John Berryhill, writing on the ICANN Registrars' list: "As of this morning, we are one million registrations into the first TLD designed to be a mis-type of another TLD. Go check the status of your favorite .EDU name in the .EU registry."
He's right. Check the .EU whois. EUrid received landrush registrations for university names like "ucla.eu" (University of California at Los Angeles) and "uark.eu" (University of Arkansas) and "utexas.eu" (University of Texas) and, my law school alma mater, "vanderbilt.eu" (Vanderbilt University). In fact, my not -so -scientific random -sampling study of university -names -not -likely -to -have -equivalents -in -Europe (like "uidaho.eu") suggests that every university name in .EDU was registered in .EU in the TLD's first days of open registration.
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Traffic: The Tale of the Missing "D"
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Re: Traffic: The Tale of the Missing "D"
It cuts both ways. I had to look up a .eu domain the other day but my fingers typed .edu out of years of habit.
Go figure. Re: Traffic: The Tale of the Missing "D"
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gpmgroup
on Mon 10 Apr 2006 03:30 PM PDT | Profile | Permanent Link
There are quite a few interesting .eu registrations
The American Embassy in Brussels had their application for usa.eu rejected. It looks like a Dutch company Traffic Web Holding B.V. will secure it with their trademark for u&sa The American Embassy also had their application for unitedstates.eu rejected. Luckily for Traffic Web Holding B.V. they were able to get their application accepted for unitedstates.eu using their Registered National Trademark for unit&edstates I would imagine these trademarks will also come in quite handy for the forthcoming ICANN new gTLDs. Trackbacks
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