[JimmyAxod]

.eu isn’t the most legitimate looking domain. They probably just have some rules around which domains tend to be spam/scam/bs

[atoav]

Let me guess: You are not from the EU?

.eu domains are not uncommon over here.

[fermigier]

".eu isn’t the most legitimate looking domain." -> Is this based on actual and specific information ?

[labster]

Brexit means Brexit.

[dncornholio]

A few years ago I changed the domain of a customers website from .eu to .nl because it refused to show up in Google. Anecdotal evidence suggests .eu is not a good domain name for your business.

[em-bee]

i think it's comparable to .us

neither are commonly used, but neither are spam domains

[Beltalowda]

.eu domains are somewhat common; from a quick grep of my Firefox history:

adamj.eu alsd.eu alternatives.eu belleslettres.eu bergfreunde.eu berthub.eu bitsnbites.eu bizin.eu btcdirect.eu carlschwan.eu ceridap.eu coolblue.eu cpcwiki.eu cubilis.eu datadoghq.eu doshaven.eu epicompany.eu eui.eu eupl.eu euplf.eu eurescrossborder.eu europa.eu forum.eu framelabs.eu gdprhub.eu geizhals.eu gmic.eu hownormalami.eu ibabs.eu inflation.eu itgovernance.eu johnmathews.eu juliareda.eu list.eu maxlath.eu noyb.eu politico.eu postgresql.eu publiccode.eu qonto.eu sagefund.eu secondwheels.eu sifted.eu skikk.eu successfactors.eu surnamemap.eu tjinstoko.eu xahteiwi.eu z80cpu.eu

Some of these are fairly small/obscure; some are fairly significant: europe.eu is the site for a lot of what the EU does; politico.eu is a well known media organisation; coolblue.eu is major Dutch retail business, etc.

[Cthulhu_]

Does it matter if a domain LOOKS legitimate? I mean .com doesn't look legitimate anymore either because of the amount of bad websites on there.

[liftm]

Depends, I guess? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28554400