Comments on: Building A .eu Search Engine? http://blog.whoisireland.com/2006/09/24/building-a-eu-search-engine/ Search Engines, Domains, Statistics and Analysis Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:04:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: John McCormac http://blog.whoisireland.com/2006/09/24/building-a-eu-search-engine/#comment-62337 Sun, 08 Apr 2007 15:47:22 +0000 http://blog.whoisireland.com/2006/09/24/building-a-eu-search-engine/#comment-62337 Well with over 2 million identified .eu domains here, you'll probably show up somewhere in them. Some of the people I was referring to have control over 40K or more .eu domains. Of the directory type domains, 847 of them are tracked at present. You are probably one of the few people actually bothering to develop anything in .eu as most people are ignoring it completely due to the cybersquatting and warehousing problem. Well with over 2 million identified .eu domains here, you’ll probably show up somewhere in them. Some of the people I was referring to have control over 40K or more .eu domains. Of the directory type domains, 847 of them are tracked at present. You are probably one of the few people actually bothering to develop anything in .eu as most people are ignoring it completely due to the cybersquatting and warehousing problem.

]]> by: John McCormac http://blog.whoisireland.com/2006/09/24/building-a-eu-search-engine/#comment-52106 Mon, 25 Sep 2006 23:37:32 +0000 http://blog.whoisireland.com/2006/09/24/building-a-eu-search-engine/#comment-52106 The split dns/www thing is not that unusal when it comes to parked domains. It allows a domainer to have a healthy domain count on his DNS. It also makes it more difficult for search engines to deepsix a linkswamp operation by knocking all sites associated with a particular DNS out of an index. The split dns/www thing is not that unusal when it comes to parked domains. It allows a domainer to have a healthy domain count on his DNS. It also makes it more difficult for search engines to deepsix a linkswamp operation by knocking all sites associated with a particular DNS out of an index.

]]> by: John McCormac http://blog.whoisireland.com/2006/09/24/building-a-eu-search-engine/#comment-52094 Mon, 25 Sep 2006 13:14:27 +0000 http://blog.whoisireland.com/2006/09/24/building-a-eu-search-engine/#comment-52094 I think the existing hierarchy of domains (com/cctld, net,org,info,biz) will still apply for the near future. The .eu domains currently registered (based on the 79% or so I've mapped) are very spammy in terms of keywords. If Google cannot sort out a decent linkswamp filter, it may end up having the penalise all .eu domains wrt .com/.cctld sites. I'm not quite sure about that hotels.eu sale. It doesn't look right. But Sedo are trying to hype up .eu sales and one big sale covers up the hundreds of thousands of reg fee .eu domains that may lapse in 12 - 18 months. I think the existing hierarchy of domains (com/cctld, net,org,info,biz) will still apply for the near future. The .eu domains currently registered (based on the 79% or so I’ve mapped) are very spammy in terms of keywords. If Google cannot sort out a decent linkswamp filter, it may end up having the penalise all .eu domains wrt .com/.cctld sites.

I’m not quite sure about that hotels.eu sale. It doesn’t look right. But Sedo are trying to hype up .eu sales and one big sale covers up the hundreds of thousands of reg fee .eu domains that may lapse in 12 - 18 months.

]]> by: Richard Hearne http://blog.whoisireland.com/2006/09/24/building-a-eu-search-engine/#comment-52093 Mon, 25 Sep 2006 13:06:14 +0000 http://blog.whoisireland.com/2006/09/24/building-a-eu-search-engine/#comment-52093 Hmm.. from the sounds of that its going to be very difficult to get .eu domains ranked for competitive terms. I can see quite a lot of Google bombing required for anybody hoping to get much SE traffic. Sedo seem to be doing quite nicely from the whole affair - I see they sold hotels.eu for an onscene figure there a week or two ago. Hmm.. from the sounds of that its going to be very difficult to get .eu domains ranked for competitive terms. I can see quite a lot of Google bombing required for anybody hoping to get much SE traffic.

