Overhype

Overhype

by Carlo Longino




Europeans Can't Get Enough Sex.eu

from the must-be-all-those-tv-ads dept

More than 100,000 applications were filed on the first day of registrations for the Euro-centric .eu domains, with "sex.eu" the most sought-after name. Surely this is what the forefathers of the European Union had in mind: not a common economic market or free trade and passage, but sexual content from around the continent united under a single domain. Now, if the .xxx TLD ever comes back, will there be a rush on europe.xxx?

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    Dec 7th, 2005 @ 3:39pm
  • Great XXX

    Nothing like handing out your business card with your name on it, and under it, for your website, it reads great.xxx, or greatsex.xxx. Hehe, that would get a laugh. It even rhymes if you say it as "Great Sex (dot) Triple XXX!"

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  • Dec 7th, 2005 @ 3:57pm
  • shocker!

    by Anonymous Coward

    Is this suprising in the slightest? I don't see how it could be.

    Is it also a shocker that the second most requested domain name was probably money.eu?

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  • Dec 7th, 2005 @ 7:03pm
  • Ask the forefathers

    by Anonymous Coward

    Okay, Techdirt is a technical news publication, so you guys are in theory journalists. If you wonder if the EU's forefathers had something in mind, just ask them. The EU hasn't been around for 200 years, Hell it hasn't been around for 20 years. Surely some of the forefathers are still alive. It is a silly premise anyway. Regardless of any sex.eu domain it is hardly a major issue to the people in the EU. The post reads like the government or the entire union has been working on sex.eu instead of accomplishing more important things, which of course isn't the case. Carlo really has an attitude, doesn't he?

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  • Dec 7th, 2005 @ 7:13pm
  • Ask the Forefathers

    no, he's probably british or french, too stuck up to laugh at a joke directed at europeans.

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    • Dec 8th, 2005 @ 3:40am
    • Re: Ask the Forefathers

      by Anonymous Coward

      french i'd have thought - us brits can take a joke !

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    • Dec 8th, 2005 @ 4:05am
    • Re: Ask the Forefathers

      by Anonymous Coward

      The Brits has the best humour in the world - they can surely take a joke. The French, however... And the more southern parts? Well, let's not go there...

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