Who got some good .eu domains?
 

I got only a few...:)

how did you get em? oh... must be registered to a company

taken from the registrar:
Specify which one of these applies to you within the Euopean Community:
Natural person resident

So, not for companies only...

wow
thanks for info
must grab some

when did the registration process start?
not the preregistration

I dont know the exact date.

btw you can grab them here:
http://www.domainelephant.com
:)

thanks!
i have read all the news 3 years ago and wanted a couple of domains badly and fully missed the launch (:

It's still preregistration... what are you all smoking?!

everything taken...
again buying from cybersquoters...
i hate it

Sunrise #2?

i just both one via them and the status of domain is:
"Pre-Registration Period - Public".
I highly doubt

what makes you think you will get them?

I dont care if not, but why not try it? :)

well, you said "you got" some nice .eu domains, while it seems to me like you just pre-registered them and in 2 months there will be a draw and there's just a few percent chance that you will actually get them

( havent read exactly everything re .eu domains, but i think it is like i said above^ )

Yeah, I should have been more specific. Not sure how does it end in 2 months, who gets the generic term domains, if for example 1000 people pre-order them.

sunrise fase 2 just started (feb 7) see; eurid.eu/en/general

so its a bit to early to be registering sex.eu etc., right?

with .info introduced 4 years ago,. most ICANN accredited registrars ( and there's like 100 of them ) accepted pre-registrations and then there was a lottery at the end

to make it more precize, f.e you wanted badly a domain name like weather.info, so out of 100 registrars you made accounts with 25, with 10 you managed to be the first one to apply for weather.info ( 7 of them charged you a non refundable fee ), and in 5 other ones there was a bidding process, and ur application was submitted only if you were the highest bidder for that domain... but at the end there was a lottery for applications from all registrars for weather.info

actually weather.info is a bad example, since the best genertic .info domains were all already acquired by cheaters who claimed bogus , often completely ridicolous trademarks in some African countries for particular generic terms in the "sunrise period"

bladehost
 

try
http://bladehost.net/domains/

hope this is of use

btw, i just emailed Namecheap one hour ago and this is their reply

any idea on how would they check if you're European resident? EU credit card?

just curious, I heve friends all over Europe and will have to ask them to register a domain or two on my behalf

i wanted to register a trademark to get one of them
may be i'll open a firm for this case

adress and telephone
may be you must send a fax to get a domain

you might be right, but that doesn't really prove residentship, for example any Chinese student that studies in Germany can register .eus, simply because he can provide address and telephone number

interresting info, thx :)

I guess it will be the same as with .us domains. You can register it even if you arent an US citizen, but they can take it away from you anytime. And since "fake" whois is not possible anymore for .us domains...

And what about generic terms domains? Nobody can own a trademark for them.

its indeed bullshit, so Im curious who will get away with it

Well explained thanks. Any idea when normal registration will open and do you have to have a company / residence in Europe in order to register?

I remember when .in came out, people spent 5 trillion dollars registering every one they could think of. Now that .eu is coming out, people will spend 5 trillion dollars registering every one of those. As far as ccTLD's go, .us is where the money is at, and pre-registration for those was back in 2002, so you're all too late. Dont feel bad though, you only missed the boat by about 4 years.

.us is worthless as far as i am concerned. all us companies should use .com