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[Daniel Dryzek]

Facts about .EU market:

- 500 million people, 27 countries
- 3 million domains and growing
- still a lot of great opportunities to buy great keywords very cheap

Some sales of .eu domains:

hotels.eu €257,000 (2006)
shopping.eu €153,500 (2006)
apotheke.eu €51,000 (2008)
onlinecasino.eu €36,500 (2006)
home.eu €30,000 (2007)
ita.eu €30,000 (2007)
telefonbuch.eu €28,000 (2009)
slots.eu €24,000 (2009)
gps.eu €23,000 (2008)
internet.eu €21,000 (2007)
tagesgeld.eu €18,200 (2009)
ud.eu €17,500 (2008)
einfamilienhaus.eu €11,050 (2006)
schmuck.eu €10,000 (2007)
stockmarket.eu €10,000 (2007)
internetcasinos.eu €7,500 (2006)
hypnose.eu 5,000 EUR (2009)
jb.eu 4,975 EUR (2009)
rasenmaeher.eu €4,500 (2009)

DD

[Alfredo]

.eu registrations by country in numbers

Germany 929.134
Netherlands 414.627
United Kingdom 372.358
France 249.826
Poland 174.532
Italy 166.190
Belgium 92.114
Sweden 81.599
Czech Republic 81.140
Spain 70.146
Austria 74.592
Ireland 59.527
Cyprus 53.013
Denmark 44.983
Hungary 28.916
Greece 24.970
Finland 14.567
Portugal 11.702
Bulgaria 9.475


Total domains: 3.061.367

[Daniel Dryzek]

Some recent .eu sales:

Skyport.eu $14,000 (Sedo)
Security.eu $8,003 (Sedo)
Hypnose.eu €5,000 (Sedo)
JB.eu €4,975 (Sedo)
Rasenmaeher.eu €4,500 (Sedo)
Festgeld.eu (fixed in German) €4,000 (Sedo)
AutoTest.eu €3,500 (Sedo)
Parier.eu €3,500 (Sedo)
Videoslots.eu €3,200 (Sedo)
Cruceros.eu (cruises in Spanish) €2,550 (Sedo)
Fly24.eu €2,500 (Sedo)
MovieGuide.eu €2,500 (Sedo)
Domainregistrierung.eu ("domain registration" in German) €2,100 (Sedo)

Source: DNJournal.com

DD

[Alfredo]

Cruceros.eu (cruises in Spanish) €2,550 (Sedo)

A sale of a domain in Spanish. Very unusual.

[Daniel Dryzek]

Originally Posted by Alfredo

A sale of a domain in Spanish. Very unusual.

Spanish is a popular language and more people start to see it. But I know for example about quite a lot of Polish .eu domain name sales but the prices are smaller than English or Spanish keywords - depends on the keyword too.

DD

[Alfredo]

Originally Posted by Daniel Dryzek

Spanish is a popular language and more people start to see it. But I know for example about quite a lot of Polish .eu domain name sales but the prices are smaller than English or Spanish keywords - depends on the keyword too.

DD

Yes, Spanish is a popular language.

But you check how many .eu domains have Spain.

It isn't popular in Spain and the domainers Spaniards don't like too.

That's why I say: Very unusual.

[mvl]

Spanish is an important business language globally, but very limited within the EU.

[Alfredo]

Originally Posted by mvl

Spanish is an important business language globally, but very limited within the EU.

Exactly. It's unusual to see brochures or menus in Spanish in some countries.

Usually I see more in Italian than in Spanish.

[Daniel Dryzek]

Originally Posted by Alfredo

Yes, Spanish is a popular language.
But you check how many .eu domains have Spain.
It isn't popular in Spain and the domainers Spaniards don't like too.
That's why I say: Very unusual.

OK, now I fully get you. So this is really unusual. And in Poland it is a little bit reversed, because .eu domains are registered and used, especially by companies. So I see this market growing in Poland.

DD

[Alfredo]

Originally Posted by Daniel Dryzek

OK, now I fully get you. So this is really unusual. And in Poland it is a little bit reversed, because .eu domains are registered and used, especially by companies. So I see this market growing in Poland.

DD

I don't want to seem rude. But we speak about spanish .eu domains or .eu in Poland.

[jmcc]

Originally Posted by Alfredo

Yes, Spanish is a popular language.

But you check how many .eu domains have Spain.

It isn't popular in Spain and the domainers Spaniards don't like too.

That's why I say: Very unusual.

Number of .es domains as of 31/March/2009: 1133593
Number of Spanish .eu: 69936 (22/April/2009)

This ratio of ccTLD to eu seems to be common in the EU.
Approximate ratios:
.at : eu 11.48
.be : eu 9.8
.es : .eu 16.2
.de : .eu 13.9
.uk : .eu 21.5
.nl : .eu 8.02
.it : .eu 9.9
.pl : .eu 7.7
.ie : .eu 12 *
.fr : .eu 5.5
.fi : eu 13.9

(I don't trust Eurid's stats on Irish .eu registrations as Eurid permits cyberwarehousing operations using Irish front companies. I think that the true number of Irish owned .eu domains is only around 10K.)

Regards...jmcc

[Alfredo]

How you have calculated these ratios?

[jmcc]

Originally Posted by Alfredo

How you have calculated these ratios?

I took the ccTLD figures for 01/April/2009 and 31/March/2009 from HosterStats.com: gTLD and ccTLD Domain Name Counts 2009 and then used the daily stats from Statistics | EURid to calculate some very rough ratios.

Regards...jmcc

[Daniel Dryzek]

Today on Sedo following .eu domains were sold:

tax.eu 12,530 USD
beer.eu 6,700 USD
carinsurance.eu 3,800 USD
rugby.eu 3,600 USD
university.eu 3,500 USD

These ones didn't meet the reserve price:
mortgage.eu
stocks.eu

DD

[Viator]

Being Swiss and living in Switzerland, I cannot buy EU domain names (unless I use a proxy service - yes, we are NOT in the EU!).

However, I allow myself a small remark: as usual, beyond the obvious value of generic names and category killers, besidse variations from one country to another - as illustrated in this thread - we have also to think in terms of adequation between a TLD and a potential market.

For businesses or groups operating EU-wide, it definitely makes sense. For instance, I have seen EU as a TLD on lorries transporting goods across Europe, and it just seems that it fits well for such purposes.

It is true that it is more suprising for websites with a purely national target. On the other hand, I am a strong believer in the significance of generic names, so if one has a good generic names in another extense than COM or the national one, why not?