According to the European Registry of Internet Domain Names (EURid), since the general launch of the European Internet top level domain .eu in April this year, more than 2 million Internet address ending with .eu have been registered.
The domain promoting a European identity has proven to be the most popular with the Germans, who have registered 631,012 names followed by the British (373,798 names) and the Dutch (237,259 names).
EURid announced that:
"The new Internet top level domain .eu has, in a very short time, become the third largest domain in Europe and the seventh largest internationally. This happened recently when .eu passed the Dutch “.nl” in popularity. Now only Germany’s “.de” and the British “.uk” have more registrations within Europe while globally .eu is still catching up to .info, .org, .net and .com."
“When we opened .eu for the public in April this year we were convinced it would prove popular, but no one anticipated these high numbers. We are pleased to see that people from all European countries have shown an interest in conveying a European identity on the Internet,” stated Marc Van Wesemael, Managing Director for EURid.
EURid is a not-for-profit organisation appointed by the European Commission in 2003 to register and manage .eu domain names.
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