Sedo seem to be doing quite nicely from the whole affair - I see they sold hotels.eu for an onscene figure there a week or two ago.

]]> by: John McCormac http://blog.whoisireland.com/2006/09/24/building-a-eu-search-engine/#comment-52092 Mon, 25 Sep 2006 10:47:22 +0000 http://blog.whoisireland.com/2006/09/24/building-a-eu-search-engine/#comment-52092 Google is going to have a real headache if it tries to match the .eu TLD with IPs. It will have to apply some decent filtering algorithms to remove the linkswamp networks as well. These seem to be the only massively linked .eu sites at the moment. For example that apparently Swiss owned UK front company that registered WATERFORDCASTLE.EU is hosted in Romania (it has around 40K .eu domains squatted). Then there are the auction sites like Sedo and Afternic. And as for the .eu domains with dodgy registrant data, these are going to be all over the net. Google is going to have a real headache if it tries to match the .eu TLD with IPs. It will have to apply some decent filtering algorithms to remove the linkswamp networks as well. These seem to be the only massively linked .eu sites at the moment. For example that apparently Swiss owned UK front company that registered WATERFORDCASTLE.EU is hosted in Romania (it has around 40K .eu domains squatted). Then there are the auction sites like Sedo and Afternic. And as for the .eu domains with dodgy registrant data, these are going to be all over the net.

]]> by: Richard Hearne http://blog.whoisireland.com/2006/09/24/building-a-eu-search-engine/#comment-52078 Mon, 25 Sep 2006 09:37:43 +0000 http://blog.whoisireland.com/2006/09/24/building-a-eu-search-engine/#comment-52078 Google might be indexing the pages but I wonder how well they rank for search? I am also trying to find out how Google treats .eu TLD in the case of country only searches. I know that Google uses both TLD and server location in dteremining the country origin of a domain - I wonder how this applies to .eu? Google might be indexing the pages but I wonder how well they rank for search?

I am also trying to find out how Google treats .eu TLD in the case of country only searches. I know that Google uses both TLD and server location in dteremining the country origin of a domain - I wonder how this applies to .eu?

]]> by: John McCormac http://blog.whoisireland.com/2006/09/24/building-a-eu-search-engine/#comment-52023 Mon, 25 Sep 2006 06:54:20 +0000 http://blog.whoisireland.com/2006/09/24/building-a-eu-search-engine/#comment-52023 The number of new blogs in .eu is unusual Danny :) Though it does offer some hope for the future of .eu as the bloggers tend to be the early adopters in this. Sometimes they bring in the other developers. I should have enough for a pre-index of .eu sites in the next few days and will probably do some sample runs to get an idea of the number of real websites. But I expect that most of the sites will be holding/parking pages. But on the upside, I have a Celeron 433 I can use as a .eu search engine box. :) The number of new blogs in .eu is unusual Danny :)
Though it does offer some hope for the future of .eu as the bloggers tend to be the early adopters in this. Sometimes they bring in the other developers.

I should have enough for a pre-index of .eu sites in the next few days and will probably do some sample runs to get an idea of the number of real websites. But I expect that most of the sites will be holding/parking pages. But on the upside, I have a Celeron 433 I can use as a .eu search engine box. :)

]]> by: John McCormac http://blog.whoisireland.com/2006/09/24/building-a-eu-search-engine/#comment-51975 Mon, 25 Sep 2006 04:43:19 +0000 http://blog.whoisireland.com/2006/09/24/building-a-eu-search-engine/#comment-51975 Yep Michele, Most of the good directory domains in .eu have been squatted by Ovidio/Pool/Snapnames etc. Still the directory idea might be possible. But first I have to get this Wordpress installation working properly :) Yep Michele,
Most of the good directory domains in .eu have been squatted by Ovidio/Pool/Snapnames etc.

Still the directory idea might be possible. But first I have to get this Wordpress installation working properly :)

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