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.eu Website Survey - Less Than 22% Actively Developed

WhoisIreland.com surveyed over 1.436 Million .eu websites in June. Less than 22% of these websites were actively developed. This active development figure is likely to be downgraded. Out of approximately 1.77M resolving domains (from 2.15M tracked - 2.13M were surveyed) there are approximately 1.436M websites.

Webtype Websites Web % Total %
A 373612 26.0223 21.0975
B 82188 5.7244 4.6411
D 46450 3.2353 2.6230
F 96342 6.7103 5.4403
H 310639 21.6362 17.5414
N 3088 0.2151 0.1744
P 106361 7.4081 6.0061
R 275886 19.2156 15.5790
S 8331 0.5803 0.4704
U 4565 0.3180 0.2578
W 126224 8.7916 7.1277
X 2053 0.1430 0.1159

A: Active/not yet classified.
B: Brand protection registration.
D: refresh in webpage.
F: Forbidden or other 4nn code.
H: Holding page with no content.
N: Duplicate content network of sites.
P: PPC parked.
R: Redirected (301/302 codes).
S: Site is for sale or rent.
U: Site unavailable (127.0.0.1 is not a valid IP etc).
W: Domain aggregation network sites.
X: Porn sites.The classification process is still underway and the actively developed websites figure is continually being downgraded as “coming soon” and parking sites. It would not be unthinkable to see a figure closer to 10% for the number of active .eu websites.The usage of .eu is a disaster. However it may have some attractions for businesses that operate on a Europe wide basis. But as a domain for Europe, it is irrelevant.

The classifcation process is based on search engine index building methods. The response codes are only the start of the process. The process itself involves analysing the titles, keywords and descriptions for each site and comparing the html.

In any case, this may provide the basis for a .eu webdirectory or search engine. But are people really interested in .eu ccTLD?
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Written by John McCormac on July 10th, 2007 with 4 comments.
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Ireland’s .ie ccTLD Tops 80K Domains

Ireland’s .ie ccTLD went over 80,000 domains registered yesterday. It was a landmark for a country code domain that had been mired in controversy only a few years ago. The next psychological barrier for .ie will be the 100K mark. The growth in .ie ccTLD is not happening at the expense of .com TLD. There is a clear growth pattern as more and more Irish businesses become web aware. The .eu fiasco, where the utterly incompetent EURid completely banjaxed .eu for citizens of the EU, has highlighted the value of a good, better run and more trustworthy ccTLD.

If the Personal Name Domains (as covered by Michele on his blog) are implemented later this year, it could drive .ie over the 100K mark rapidly. At the moment, registering personal names in the .ie ccTLD is somewhat problematic. And the idea gets floated to unsuspecting technology journalists quite frequently. The technology journalists often thinks that they are getting a great new insight but in reality, the same idea has been floating around for years - even back to the Fagan days of IEDR.

Latest Irish HosterStats Report published monthly by WhoisIreland.com

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Written by John McCormac on June 12th, 2007 with 3 comments.
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Top Irish Web Hosters - June 2007

Hoster BIONIC Diff .ie .com .net .org .biz .info .eu
HOSTING365.IE 22727 550 7532 11438 1689 999 472 597 269
BLACKNIGHTSOLUTIONS.COM 10222 564 4223 4645 676 377 119 182 424
NOVARA.IE 9222 385 4559 3745 479 314 64 61 474
EIRCOM.NET 8543 17 5438 2609 276 164 35 21 546
IRISHDOMAINS.NET 8032 150 5078 2529 203 127 47 48 844
DNSIRELAND.COM 6602 437 3109 2699 432 173 84 105 91
WEBHOSTINGIRELAND.IE 5355 137 2451 2463 278 118 21 24 191
HOSTIRELAND.COM 4870 94 2581 1953 194 109 15 18 148
ESAT.NET 4657 -54 2322 2074 148 103 6 4 90
DIGIWEB.IE 4617 501 1642 2315 325 117 150 68 78

The term BIONIC refers to the sum of Biz, Info, Org, Net, IE, Com domains on a hoster. The Sample dates are 01 May 2007 and 01 June 2007. The diff is the change in numbers between those dates.

