Comments on: .eu Fiasco - The Smoking Gun? http://blog.whoisireland.com/2006/04/12/eu-fiasco-eurid-sample-registrar-agreement-smoking-gun/ Search Engines, Domains, Statistics and Analysis Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:53:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: John McCormac http://blog.whoisireland.com/2006/04/12/eu-fiasco-eurid-sample-registrar-agreement-smoking-gun/#comment-5934 Fri, 14 Apr 2006 23:24:35 +0000 http://blog.whoisireland.com/2006/04/12/eu-fiasco-eurid-sample-registrar-agreement-smoking-gun/#comment-5934 It was a chance to do things right Mike, Unfortunately EUrid and the Commission weren't up to the challenge intellectually or technologically. Now .eu is just another version of .biz or .info and the sad thing is that the people in EUrid just don't care. The speculation angle could be fatal for the gTLD. If that perception of" owned by or purchased from a domain speculator" builds, then it could make people ignore .eu completely and concentrate on .com and ccTLDs. It was a chance to do things right Mike,
Unfortunately EUrid and the Commission weren’t up to the challenge intellectually or technologically. Now .eu is just another version of .biz or .info and the sad thing is that the people in EUrid just don’t care.

The speculation angle could be fatal for the gTLD. If that perception of” owned by or purchased from a domain speculator” builds, then it could make people ignore .eu completely and concentrate on .com and ccTLDs.

]]> by: Mike OConnor http://blog.whoisireland.com/2006/04/12/eu-fiasco-eurid-sample-registrar-agreement-smoking-gun/#comment-5933 Fri, 14 Apr 2006 23:05:21 +0000 http://blog.whoisireland.com/2006/04/12/eu-fiasco-eurid-sample-registrar-agreement-smoking-gun/#comment-5933 if .COM = "commerce" or "company" maybe, because of the events you are describing, .EU doesn't mean "European"... If these events become well-known, maybe .EU means "owned by, or purchased from, a domain speculator." That's certainly the impression that's forming in *my* mind. if .COM = “commerce” or “company” maybe, because of the events you are describing, .EU doesn’t mean “European”…

If these events become well-known, maybe .EU means “owned by, or purchased from, a domain speculator.” That’s certainly the impression that’s forming in *my* mind.

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