UK v EU

[retired_member6]

Have UK sales dropped? any movement either up or down, no change, too early to say? just wondering whether people are buying 20 odd country brand domains rather than one country specific? is that how it will work?

I had a black moment earlier, worrying that the 60 million people I may target isn't enough and I should have gone for 450 million instead haha but then I realised none of my sites are google so who cares... perhaps?

 

[LEEnoble]

I bet the average person has not heard of .eu

 

[Dsmiley]

Not Heard Of Eu

IS eu near England?

 

[Nigel]

Most of the .eu domains posted on this forum aren't worth a penny. Anyone looking for property, finance, shopping etc, etc, aren't going to type in .eu. Maybe after another 10 years of brainwashing things maybe different but we've had 33 years of brainwashing and the British public are more anti EU than ever. So, apart from a few exceptional generic domains (which were mainly snapped up by the Germans and Dutch) I can't see it ever taking the place of .co.uk and .com in the UK.

 

[murph]

Most of the .eu domains posted on this forum aren't worth a penny. Anyone looking for property, finance, shopping etc, etc, aren't going to type in .eu. Maybe after another 10 years of brainwashing things maybe different but we've had 33 years of brainwashing and the British public are more anti EU than ever. So, apart from a few exceptional generic domains (which were mainly snapped up by the Germans and Dutch) I can't see it ever taking the place of .co.uk and .com in the UK.

Being someone that listed a few 'worthless' .eus on this forum, i may as well comment...

I think where type-in traffic market is concerned .eu's won't be worth much...at least for quite a while (if ever). However, a keyword domain will always be sought for marketing purposes in search engines like msn (they are an easy way to the top). So if a business has the opportunity to get top ranking by using a keyword domain and the .co.uk etc have been snapped up then a .eu may seem like a great alternative...Of course the value is nothing compared to a domain that gets free type-ins.

Just my 2 cents... :mrgreen:

 

[lesurf]

I genuinely think you are better off registering a .es, .fr, .be etc rather than a .eu.

The type in traffic I've got from my .es so far has been really encouraging. I agree with what is being said here a) the man on the street hasn't heard of .eu and b) that same man on the street is one of the most likely people to search by type in rather than by search.

So, conclusion .eu PPC traffic and revenue will be poor but as with every extension a good generic is worth having for branding or SEO reasons.

 

[retired_member6]

And you can't beat owning that .com either, .eu is nice but it's very centric but a .com is universal. It's just with a new project I bought the .com as well as the .eu, time will tell if I needed to bother. If .eu is going to rank alongside .info then I've wasted my time.

I only usually go for .com / .co.uk / .net and at a push .org but found myself changing .org for .eu this time

So it's now .com .co.uk .net and .eu

So .org in this instance has lost out to .eu

I may even drop all my .org now

I'm not going to stop buying .co.uk as that's my language/central market but .eu allows for expansion to the east and .com allows for worldwide and as long as the revenue brought in covers the £25 a year set charge, no problem?

I see what you're saying from type ins on .eu and top keyword .eu but I think all these domainers with less than even good domains that I've seen on here, may have to cut their losses sooner than later.

 

[LEEnoble]

IS EU near England?

You will notice I said '.eu' not 'EU'

 

[denchomsky]

Pah!

Radio, never heared of it, Television, never heared of it, video player, never heared of it,Sony walkman, never heared of it, Ipod, never heared of it, Podcasting, never heared of it .eu .................. e.t.c e.t.c......

Give it a bloody chance, it's only a month old, would you expect your roast dinner to be cooked in 1 minute, or your Guinness to be poured in 10 seconds..? NO!

I bet most of the Anti .eu's didn't get any.

So the one's who did might have wasted a couple of hundred quid................ But the one's who didn't aren't even in the race..........:-D

 

[Nigel]

...it's only a month old, would you expect your roast dinner to be cooked in 1 minute, or your Guinness to be poured in 10 seconds..? NO!

