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Gold rush expected for .eu sunrise period
October 2004
When .eu opens for business next year, there is
likely to be a gold rush for domains not seen
since the height of the dot-com boom
The sunrise period designed to give European
trademark owners first pick at relevant .eu domain
names is expected to attract a gold rush of
registrations not seen since the days of the
dot-com boom.
"We will have more than 300,000 registrations when
the button is pressed," said Markus Eggensperger,
legal director of Lycos Europes domain business,
speaking in London on Wednesday. "I could imagine
a million domain name registrations pretty
quickly," he said, adding that the volumes
expected will be "incomparable" to anything seen
in the industry since the boom of the late 1990s.
"The .info and .biz domains have about 1.3m domain
name registrations, they were not a huge success."
Although EURid, the organisation that will run the
.eu domain, is putting a process together to deal
with disputes, there are still concerns over how
well it will work on the day.
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