New .eu domain names - £100+ each?

[Azam.net]

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EURid has just announced official eu registrars here.

I followed the links to all the English language registrars. The prices seem a total rip-off. We're talking £100+ per domain name at this stage.
Most of the sites don't even mention any price whatsoever! Of course, it doesn't matter for people working for big companies, as they won't be paying for the costs of the domain names from their own pockets, but I need to know how much it'll cost before I pre-register a domain name. I think it's ridiculous these sites don't mention any price - all they want to do is trap people into pre-registering no doubt and then charge them huge sums for their domains.

Surely the .eu domain is not going to be as expensive as £100+? Will there be cheaper registrars coming on board during the sunrise period?

[Sammy aff]

a.eu is worth jack ****, as always .com is the only one, and always will be, in fact more so now other stuff is coming out

[eskimo]

If the price is that high, then at least it may put of some domain speculators and mean that domains are avaliable for some years to come - silver lining and all that.

Just out of interest what legal body will have durastriction over a .eu name?

[evanzo]

I want to know on what basis domains will be awarded. How will they decide who out of the thousands of applicants gets sex.eu or casino.eu?