The statistics above are from the latest HosterStats report published monthly by WhoisIreland.com

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Written by John McCormac on June 11th, 2007 with 2 comments.
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Google Recovers Typosquatted .ie Domains

Google recovered a number of .ie domains that were typosquats of Google. The domains (googol.ie, gogle.ie, googl.ie and googel.ie) were part of a terminated IE Dispute Resolution Proceeding against Gabor Varga and Joszef Petho of eubrowser.com. The domains were transferred in the last month. A number of other domains that, potentially, infringe on the trademarks of others have been registered by Eubrowser.com in the last few years. A number of other blogs such as Michele’s, Ambrand and Brian Greene also covered this pattern of questionable domain registration.

Adidas.ie was recovered after Adidas took an IEDRP against Eubrowser.com. The WIPO decision DIE2006-004 makes interesting reading as Adidas effectively demonstrated the bad faith nature of the registration. It also mentioned a letter from IEDR “indicating its belief that the Registrants have been manipulating the criteria for .ie domain registrations is further evidence of bad faith.”

Eubrowser.com’s registration of generic .ie domains is not the problem. The problem arose when it infringed on the intellectual property of others. But IEDR should really have been paying attention to these questionable registrations. Surely when someone tries to register the domain name irishindependent.ie and they are not representing one of the best selling newspapers in Ireland (The Irish Independent), some questions should be asked about the veracity of the registration and the quality of those doing the checking. It is clear that the rules were gamed.

The domains were shifted to the nameservers of Markmonitor.com and are now registered to Google.

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Written by John McCormac on June 9th, 2007 with 1 comment.
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Over 250K .eu Domains Dropped In April

Over 250K .eu domains have dropped in April 2007. Many of them will not be reregistered. The reasons for this vary. Some of the domains were clear attempts at cybersquatting. Political parties and politicians had their names registered as .eu domains. High profile websites and brands were also targeted in the hope that the domains could then be sold quickly for a profit by the squatters.

One squatter operation, the XSS.RO/Kurt Janusch one had over 34K .eu domains deleted in April. Prior to the drop, it had over 43K .eu domains on its monetisation site. It now has approximately 11K. The Jay Westerdal/Ray King operation (using eight UK front companies) removed the nameserver data from at least 40K of their warehoused .eu domains in an effort to hide them. A significant percentage of .eu domains are hidden like this in order to evade detection because many of these warehoused domains would have trademark and intellectual property rights issues.

Many of the dropped domains, have as of this date, not been reregistered even after they have been released from quarantine. The quality of these dropped domains varied considerably from relatively good domains to complete dross. The problem for most speculators was that they applied mature market reasoning to a new launch, registering domains that might have a resale value in a mature market like that of .com TLD. However in a new market like .eu ccTLD, they were rubbish domains that would not even recover the registration fee.

The direct navigation operations like Ovidio and the Westerdal/King warehousing operation have renewed their .eu registrations. The danger is that many of the domains dropping now are from the business core of approximately 1.2M .eu domains. These domains form the heart of any ccTLD. They are the business domains that give an extension credibility - in the case of .eu, that credibility is completely lacking after the stupidity and incompetence of EURid’s management in handling the Landrush and warehousing issues.

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Written by John McCormac on June 3rd, 2007 with 3 comments.
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.eu In Freefall - Thousands Of Domains Dropping Each Hour

The .eu ccTLD is reaping the whirlwind as thousands of domains are dropped every hour now. The ccTLD, incompetently managed by EURid, was warehoused and squatted to such an extent that businesses and individuals throughout the European Union lost confidence in the extension. According to EURid’s only statistics, over 54% of .eu ccTLD is warehoused and potentially cybersquatted as of 31/December/2006. The .eu ccTLD peaked at approximately 2.6 Million domains registered. At the moment, it stands at 2455787 domains. The question now is about how low it can go.

