.eu Website Survey - Less Than 22% Actively Developed
WhoisIreland.com surveyed over 1.436 Million .eu websites in June. Less than 22% of these websites were actively developed. This active development figure is likely to be downgraded. Out of approximately 1.77M resolving domains (from 2.15M tracked - 2.13M were surveyed) there are approximately 1.436M websites.
| Webtype | Websites | Web % | Total % |
| A | 373612 | 26.0223 | 21.0975 |
| B | 82188 | 5.7244 | 4.6411 |
| D | 46450 | 3.2353 | 2.6230 |
| F | 96342 | 6.7103 | 5.4403 |
| H | 310639 | 21.6362 | 17.5414 |
| N | 3088 | 0.2151 | 0.1744 |
| P | 106361 | 7.4081 | 6.0061 |
| R | 275886 | 19.2156 | 15.5790 |
| S | 8331 | 0.5803 | 0.4704 |
| U | 4565 | 0.3180 | 0.2578 |
| W | 126224 | 8.7916 | 7.1277 |
| X | 2053 | 0.1430 | 0.1159 |
B: Brand protection registration.
D: refresh in webpage.
F: Forbidden or other 4nn code.
H: Holding page with no content.
N: Duplicate content network of sites.
P: PPC parked.
R: Redirected (301/302 codes).
S: Site is for sale or rent.
U: Site unavailable (127.0.0.1 is not a valid IP etc).
W: Domain aggregation network sites.
X: Porn sites.The classification process is still underway and the actively developed websites figure is continually being downgraded as “coming soon” and parking sites. It would not be unthinkable to see a figure closer to 10% for the number of active .eu websites.The usage of .eu is a disaster. However it may have some attractions for businesses that operate on a Europe wide basis. But as a domain for Europe, it is irrelevant.
The classifcation process is based on search engine index building methods. The response codes are only the start of the process. The process itself involves analysing the titles, keywords and descriptions for each site and comparing the html.
In any case, this may provide the basis for a .eu webdirectory or search engine. But are people really interested in .eu ccTLD?
Tags: Irishblogs,Eurid, .eu Statistics, Domains, searchengines, Internet Statistics, Cyberwarehousing, domainnames
Written by John McCormac on July 10th, 2007 with 4 comments.
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