The .eu ccTLD is facing a typical post-landrush fall off in registrations. While registrations have not stopped, they are kept high by the numbers of Sunrise domains being activated. The real crunch comes when these Sunrise activations finish and the stream of rejected Sunrise domains being released into the market fades out.
The figures below are the monthly changes sampled at the beginning and end day of each month since May. (The November figure is only as far 17/November/2006). The Active delta is the change in the number of active .eu domains. The Accepted delta is the change in number of Sunrise applications accepted. The Rejected delta is the change in number of Sunrise applications rejected.
Delta Active Accepted Rej Exp Daily Avg
May-06 147311 24783 10345 8890 4910
Jun-06 155432 7119 9744 9744 5181
Jul-06 -2352 8586 5016 7 2373
Aug-06 78283 12446 4266 4 2525
Sep-06 68348 6317 14945 3 2278
Oct-06 150278 4537 11417 0 2399
Nov-06 39844 38 19 1 2344
The July figures were skewed by EURid putting approximately 75922 domains ON HOLD. The majority of these are believed to be the Ovidio syndicate domains. The domains were reactivated by EURid after Ovidio won a legal action against EURid in October.
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Written by John McCormac on November 17th, 2006 with 3 comments.
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EURid is to cut the registration costs of .eu domains to 5 Euros from January 1st 2007 in the wake of collapsing .eu sales. The price reduction is presented as being a response to the success of the .eu ccTLD. However the reality is that EURid has made a complete mess of .eu ccTLD and the credibility of .eu has been destroyed by cyberwarehousing, cybersquatting and the staggering incompetence of EURid.
EURid claimed that this substantial reduction was possible due to the huge interest in .eu and the high number of registrations. The reality is that cyberwarehousers and cybersquatters account for a very large proportion of .eu ccTLD and they were aided by the sheer incompetence of EURid in handling bogus registrars and the massive amount of cybersquatting and cyberwarehousing that this caused.
The incompetents in EURid management seem to think that cutting prices will enhance renewal rates. The reality is that .eu domains are on sale on domainer websites for around 5 Euros each and they are not being bought. All viable TLDs have some element of domain trading but the way that .eu domains are not being traded shows how utterly devalued the .eu ccTLD has become.
The funniest quote in the EURid press release is this:
“EURid is now following up on its promise to reduce the fees after one year of operation. We hope this will stimulate more users to see the advantage of having a true European Internet presence by choosing a .eu domain name,” says Marc Van Wesemael, managing Director of EURid.
I don’t know if this guy realises that European people no longer trust or own .eu - it is mainly in the hands of US and Canadian cyberwarehousers and cybersquatters and it is the incompetence of his organisation that sold out the .eu ccTLD. Europe has one response to EURid - Screw .eu!
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Written by John McCormac on November 17th, 2006 with 4 comments.
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