Regards,

Robbie

By: Asia SEO Guru

Asia SEO Guru — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 08:43:36 +0000

Firstly, Mike is way off base (again) with his .asia comments.

And it is true that .eu may have been an early failure. I dont like it as much as .Asia

As someone previously commented, .eu sounds more government and doesn’t make one think “Europe”

But early failure, does not mean complete failure. Those reg figures make me feel that people will begin to build on it.

By: M. Menius

M. Menius — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:40:42 +0000

With 3 million + registrations, .eu may take longer for critics to determine final judgement. The speculation on the extension was over-the-top, no doubt. I wonder if .eu might get more traffic from outside the European Union than from within.

In the early days following the .US release, my geo domains received what I considered disproportionate traffic from outside the US. A majority of the hotel bookings were foreign internet users who assumed .us was “the destination”, and would directly navigate to the geo.us site. Over the years, that tide has shifted to include more Americans now that companies are using .us.

Similarly, I wonder if travelers outside the EU might navigate directly to a .eu site. Same phenomenon with .asia perhaps.

By: Daniel Dryzek

Daniel Dryzek — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:39:55 +0000

I would partly agree with Duane. I come from Poland and people in Poland use .pl in >80% but they also use .com and .eu. In Poland .eu names are more popular than .com (at least in terms of registration) but .pl is king. 1.3m .pl, 0.17m .eu and 0.16m .com.

I also see the more and more companies in Poland choose .eu as this is cheaper extension than .pl and in case .pl is already taken – they register .eu. Usually not for generic terms but for the company name.

If you want to learn more about .eu market – please look at my blog.

and last but not least – remember that .eu is only three years old now. Give it some more time, in my opinion it will by quite successful TLD, not to beat ccTLD but to coexist with country code TLDs. For companies that cooperate in European Union .eu extension is really great in my opinion. People not got used to it yet but once they do – this domain will rock!

By: wannadevelop.com

wannadevelop.com — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:02:19 +0000

All of the countries in europe already have their own ccTLD’s

The market for .eu or .asia is very limited and only a few large European based companies will pay up a premium to own a generic keyword domain.

Short term play, it was an “ok” investment if you got some of the best of the domains.. But there really is no future for those tld’s.

Best,
Mike

http://www.wannadevelop.com

By: Andrew Allemann

Andrew Allemann — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:35:39 +0000

Thanks for your insight Duane.