no matter who says what...that is your response...IDIOTS


nice to know what sort of vocabulary you have

these .eu pool auction names .. think they'll go $1k .. $5k .. $10k.. or higher?

I knew it would be messed up so I didn't bother trying to score domains, only applied for 3 names at landrush but they all failed. It's like KRL stated in this and other threads, it will be ppc and because of this .eu won't have much of a value (in the next few years) and people will avoid them imo. Even google will realise this.

What a ridiculous game! It's why I am not playing, at least not right now.

Google will be cool with .EU, I imagine. But, as KRL stated, the flood of PPC pages may tarnish the name with companies and web surfers.

.EU is just another .COM wannabe, at least for now.

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Yeah, I am sure they will. I managed to pick up a couple of really good one-word domains without having to bid for them but most of them are in auction right now and I doubt I will actually buy any of them unless they stay under a few hundred euros.

Would anyone be interested in a list of the top .eu names Pool caught?

What amazes me is the hype over .eu domains. For the huge majority of people and smaller businesses in the EU they have no use or value. You tend to either market to your home crowd (so you want a .co.uk, .fr etc etc) or globally (preferably a .com) - very few concentrate on the eu as a geographic region. IMHO they are little better than a .info domain ie 95%+ will be spam sites.

I predict a lot of domain speculators soon realising they have many essentially worthless domains. Obviously this does not include the true premium names but even those I suspect will be worth less than many (especially those outside of the EU who bought them via BS companies) believe them to be.

pool is not an american company and if they are just providing marketing and auction services for an accredited eu registrar- then there is no problem either way. pool requires eu compliant mailing info to let you participate in the hoopla.


i agree btw that going for a few thousand eu's is risky. getting up to 100 in the sunshine period though- now that would be a nice hedge. bowing out on this one would make no sense to me from a speculative position. going huge sometimes means getting that 1 crazy domain or 10 crazy domains and 30 second-teir crazy domains....

yeah, hit us up

I can't see EU ever being a huge hit unless the development to speculation ratio evens its self out.

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The .eu will puersceede the national domains when all the countries will get toghether. This is in the future (like 10 years from now on). If you want to make a quick buck it does not worth it, but in 10 years, who knows?

I think that business sites for .eu wil take off if correctly managed..

Egomancer

Planning an online based business investment for 10 years down the road is really a stretch.

Look where we were 10 years back compared to today. Everything will be revolutionized a decade from now as well.

So if you want to place that bet, I wouldn't bet a big amount of change on it.

.eu is only used by speculators, there's no value in collecting eu domains

Then you are truly living in a dream world and need to wake up to reality. There are far too many cultural, political and language differences for 10 years to be even close. The various European countires won't be 'getting together' much more than they are now (ie in certain central financial areas and the more important human rights related laws) for a VERY long time. To think otherwise is foolish at best.

For 99.9% of businesses and people .com or domestic domains (ie .co.uk, .fr etc) will remain the only relevant ones. The reality is very few organisiations target just Europe. They tend to be either national or global but not specific to Europe and that won't change anytime soon.

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