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So What's Behind .EU Domain's Enormous Success?

Kieren McCarthy writes on his blog:

Well, I was sceptical that people would want .eu domains. What's the point? Do people really feel that European? If they want a domain, why not just buy a .com or their own country's domain. Apart from Germany and the UK, most other European countries have surprisingly few domains registered.

But boy was I wrong. By the end of the first day - the first day! - of .eu domains being open to the public, EURid had sold over one million of them. I called EURid up and they admitted that while they were expecting to sell one million, they had expected it to take a few months.

This morning it is now at 1.27 million (plus 300,000 registrations during the sunrise period) - making it the seventh biggest Internet registry in just two days. Here's a list I've knocked up from the most recent stats.

posted by Fergie @ 4/09/2006 05:23:00 PM