| Hoster |
Country |
BIONIC |
.EU Total |
| 1UND1.DE |
DE |
426656 |
124279 |
| UDAGDNS.NET |
DE |
296759 |
102904 |
| RZONE.DE |
DE |
274707 |
94333 |
| OVIDIOLIMITED.COM |
CY |
0 |
64549 |
| SEDOPARKING.COM |
US |
1300716 |
52954 |
| BLIXEM.NL |
NL |
31 |
39849 |
| FABULOUS.COM |
AU |
821213 |
31532 |
| TECHNORAIL.COM |
IT |
269553 |
26487 |
| OVH.NET |
FR |
368293 |
22517 |
| EURODNS.COM |
LU |
23149 |
21921 |
| 1AND1.CO.UK |
UK |
369708 |
21395 |
| SECURESERVER.NET |
US |
9551543 |
20308 |
| REGISTER.IT |
IT |
91279 |
20210 |
| GANDI.NET |
FR |
254128 |
16163 |
| HOSTEUROPE.COM |
UK |
68050 |
13442 |
| 1AND1.FR |
FR |
175150 |
13433 |
| DIRECTNIC.COM |
US |
374355 |
12841 |
| NAMESPACE4YOU.DE |
DE |
589 |
12685 |
| HOSTEUROPE.DE |
DE |
64295 |
12243 |
| NETART.PL |
PL |
31055 |
11901 |
The figures above are .eu statistics based on over 2 million mapped .eu domains. The BIONIC figure refers to the number of Biz / Info / Org / Net / Ie / Com domains on a hoster.
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Written by John McCormac on July 17th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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The figure for active web development in .eu is now close to 16%. I’ve been refining the parsing (classifying holding pages and redirects based on frame src tags, duplicate content checking etc) and the active web figure now stands at 286222 websites out of the initial 1.436M websites. That’s 19.94% of the websites and 16.16% of the total resolving .eu domains. The .eu ccTLD is a disaster zone compared to real ccTLDs. In comparison, the .ie figure is around 57% of websites actively developed - a far higher figure.
There has to be a critical mass of natural web development in an extension to make the extension viable for both business and speculation. It is that natural web development that makes an extension valuable.
The current figures show 112685 websites parked with PPC. That’s 7.85% of the websites and 6.36% of the domains. The aggregators/warehousers/direct navigation networks account for 126257 websites. That’s 8.79% of the websites and 7.13% of the domains. So effectively 15.15% of the websites are PPC monetised - that excludes those using Google Adsense or other webmaster monetisation.
I’m not sure if the uncertainty caused by EURid’s bungling attempts at clamping down on phantom registrars was the problem. The problem was the European Commission awarding contract to run the .eu ccTLD to a ccTLD registry venture with no real gTLD experience. The .eu ccTLD is not really a ccTLD but rather a gTLD. The legal framework was botched as well. If it had specified prior rights and prior use then a lot of the Sunrise problems would not have happened. Some landrush speculators pooled their resources to snap up names of existing European businesses and websites. Many of these domain names were the .eu variants of European small businesses who could not really afford an expensive ADR. These small businesses form the core of any ccTLD.
Many of those domains registered by those phantom registrars are still registered and a lot are framed Sedo parking pages. Others have no nameservers so that they do not appear to be active. There are .eu domains registered with obviously fake addresses and EURid has taken no action for over a year. It seems that EURid management doesn’t care about running .eu as long as it can tell its political masters that the extension is a great success with millions of domains registered.
But grouping all speculators together is dangerous. Some speculators are there to develop websites and provide that essential natural web development growth to the extension. Others are there to flip the domains or monetise the domains with PPC. The opportunity is still there but the audience is not.
It will take years for .eu to recover from the damage caused by EURid’s incompetent handling of the landrush and phantom registrar issues. It may not even recover until after EURid loses the contract to run the ccTLD and the ccTLD is reorganised by people who actually understand the domain name industry.
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Written by John McCormac on July 17th, 2007 with 4 comments.
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