Over 1 Million .eu Domains and Counting

gavint writes "In the first 12 hours since "Landrush" registration of .eu Domains begun at 11:00 CET, over 1 million have been registered. Predictions of .eu becoming the second biggest domain after .com look like they may become true, with Nominet being responsible for "over four million" .uk domains, the second biggest namespace. The UK initially led the way during Landrush but have since been overtaken by Germany, with over a quarter of all registered domains. Meanwhile many "Sunrise" period applications where businesses are able to protect domains where they hold a prior right remain unprocessed, although these domains cannot be registered yet during Landrush. Over 1,000 registration agents were only allowed one connection each to EURid's servers in order to prevent problems and ensure fairness."

Re:Hmm

[richardablitt]

The Cook islands, somewhere between Australia and South America.

uk second biggest domain after .com?

[Anonymous Coward]

According to Nominet http://www.nic.uk/ [www.nic.uk] it's only the forth biggest namespace, not second.
As far as I know, Germany (over 9.5 million .de-domains) has the second largest namespace.

some .eus :)

[tomasvilda]

http://www.google.lt/search?q=site:.eu [google.lt] -- http://stilius.net/ [stilius.net]

Re:Relatively few from France?

[Anne Honime]

What does that say about France's EU feeling?

Not much, I think ; historicaly, *.fr has been reserved to chartered companies and trademarks holders, so many french individuals had to buy a .com or .net already. Many companies did, too,because .fr is f*cking expensive. This afnic nonsense is backfiring today, because those who might have been interested are avoiding "continental red tape" (we invented it, so we have developped more strategies than others to turn around it whenever possible) and will probably stick with a general TLD unless the almighty USoA start pissing us by tightening the conditions of registration.

Re:Question:

[floorpirate]

A good portion of the money for a domain goes to whatever organization/company runs the registry. It pays for their staff, equipment, Net connection, etc. Don't know what the .eu domains actually cost, but for most domains, usually around half goes to the registry and the other half to the registrar that the domain was purchased through.

Re:.eu is useless, it's a domain DMZ

[dajak]

Spar, Ahold, Carrefour, Delhaize. In most countries just 2 or 3 multinational chains dominate the market. Most multinational European chains operate under different names in different member countries, though. Ahold and Delhaize also operate in the US under 10 different names.

Re:big in GB...

[bogjobber]

Well that's slightly different. Hawaii had absolutely no cultural or geographic link to the Americas before about 150 years ago. Hawaii is also much further away from the US than Great Britain is from Europe. You can't exactly ride the train from Honolulu to LA. For example, the distance from Honolulu to San Diego (the closest large city from Hawaii) is about the same as the distance from London to Jerusalem.

Re:.EU is more important then you might think

[LeftOfCentre]

Actually, .eu in this case does mean European Union and nothing else. Only businesses, organizations and residents of the union can register a domain under the new TLD.