Comments on: IEDR Should Be Marketing .ie over .eu http://blog.whoisireland.com/2006/05/15/iedr-should-be-pushing-ie-over-eu/ Search Engines, Domains, Statistics and Analysis Tue, 07 Sep 2010 05:31:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: John McCormac http://blog.whoisireland.com/2006/05/15/iedr-should-be-pushing-ie-over-eu/#comment-23208 Mon, 12 Jun 2006 11:54:09 +0000 http://blog.whoisireland.com/2006/05/15/iedr-should-be-pushing-ie-over-eu/#comment-23208 Maybe there really is something in this Jedi mind control thing after all. :) But seriously, IEDR should do something about the blatent cybersquatting problem in .ie cctld. It would be too easy for EURid to criticise IEDR for the same thing. But Curtin really should have used the article to push the credibility of .ie more. Maybe there really is something in this Jedi mind control thing after all. :) But seriously, IEDR should do something about the blatent cybersquatting problem in .ie cctld. It would be too easy for EURid to criticise IEDR for the same thing. But Curtin really should have used the article to push the credibility of .ie more.

]]> by: John McCormac http://blog.whoisireland.com/2006/05/15/iedr-should-be-pushing-ie-over-eu/#comment-19961 Thu, 08 Jun 2006 23:24:07 +0000 http://blog.whoisireland.com/2006/05/15/iedr-should-be-pushing-ie-over-eu/#comment-19961 I think IEDR is in a very tricky position Roger, The daily number of .ie registrations is running close to the number of Irish .eu registrations (it varies though). The geographic nature of .eu also makes it attractive to the new webdevelopers and programmers entering the market because .ie is harder for to get. Students who previously could only get a gTLD now have the option of a .eu domain - not quite the geographic specificality of .ie but at least it is associated with Europe. The steep rise of the .eu has I think scared the IEDR because it showed that there was, partially, a demand that was not being met by either .ie or the com/net/org/biz/info gTLDs. It has added another 24K domains to the com/net/org/biz/info side of the equation. It was easy for IEDR to get the gullible technology journalists to concentrate on the success of .ie purely being a .ie : .com count (leaving out the net/org/biz/info counts). That's how it pitches it to make .ie look to be doing better than it is. The fact that Eurid published the number of .eu domains owned by each country and the awareness of .eu means that it is difficult now for IEDR to just refer to the .ie:.com figure. The mapping spiders running on a dataset of active (detected) .eu domains here are showing 79% of the .eu domains resolving to websites. The analysis will probably show that many of these are parked or redirected. IEDR had a good opportunity but it wasted it. The .eu is heavily squatted and there are hundreds of thousands of possible bad faith registrations. But without the facts, Curtin's angle was just that of an interested bystander. IEDR should really have been been hammering home the managed aspect of .ie cctld even though it has a small squatter problem that IEDR has not yet addressed. I don't know if the .ie ccTLD is well enough managed to allow it to grow dramatically. Perhaps the only way to grow it rapidly is to deregulate it and that would require a well engineered backend for the registry. But that would turn in it into a cesspit like .eu gTLD and it would lose what may be .ie's most valuable asset. I think IEDR is in a very tricky position Roger,
The daily number of .ie registrations is running close to the number of Irish .eu registrations (it varies though). The geographic nature of .eu also makes it attractive to the new webdevelopers and programmers entering the market because .ie is harder for to get. Students who previously could only get a gTLD now have the option of a .eu domain - not quite the geographic specificality of .ie but at least it is associated with Europe.

The steep rise of the .eu has I think scared the IEDR because it showed that there was, partially, a demand that was not being met by either .ie or the com/net/org/biz/info gTLDs. It has added another 24K domains to the com/net/org/biz/info side of the equation. It was easy for IEDR to get the gullible technology journalists to concentrate on the success of .ie purely being a .ie : .com count (leaving out the net/org/biz/info counts). That’s how it pitches it to make .ie look to be doing better than it is. The fact that Eurid published the number of .eu domains owned by each country and the awareness of .eu means that it is difficult now for IEDR to just refer to the .ie:.com figure.

The mapping spiders running on a dataset of active (detected) .eu domains here are showing 79% of the .eu domains resolving to websites. The analysis will probably show that many of these are parked or redirected.

IEDR had a good opportunity but it wasted it. The .eu is heavily squatted and there are hundreds of thousands of possible bad faith registrations. But without the facts, Curtin’s angle was just that of an interested bystander. IEDR should really have been been hammering home the managed aspect of .ie cctld even though it has a small squatter problem that IEDR has not yet addressed.

I don’t know if the .ie ccTLD is well enough managed to allow it to grow dramatically. Perhaps the only way to grow it rapidly is to deregulate it and that would require a well engineered backend for the registry. But that would turn in it into a cesspit like .eu gTLD and it would lose what may be .ie’s most valuable asset.

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