.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.
Tags: Irishblogs,.eu Statistics, Domains, Webhoster Stats, Internet Statistics, Eurid, Cyberwarehousing, domainnames
Written by John McCormac on April 6th, 2007 with
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#2. April 9th, 2007, at 3:04 PM.
The interesting thing is that the number of UK .eu registrations is falling faster than anywhere else. 441586 on 20070405 and 423137 .eu domains at the moment.