.eu Figures Show Post-Landrush Fall Off

The .eu ccTLD is facing a typical post-landrush fall off in registrations. While registrations have not stopped, they are kept high by the numbers of Sunrise domains being activated. The real crunch comes when these Sunrise activations finish and the stream of rejected Sunrise domains being released into the market fades out.
The figures below are the monthly changes sampled at the beginning and end day of each month since May. (The November figure is only as far 17/November/2006). The Active delta is the change in the number of active .eu domains. The Accepted delta is the change in number of Sunrise applications accepted. The Rejected delta is the change in number of Sunrise applications rejected.

Delta Active Accepted Rej Exp Daily Avg
May-06 147311 24783 10345 8890 4910
Jun-06 155432 7119 9744 9744 5181
Jul-06 -2352 8586 5016 7 2373
Aug-06 78283 12446 4266 4 2525
Sep-06 68348 6317 14945 3 2278
Oct-06 150278 4537 11417 0 2399
Nov-06 39844 38 19 1 2344

The July figures were skewed by EURid putting approximately 75922 domains ON HOLD. The majority of these are believed to be the Ovidio syndicate domains. The domains were reactivated by EURid after Ovidio won a legal action against EURid in October.

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Written by John McCormac on November 17th, 2006 with comments disabled.
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