Man anyone is so on the wrong road if you think .eu will be anything but a big failure.
For instance,
.de is the prime extension for germany and most businesses in germany operate IN GERMANY so all they are interested in is .de and MAYBE .com if .de is taken.
If a german business operates internationally all they want is the .de and the.com
Same applies for any other european country as they all have their well-established own county codes extensions.
Much like US users are used to typein .com or as a business don't want anything else than .com and maybe .net it's the same in each individual country.
Again and again and again:
No matter how much some speculators wish the situation was different, it's just a big fat FACT that we europeans (unless it's about politics, mainly when it comes to US vs. Europe) don't consider us to be europeans but germans, brits, french or whatever.
There is so absolutely no demand or need for .eu by endusers so it's absolutely nonsense to speculate on .eu domains.
.eu will be a bigger failure than .biz and .info combined,
i even predict .la will be more of a success than .eu.
Remember my words - the only .eu names you will be able to resell after you registered them will be the ones another reseller will buy from you but i predict ZERO sales to endusers.
And then, after like 6 months you will realize it was just another bubble.
Or hold on for like 10 years in *hopes* that someday there will be something like 1 country called Europe and all people living there will identify with .eu.
Until that happens, have fun with the .eu renewal fees.
It's funny how some people still insist on the success of .eu although they don't even live in an european country but still believe things would be the same here like Europe was just something like the USA (a big country with different states) when in fact Europe is just a pot with with different countries in it, all having thier very own national identity, culture and so on.
Like, for most spanish people germany is so much different from their own country and culture like it is for most US folk when they think of "Europe".
That's the most common misconception by US folks i guess: to think there is such a thing like a country called Europe - there plain isn't.
We always laugh when someone says "I'm going to Europe for vacation" because for us it's like "Uh which COUNTRY to you go to then ? " For us it sounds like as if someone would say "I'm going to Asia for vacation" or "I'm going to planet earth for vacation".
And no, i'm not against the EU or anything, this comment isn't meant in any poitical way either - it's just about what the FACTS are in REALITY.
So, to conclude in a scientific appropriate manner lemme say this:
.eu is WISHFUL THINKING
Period.
For instance,
.de is the prime extension for germany and most businesses in germany operate IN GERMANY so all they are interested in is .de and MAYBE .com if .de is taken.
If a german business operates internationally all they want is the .de and the.com
Same applies for any other european country as they all have their well-established own county codes extensions.
Much like US users are used to typein .com or as a business don't want anything else than .com and maybe .net it's the same in each individual country.
Again and again and again:
No matter how much some speculators wish the situation was different, it's just a big fat FACT that we europeans (unless it's about politics, mainly when it comes to US vs. Europe) don't consider us to be europeans but germans, brits, french or whatever.
There is so absolutely no demand or need for .eu by endusers so it's absolutely nonsense to speculate on .eu domains.
.eu will be a bigger failure than .biz and .info combined,
i even predict .la will be more of a success than .eu.
Remember my words - the only .eu names you will be able to resell after you registered them will be the ones another reseller will buy from you but i predict ZERO sales to endusers.
And then, after like 6 months you will realize it was just another bubble.
Or hold on for like 10 years in *hopes* that someday there will be something like 1 country called Europe and all people living there will identify with .eu.
Until that happens, have fun with the .eu renewal fees.
It's funny how some people still insist on the success of .eu although they don't even live in an european country but still believe things would be the same here like Europe was just something like the USA (a big country with different states) when in fact Europe is just a pot with with different countries in it, all having thier very own national identity, culture and so on.
Like, for most spanish people germany is so much different from their own country and culture like it is for most US folk when they think of "Europe".
That's the most common misconception by US folks i guess: to think there is such a thing like a country called Europe - there plain isn't.
We always laugh when someone says "I'm going to Europe for vacation" because for us it's like "Uh which COUNTRY to you go to then ? " For us it sounds like as if someone would say "I'm going to Asia for vacation" or "I'm going to planet earth for vacation".
And no, i'm not against the EU or anything, this comment isn't meant in any poitical way either - it's just about what the FACTS are in REALITY.
So, to conclude in a scientific appropriate manner lemme say this:
.eu is WISHFUL THINKING
Period.
