April 6th, 2007

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Top 20 .eu Hosters April 2007 - WhoisIreland.com

Hoster Country .eu count BIONIC count
1UND1.DE DE 129453 400988
UDAGDNS.NET DE 107775 294154
RZONE.DE DE 97577 236144
OVIDIOLIMITED.COM CY 64875 0
SEDOPARKING.COM US 61282 1159290
NAME-SERVICES.COM US 57638 2854860
TECHNORAIL.COM IT 44356 256382
XSS.RO RO 43769 36
BLIXEM.NL NL 39639 31
FABULOUS.COM AU 37264 777255
SECURESERVER.NET US 30272 10283980
EURODNS.COM LU 29879 20702
REGISTER.IT IT 24433 87806
OVH.NET FR 24335 382009
1AND1.CO.UK UK 21557 353299
GANDI.NET FR 17735 246320
HOSTEUROPE.COM UK 17414 72024
NETART.PL PL 14262 27395
HOME.PL PL 12973 21528
1AND1.FR FR 12773 155683

The figures above are .eu statistics based on over 2 million mapped .eu domains. The BIONIC figure refers to the number of Biz / Info / Org / Net / Ie / Com domains on a hoster.
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Written by John McCormac on April 6th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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.eu Drops Below 2.6 Million Domains

Tomorrow is the anniversary of the .eu landrush and the active .eu domain count on EURid’s status page has started to flutter again. It has now dropped below 2.6 million active .eu domains.
Yesterday evening, the figure was 2605363 active domains. Today at 1028 IST, the figure stands at 2599548. The .eu figures are beginning to fall as .eu domains are dropped. The question now is how many .eu domains will be dropped in the coming months?

There has been very little development in .eu ccTLD and despite all the guff from EURid about the use and awareness, .eu ccTLD still takes a back seat far behind EU ccTLDs such as .de and .uk. The main rule for EU countries seems to be that the first choice will be the ccTLD and the second choice will be the .com - if it is available. But then that is the problem with all new TLDs. They each have to face a massive pre-existing market and if they don’t have a unique selling point, then they just become another niche extension. The unique selling point of .eu was that it was a domain for the European Union. However the chronic mismanagement of the ccTLD by EURid has ensured that .eu is now more widely known for cybersquatting and cyberwarehousing than as a trustworthy domain for Europe.

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Written by John McCormac on April 6th, 2007 with 3 comments.
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