Today the .eu TLD came open for registration. Seems feeddigest.eu has already gone! So has feedburner.eu. So has flickr.eu. So has 37signals.eu.. and, well, if you run any site of any substance, it's likely a squatter has already taken your name. I can't see .eu taking off to any great extent, so I'm not too worried, and companies like Flickr and FeedBurner (and probably the 2000 other US Web services) don't have a way to dispute it anyway, I imagine, as they're not EU corporations.

Most large companies have registered their .eu names during the Sunrise process, but very few actually work, so I think it's just a TLD that'll be used for a few useful EU related sites, and then the rest will be a demilitarized zone where no-one does anything, but everyone makes sure their plot is marked.

At £15 per year, and a 2 year minimum registration, it comes to £35.25 to register a domain (with taxes), so I don't think I'm going to bother getting anything. I don't think it'll particularly take off as a TLD unless they do some crazy promotions like the .be or .cx people did (and who uses .cx now?)

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