The danger now is that most of the domains being dropped will be in the 1.2M or so of individual and business registrations. This is the core of the ccTLD, indeed the core of any domain. Without it, the TLD has no credibility. And given the way that EURid collaborated with the non-EU cybersquatters and warehousers, there is very little reason for people to hold on to their .eu domains other than for defensive registration purposes.
The European Commission who awarded the contract to run .eu ccTLD to the bungling EURid venture have only themselves and their “expert” advisors to blame for this mess. The only thing that would redeem the .eu ccTLD is the redelegation of the .eu ccTLD to a competent and well run registry and the obliteration of the warehousing and cybersquatting operations. But the fools in the European Commission are oblivious to the reality of the situation. Until real action is taken the market has decided, quite bluntly, that .eu domains are the junk bonds of the domain industry.

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Written by John McCormac on April 28th, 2007 with 1 comment.
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No Porn For .ie ccTLD

The long running dispute over the domain “porn.ie” ended today when IEDR put the domain in the “Forbidden” category. This means that the domain cannot be registered. The move solves a lot of problems because there have been many attempts to register the domain. The renewal date is interesting though:

% Rights restricted by copyright; http://www.domainregistry.ie/copyright.html
% Do not remove this notice
domain: porn.ie
descr: Forbidden
renewal: 12-April-2107

The “Forbidden” category of domain names in .ie ccTLD is generally used to stop the registration of other top level domains and similarly problematic domains. This particular domain has had quite a few applicants and is considered a valuable domain by domainers, speculators and those involved in the adult entertainment industry.

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Written by John McCormac on April 12th, 2007 with 4 comments.
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European Commission Lies Highlighted By EURid Statistics

The latest press release from the European Commission claims that “.eu one year on: over 2.5 million have taken up a European address on the web” This is a lie. According to EURid’s own statistics from its Annual report for 2006, the number of registrants with one domain name: 610679. The rest of the stats make interesting reading because they show how utterly corrupted the .eu ccTLD is due to its mismanagement by EURid.

Registrants with more than 10000 domains: 6
Registrants with 5000-9999 domains: 18
Registrants with 1000-4999 domains: 64
Registrants with 100-999 domains: 1257
Registrants with 10-99 domains: 20886
Registrants with 6-9 domains: 22933
Registrants with 5 domains: 13200
Registrants with 4 domains: 23007
Registrants with 3 domains: 42887
Registrants with 2 domains: 115543
Registrants with 1 domain: 610679

The number of small scale registrants in .eu ccTLD is only 1128424. The rest is warehoused and squatted. Hardly a success unless you are some kind of click and drool moron employed by EURid or the European Commission. But then this quotation in the press release from the European Commissioner for with responsibility for the .eu fiasco, Viviane Reding, really shows how utterly clueless the EC is about the damage that has been inflicted on .eu ccTLD by EURid: “I congratulate EURid as the independent not-for-profit registry responsible for .eu, for successfully managing the extremely high demand from industry and the public and for helping us to deploy Europe’s identity online. I welcome in particular the recent efforts made by EURid to make .eu-registrations swifter, safer and cheaper.”

EURid screwed up the landrush by allowing phantom registrars to warehouse hundreds of thousands of .eu domains. It failed to take competent action against these warehousing operations despite being warned. The main beneficiaries of the .eu price cuts are the warehousing operations with their own phantom registrars. The .eu ccTLD does not belong to the people of Europe. It was betrayed by an incompetent registry and ignorant fools in the European Commission. The European Union is synonymous with corruption, waste and incompetence. The history of .eu landrush and sunrise confirms that. The people of the European Union have no confidence in EURid or the .eu ccTLD. Stripping EURid of the contract to run .eu would go some way towards restoring that confidence. Until that time, .eu ccTLD is a rotting, maggot infested corpse of an extension with little or no relevance to Europe.

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Written by John McCormac on April 12th, 2007 with 1 comment.
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