According to figures released by the European Commission on Wednesday, more than 2.5 million .eu domain names have been registered since the TLD (Top Level Domain) was made available to the public a year ago.
This number of active users means that .eu is Europe's third most popular top level domain (TLD) and seventh most popular worldwide. With a 17% increase of registrations over the past five months, .eu is also one of the fastest growing TLD names on the web.
"After just one year .eu has become a well-established part of Europe's cyberspace," observed Viviane Reding, EU Commissioner for Information Society and Media. She continued:
"This is a positive sign of the attractiveness of electronic commerce within the EU. I congratulate EURid as the independent not-for-profit registry responsible for .eu, for successfully managing the extremely high demand from industry and the public and for helping us to deploy Europe's identity online. I welcome in particular the recent efforts made by EURid to make .eu-registrations swifter, safer and cheaper."
According to the EC, citizens and companies from all 27 EU Member States have applied for a .eu domain name during its first year of existence, but the strongest demand for .eu has come from Germany (31%), the UK (17%) and The Netherlands (12%).
The great success of .eu has also been accompanied by an increase in demand for national domain names in most Member States. For instance, since October last year the growth in the number of national domain names in Germany and the UK (.de and .uk) has been around 5%. The Netherlands (.nl) experienced the highest growth rate – 10% over the same period.
The popularity of .eu with the public also encouraged France to open its national domain name .fr - previously reserved only for professionals, associations or public bodies - to the public, using rules and practices similar to .eu's introduction.
The .eu domain first opened on 7 December 2005 to businesses holding prior rights. Since early April 2006, registration has been open to all EU residents and organisations with a legal seat in the EU.
Central management of the .eu domain names is entrusted to EURid, an independent not-for-profit organisation.
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