That's probably right, Egomancer.

I see Snapnames picked up a fair amount. I didn't even see .EU on Snapnames site. Did you ?

Yeah,

I want to say that I feel scammed. I mean I payed the money and the guys don't try to register the domains I payed for - this is not good... I mean I can understand that someone can be quicker, but at least you should try...


Egomancer

So Lee did you get your 100 domains?

whois : corporations.eu
whois : europeandomains.eu

A lot of EuroDNS and Dotster clients are going to be heartbroken today.

I have the same feeling :)

And furthermore, I can not get a refund or something to buy some other domains that are free...

Egomancer

You guys did realize that there's no refund if they don't get the names right? Not much incentive for them to even try.

so Dotster didnt get anything for anyone?

i havent heard from them anything yet :(

Dotster preregistration was free

Well,

I mean they have posted on their page that if I cancel the order BEFORE they try to register then I can apply for some other sites. Which means that I have to get a refund.
If they would have tried to register the domains, they would have registered the ones that are still free...

Egomancer

yeah rigth

www.whois.eu still down for me :waaaaahh

Works for me, but VERY hard...

Egomancer

Ok,

I got ONE domain...

itmarket.eu :)

Officially is mine

Egomancer

Looks like I got ifinishedreadingdavincicodebeforeeurodnsregistered mynames.eu

do you know why i will never register with extention different than .net .com ?

Well .net/.com can't be banned

.xxx
.ca
.usa
.eu etc can easily be

They can't be all .com/.net names

I would be interested in p.eu :)

.eu will be just a little more bigger thing than .us
thats all, people are used to coms and nets

Update...

I just logged in to my EuroDNS account and it looks like about 1/2 of the domains that were showing in their this morning before i went to bed no longer are!!!

Something funky is going on here with EuroDNS!

Regards,

Lee

any get sex.eu?

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Day 1, and there are almost the same amount of .eu vs .us domains:

.us = 998,341
.eu = 990,712

Ofcourse it will not continue to grow at this rate, but the EU does have 450+ millione people, and one of the biggest economies in the world. Do not think it will have a great impact on adult domains, but companies in the EU will use the .eu TLD alot more than US companies will use .us.

ok, seems like i didnt get anything.

nothing strange with it, since i aimed only for the obvious best names that were still free after sunrise, but still i pre-registered about 25 with Dotster and they assured me all is fine

so im truly disappointed that i didnt get a single one of that list

at 11 am when it opened i tried regging them also with NameCheap but NameCheap sysem was fucked, and it didnt allow me to get the free .eu names into the shopping cart.

So although .eu wasnt a priority thing for me, im definitely disappointed.
I had even more luck in the .info landrush, although back then i pre-ordered
names with about 20 different companies.

Now i'll try to get sure what will happen with the unsuccesfull sunrise trademark claims and try to grab some names left from that pool.

oh and B.H.M. van der Heijden must have many domains

he has 3 or 4 from my list of 25 names

congrats to him, whoever it is

van der heijden is some firm from the netherlands. i read somewhere they registered over 800 domains, or at least tried to.

one of the very few good domains i already see loading is www.onlinepoker.eu

What is interesting though is that EuroDNS is still showing this in my account for some of those 'missing' domains...

It then lists my correct info for the domain.

Regards,

Lee

You used multiple registrars?

Nope, just EuroDNS.

Regards,

Lee

Okay another update..

Looks like they add the domains to your account while the 'approval'(perhaps?) process is happening then remove them if you werent quick enough.

I lost about 64 of the ones i had shown as reg'd however i now have this message showing in my account at EuroDNS...

Dont know, they were all reg'd at the same time yet it looks like some of them were removed and others werent, something smells fishy to me but at least i have about 1/2 of the ones i reg'd including a bunch of WM related domains, the ones i was really interested in so, im happy, for the time being at least.

Regards,

Lee

From what I'm gathering so far, the guys with major domain portfolios are on the sidelines with this. Just so everyone knows.

Don't get too caught up in the hoopla.

Traffic Web Holding B.V - Yeah, they have been creative using trademarks in the sunrise period, and they have probably prepared for months for this day setting up registrars etc.

But if anyone have "lost" a domain today that they feel is theirs, then they should contact the Czech Arbitration Court (CAZ) within 40 days http://www.adreu.eurid.eu/ - oh and remember to bring atleast ?2000 to the court http://www.adreu.eurid.eu/html/en/adr/fees/fees.pdf

If it's any consolation to you.... Romania isn't EU, so you shouldn't get the domain anyway.

It would be like having a .NSA TLD for all the countries in North and South America.

Think about it. Major corporations already have their .com brand and their native country TLD, its not practical to keep adding more id's into the mix.

I pre-regged loads, but only got a few.

dealdirect.eu
madames.eu
voipfones.eu

Pretty bad results, but I haven't heard anything from Dotster, so maybe they grabbed some.

That is like comparing apples and oranges... Today the EU is about alot more than trade :2 cents:

never hurts to hedge your bets a little, KRL :)

At ?10 per .eu wholesale, then it does not hurt to have a few... even if you are bean counting domain owner ;-)))

Another update from the EuroDNS system...

Regards,

Lee

Here's my take. Accuracy not guaranteed.

I went through this with some customers a few years back with the .info landrush, and the way it worked for that was each registry got to process x number of its applications in a round-robin way, so Dotster would submit 50, then Network Solutions, then Enom, then Register and on through the total number of accredited registrars. The circle just kept going around until everyone's preregistration or landrush queue was emptied. So if you attempted to preregister the same domain name with 10 registrars, you had a somewhat better chance of actually getting that name registered than if you only went with one registrar.

I think it's the same with .eu. EuroDNS may run the registry for EurID, but that doesn't mean they had any specific preferential rights. If they did, it would give them an unfair business advantage, and all the other registrars would have screamed.

In looking at the actual EurID WHOIS, it appears that Dotster got me almost all the domains I registered with them, and EuroDNS got about 70% of the ones I registered there. This janky offbrand registrar Instra.com/Europe Registry appears to not have gotten a single domain I submitted through them... a couple were actually still showing as "unregistered" when I checked just now, and I was able to register them at that moment with EuroDNS.

I think the reason EuroDNS says they aren't certain what's going on is that there's just so much data they want to make sure that what the actual registry operator says matches completely with their records; I don't think there's any approval issue per se; I can't imagine someone is going to go through and check 500,000+ domains to make sure the addresses are real and all.

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