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Originally Posted by thecat
who the hell wants .eu anyway? its just another extension, .com or country extensions are the only way to go.
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Good question. From what I can see, the majority of .eu registrations are speculative. There is probably around 500K actual business and trademark doms and most of these .eu doms (the core business section of the .eu) have not gone active yet. And the European ccTLD market is the toughest in the world because .co.uk (around 4.7M ) and .de (around 10M) are also fighting for registrations.
I think that .eu will shrink back to a more realistic size over the next few years - a bit like the .biz and .info gTLDs. The ccTLDs will be more important than .com as well as the domain tasting and domain kiting is cutting a lot of people out of the market. The .uk registry announced that it would prevent domain tasting and many other ccTLDs might follow suit. Even iREIT has been investing in ccTLDs (.de apparently).