That is not correct - EuroDNS is just showing "taken" for any domain that has had a application in the sunrise (no matter if the application has later expired) + those domains that have been pre registred via them (which just means that they cross them off in their internal ordering system - NOT the official whois.eu db). EuroDNS have no more edge than anyone else.

So if you saw a domain as "taken" yesterday in the EuroDNS system, then you should have checked the whois.eu, and if the appilication had expired, then you should just had found another registrar where the domain had not been pre registred/ordered.

Like polish_aristocrat said at this time its a lottery ticket system - that includes any domain you have pre ordered via EuroDNS.

Ok haha. Eurodns is super fast here and I registered and paid for about a dozen domains. All top keywords so if what you say is true then i just made millioneeeeeeeeeesseee

Im talking about changing from 'free' to 'taken' within the space of 5 minutes, not days ;)

Regards,

Lee

Why does everything I read say it is NOT a lottery? It says on Friday it's first come first serve. Someone please explain this or is every site on the internet making shit up?

Yep thats rite

All domains i have registered this morning are now parked at Sedo...

http://www.corporations.eu

http://www.europeandomains.eu

Plus about 100 others :thumbsup

Lottery ticket my ass :321GFY

Regards,

Lee

Ok - its not a lottery, where they will random choose a winner... however the way the landrush will work, then it will basicly be random which registrar that will hit the domain first.

Lottery because most ( or many ) people pre-registered domains.

So if you have f.e 100 registrars and in each of them a different person pre-ordered a particular .eu domain, and each of the registrars were saying they are gonna submit the application at the very first minute today, then its basically a lottery on who will be faster. Yes, first come, first served, but overall its close to a lottery.

That was at least the case with .info and im 99% sure its similar now.

edited: Rolo said the same, just shorter :)

Post all your 100 domains that you think you own, so we can check if you are correct... you have nothing to loose, if you are correct :-)

let's not forget the 1600 shell registries created for this as well.

They are the only 2 anyone needs to know about :)

Why dont you post your list of domains too? :winkwink:

Regards,

Lee

Slow slow slow .. damn.

Lee, can you manage the DNS etc for your domains?

If yes, then you own them, if not, then we dont know yet...

I can't hit it at all, annoying as shit.

I've just been waiting to checkout. Each step in the process is taking several minutes if it even works.

Ok, I just went ahead and registered a ton of just EXCELLENT domain names, but I just cant believe it.

brujah, do you know how the exact process with the sunrise names with no valid trademarks will look like ?

No clue yet, i keep timing out trying to log back in.

I just set the DNS up for SedoParking on all the ones i ordered and they are showing up on sedo and in the EuroDNS site as owned and parked at Sedo.

As soon as i can get access to login ill confirm :thumbsup

Regards,

Lee

wow, looks like I lost one even between the time it took me to enter them, and checkout.

Yeah its been taking a load of hitting the back button and rehitting submit for me all morning to.

Good luck with your purchases bro :thumbsup

Regards,

Lee

I believe they get put back in the available pool a specific # of days later.

ah bummer i cant get any

I'm jealous, and I still don't understand everyone here saying he doesn't have them. When the main register says a domain is available there's a damn good chance it is. :upsidedow

i use my server at hosting company in europe to get to the site.. loads fine here.. you need to keep on trying hehe

not able to set any dns yet ofcourse - everything i registered is probably not available after all anyway

Hook me up! lol

Thanks,

I think I picked up a few dozen. I'll probably sell them all next week $200 ea. :1orglaugh

Affirmative.

I CAN change my DNS settings on all of these names :thumbsup

Good luck everyone with your registrations :thumbsup

Regards,

Lee

Since I lost one in the checkout process, I think odds are good if you paid for it through this registrar.. you got the name.

I preregistered 20 (actually a friend of mine that lives in the UK is getting them on his name) and all of them have pending status on my account, but all of them went from availible last night to registered today, so hopefully I'll get at least 3-4 of them

Now if I could just load the site I'd be set. I did get it to load once, to tell me that domain was snatched in the 20 minutes I've been waiting. :1orglaugh

Edit that, it actually went through for me earlier but the page never loaded so I missed it. Too bad it wasn't one of the great ones. :disgust

congrats, although we dont know these names :)

not sure about that. i paid thru eurodns. when i get to 'my domains' in profile it still lists them under 'pre registration' and not yet under 'registered'. but its not even hour ago that i registered them though. i think european lee is bsing. if not, post a snapshot of the eurodns window where it says 'registered domain list'.

anyone using Pool for it?

they are the best guys in backordering so they might be good in getting the best .eu names too

but they have an auction process, so its useless for me

My question is what are the other registrars doing now that they are openly available? I got one through godaddy just to see and it shows the Pre-Registration Period - Public in status.

Also, what should the market be like on .eu? It will be second only to .com no?

I have a bunch added through Pool too, and noticed some said Accepted and others said Unverified when I entered them. I'm hoping it means Unverified meant no one else had added the names previously, and I'll get them without auction. I can't wait to see how the auctions look on these.

others can dispute registrations btw. it's probably not a good idea for non eu presence people to be too specific in here. an eu entity with good eyes and legal can make things difficult...

its either that or he is simply aiming to low, I'm sure you can register almost any 2-3-4 word domains at this stage except for domains like cellphones.eu, mortgagerates.eu etc.

True enough.

Wonder if sex.eu will have something like that happen to it?

Regards,

Lee

Isn´t that how most gay men come on to straight men in public restrooms? "I´ll show you mine, if you show me yours" :helpme

Hahaha go on, you know you want to :winkwink:

Regards,

Lee