How popular is .eu.com ?

There is a small bunch of 3-letter domains I'd like to register, but how popular are these type of domains?

You can always register 2 word domains in .eu.ee to.

Info admin@eu.ee

eu.ee ? no thanks. Those are pretty worthless in my eyes, even eu.com is questionable (and therefor I ask :))

Don't know about that...

.eu.ee can be useful for those who want to spend not much money on domains but also don't want the many conditions and ads from free subdomain providers.

I'd spend 1 or 2 bucks a year on a .eu.ee subdomain for experimenting with DNS, for a smaller or temporary website that doesn't require a common extention.
Subdomains are excellent for those things (for bigger or more permanent sites I go for a real TLD) but the only subdomain providers I found for 2 eur or les per annum are .nl.nu and .eu.org - but their support is far from good. And I think .eu.ee sounds not bad as the .eu part is recognisable.

By the way and slightly off-topic: I cannot proceed past the opening page of www.eu.ee ?



On-topic :

.eu.com would be worth anything, certainly with .eu's launching delay and expected high prices, and it is in hands of CentralNIC which is a stable and established company.
I do have a problem with their prices though. The cheapest I found is 19 eur a year with a CentralNIC reseller in Germany. But I think subdomains should never cost more than 3 or 4 euros a year, as it will never be the same as a real domain.

Conclusion: I'd say .eu.com is a good extention with a bad pricing. But it's memorable and I think a European is better off using .eu.com than using .bz or .nu or something similar.

As long as you understand .eu.com is a sub-domain rather than a "real" domain then you'll have a better start than most.

Some companies find it usefull, we semm to be doing a fair number of .eu.com and .uk.com regisrations at the moment where the chosen name in .com has gone.

I've always though CentralNICs prices even to their resellers was too high to really stimulate demand for them - if they dropped the price to 10% of the current 45$ or whatever to sub $5 more people would use them

Agree with above.
A lot of the sub-domains that CentralNIC sell have the potential to be quite popular.
So the .com has gone and I'm based in the UK - .uk.com really doesn't sound that bad at all.
It's just at $45 it's a lot of money to pay so only a handful of companies actually use them.

I do not really think eu.com is that popular. They do not look professional at all.

Agree with Bladerunner. But see it like this: CentralNIC know what they've got. If you would have had sex.com or music.com or so, would you sell it for 50 bucks ? CentralNIC have powerful domains for the purpose of selling subdomains, so they use the power.

And honestly, I'd buy a .eu.com if it were cheaper.

There is a eu.org you may take a look, it is also a subdomain but it is free of charge. But a little unresponsive to my queries though. Anyone tried?

I do have a problem with their prices though. The cheapest I found is 19 eur a year with a CentralNIC reseller in Germany. But I think subdomains should never cost more than 3 or 4 euros a year, as it will never be the same as a real domain.

You can get a little cheaper than that but bear in mind this is a special promotion price :( which may or may not increase back up again - there is also a minimum 2 year registration period

Please though define a "real domain" ??
A domain is a collection of letters and numbers that through the dns system ends up at a web server is it not

a real domain exists as a DB entry with an IANA approved REGISTRY
a CntralNIC subdomain exists as an entry in their database. Should they not renew the "real" uk.com domain through the registrar, then all the subdomains wil immediately stop working and be worthless.

Originally posted by othellotech
a real domain exists as a DB entry with an IANA approved REGISTRY
a CntralNIC subdomain exists as an entry in their database. Should they not renew the "real" uk.com domain through the registrar, then all the subdomains wil immediately stop working and be worthless.

What I meant Rob was that no matter what or where a domain is purchased it is nothing more than a reference in a database - I personally would choose a Centralnic domain over some so called "real" domains anyday.

Considering the the amount of redelegation http://www.iana.org/reports/cctld-reports.htm within "real" domains Centralnic is relatively stable

compared to a phony name such as new.net(e.g. .love, .chat) I would go with centralnic any day

Originally posted by boonchuan
There is a eu.org you may take a look, it is also a subdomain but it is free of charge. But a little unresponsive to my queries though. Anyone tried?

.eu.org is a great extention compared to most subdomain providers and even better than stuff as .bz or .cc if you ask me. But I also have bad experiences with their support/helpdesk, or better expressed: NO experiences, as they never replied to a mail I sent.

also, they'd have a WHOIS database, but it seems it cannot be accessed the site ? So I wonder if this bit of info I got is right.
And according to what I read once at this forum, they'd be easy to hack, though when I asked what was meant with that comment, no answer was given.

Anyway, best subdomain provider for me is still Ulimit.com - very fast helpdesk, and some nice domains to chose from (.fr.st, .fr.fm, .be.tf, ... Valuable if you live in those countries)

Hi,

Just wanted to pop in on this thread. I've worked for CentralNic since 2001. I'm happy to answer any questions about the domains that I can.

We're selling more and more of them every year and we are very committed to the business of domains.