Top 10 .eu Hosters - October 2006
These are the top 10 .eu hosters as of 01/October/2006. The figures are based on approximately 81.57% of .eu domains mapped. The data is from a spreadsheet based report on the .eu ccTLD that will be published shortly by WhoisIreland.com (Details available from salesdept@whoisireland.com).The term BIONIC refers to the gTLDs and the .ie ccTLD (Biz/Info/Org/Net/Ie/Com).
What is unusual is that no UK hoster features in the top ten hosters. The number of parking and monetisation hosters (Sedo, Ovido Limited, Fabulous.com, Xss.ro, Blizem.nl) in the top hosters is unhealthy for any ccTLD.
Hoster — BIONIC — .eu — Country
- 1UND1.DE 345874 — 109834 — DE
- UDAGDNS.NET 244866 — 105153 — DE
- RZONE.DE 158584 — 78161 — DE
- OVIDIOLIMITED.COM 0 — 62836 — CY
- SEDOPARKING.COM 832876 — 55193 — US
- XSS.RO 27 — 43371 — RO
- FABULOUS.COM 811759 — 42108 — AU
- TECHNORAIL.COM 226748 — 39706 — IT
- BLIXEM.NL 34 — 38276 — NL
- SECURESERVER.NET 8321657 — 28265 — US
The Ovidio / Fausto /Gabino Limited counts have massively increased the number of Cyprus (CY) registered domains. This is the Ovidio syndicate direct navigation network. The XSS.RO count is due to a cyberwarehousing operation. It had previously had its domain on the nameservers of a few European registrars but moved these domains to Romanian IP space in late Summer.
The prominence of German hosters is to be expected as Germany has the most .eu domains registered. Though many of these domains, like the bulk of .eu seem to be pointed at parking pages. Like many things, the .eu dream may be coming soon. But for many Irish, UK and European companies and rights holders who have seen their domains squatted thanks to PwC BE’s pathetically robotic attitude to the Sunrise rules and even its granting domains to dubious Benelux ampersand trademarks, it is already a nightmare.
Tags: Irishblogs,.eu Statistics, Domains, Webhoster Stats, Internet Statistics, Eurid, Cyberwarehousing, domainnames
Written by John McCormac on October 13th, 2006 with
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