Eurid’s clarification on resellers came as a shock to many in the industry, but nobody seems overly concerned.
In Ireland Jmcc offers an interesting analysis drawing on the history of the other TLDs and current breakdown of the market share.
He sums up the issue very succintly:
The big registrars have millions of domains registered but it is the resellers with their own branding that account for many of these domains – exactly the kind of registrar/reseller model that the bozos in Brussels want to ignore.
Checking out some of the other fora where people in the industry hangout I was not overly surprised to find a certain degree of confusion. Many people seem to be under the impression that to get .EU accreditation you need to deal with ICANN as well.
Looking back to earlier this year there is an article by Jothan Frakes celebrating the progress towards launch.
Maybe there won’t be as much bubbly when the dust has settled.
Over the last couple of years an inordinate number of companies have been touting .EU pre-registration services with many clients being duped into handing over fees. Although some of the companies involved maybe accredited now they most definitely were not a year ago. They couldn’t have had any guarantees of acceptance as the criteria had not been laid down.
What will happen when the floodgates are opened?
Will we see a rush for domains or are we more likely to be distracted by the inordinate number of clients who have been burnt?
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