But this is 33 years! The British public didn't want the euro, they don't like the EU and they won't want .eu - Most registrations are by domain investors who haven't thought this through and have purchased bucketloads of useless domains that will never attract any traffic let alone a purchaser.

 

[murph]

But this is 33 years! The British public didn't want the euro, they don't like the EU and they won't want .eu - Most registrations are by domain investors who haven't thought this through and have purchased bucketloads of useless domains that will never attract any traffic let alone a purchaser.

Do you blame them? God even if there's the remotest chance .eu takes off, then they're sitting on a gold mine. It's no different from buying .com/ .co.uks in 'future technologies' that may never materialise....there's always the chance!

But agreed investors that risked tens of thousands including benelux TDs have risked alot more than the rest of us.

 

[Nigel]

I'm giving my opinion from a UK perspective. The .eu may end up a success in the countries that adopted the euro but I don't think it will ever be favoured here in the UK even though I'm sure the political elite will try using .eu as another tool to kill off UK independence.

 

[retired_member16]

But this is 33 years! The British public didn't want the euro, they don't like the EU and they won't want .eu - Most registrations are by domain investors who haven't thought this through and have purchased bucketloads of useless domains that will never attract any traffic let alone a purchaser.

A lot of people on here have also bought a lot of crap .co.uk and .com domains, so whats the difference?

 

[zee]

eu...no

I feel that the eu domain was a big fix in advance by eurocrats and usa fatcats...managed to obtain some nice .co.uk domains in the rush..z

 

[Nigel]

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Codebreaker required to decipher the above. a .eu domain official would be ideal.

 

[rob]

A lot of people on here have also bought a lot of crap .co.uk and .com domains, so whats the difference?

Agreed, it seems that the tosh %age has balanced out into .eu ... the usual 'I had to catch it so it must be good' mindset hitting landrush

 

[charlie]

I think in the age of 'Europe' there is now a strong swing back to being nationalist. I think even though germans etc will proudly say they are european you wont see them driving a rover etc they still have extremely strong loyalty to their local businesses.
With this in mind i will continue to buy .co.uk especially as i understand them, if i was to buy fr or es domains then i would look to buy words in the native tounge for maximum potential. The eu for me is out in no mans land so not really interested at this stage.

Again this is just an opinion the fun is if everyone sticks to their beliefs and we'll see who wins in the end

good luck

 

[Dsmiley]

the fact remains that in the long term (yes I do own longterminvestment.eu) that european business is conducted in english, eu is also a two letter tld, also as we all know people have gone to a lot of bother to set up bogus companies to book them, many of these are already very wealth domain owners, and probably know a bit more than me, that why they have "moved here" trade marked them and done whatever it takes to get em.....never been seen before........time will tell, it will be interesting to see, that is what makes this game quite exciting....... some of the .eu do read well....Im sure I am going to see a lorry with europeantransport.eu, as a euro business it just reads better......im not so sure with argos.eu etc. just dosnt seem to read right....

 

[rob]

Im sure I am going to see a lorry with europeantransport.eu, as a euro business it just reads better......

To English speaking countries... however to Bob Spaniard it will mean sweet FA

Unless they register transporteeuropeo.eu and have that on their lorry as well!

Generally euro business is english and fair amount in german etc, but still cannot discount other countries, as thats not really 'europe' then.

As you say, time will tell

 

[aqls]

So we conclude:

Person to person activities that are local to an area or country e.g. dating, chat, medical, some mortgages, loans and debt consolidation etc will be mainly ccTLDs e.g. .fr .es etc and if .eu then will be in their own language.

Business to consumer that is local to an area e.g. Electricity supplies, local shops, etc will be mainly ccTLDs and if .eu will be in their own language.

Business to consumer that is not local e.g. property, price comparisons, etc and Business to business across borders e.g. transportation, corporate finance etc will most likely have an english representation (maybe alongside their local language version).

And added to the last category, anything that US or English speaking foreigners are likely to search for e.g. travel, holidays, armaments, airport prostitutes etc will likely be in English.

So adjust .eu registrations accordingly?

-aqls-