.eu tld has been launched. I work with acmopany and i tried to get a few domains for them in pre-registration period. Hopefully i might get them.
They said they sold 60000 domains in one hour and 80000 in second.

THats a lot. I wonder what effect will it have on online europeanmarket??

Did any of you grab any domain?

Not yet! I may grabb one soon but not sure yet!

You need to have an european address to grab one. and domains are no topen for public till feb. 2006. But, if you have a company or trade mark in Europe, then you should go now (in sunrise period, which is from now till feb)

I doubt there's much to register but some leftovers when those TLD's come available for inviduals..

Yes that's true, only those that live in Europe can order one or more of those .eu domains. And yes also one has to be a Company or a trademark in those countries in order to be in the first phase. I don't see why it wasn't a bit more fair, I mean private individuals general everyday people can surely buy domains, and they may have wanted to get a domain name they wanted. I suppose they didn't want people taking domains of stores and such, if it didn't belong to them. Imagine one store buying another store's name? Imagine a person buying a business that didn't own that name, yet they own the domain name?

The public Land Rush only starts on 7th of April. Until then its the Sunrise period.

To be eligible for a .eu domain you have to meet at least one of the following criteria:

1. undertakings having their registered office, central administration or principal place of business within the European Community;
2. organisations established within the European Community without prejudice to the application of national law;
3. natural persons resident within the European Community.

From http://www.eurid.eu

Im sure we will see some "big domain sales" with the .eu domains in the near future.

it's predicted to be bigger than .com but we'll see

Originally Posted by jaswinder_rana

You need to have an european address to grab one. and domains are no topen for public till feb. 2006. But, if you have a company or trade mark in Europe, then you should go now (in sunrise period, which is from now till feb)

i didnt know that