.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

A: Active/not yet classified.
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?
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Written by John McCormac on July 10th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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#3. August 2nd, 2007, at 9:20 AM.

What a surprise!

B + D + N + P + W + X = ~25% are all web pages. Then there is type A where about 25% also aren’t classified - let’s assume 50% of these domains have websites, then we have already 40% of whole .eu - sorry, but so much better are there other TLDs also not.
And to compare it with .IE which costs about 50 - 100 Euro per year is unrealistic, due to the fact that for such a price per domain, nobody would let his domain unused.

I would never think, that more then 50% of all .com domains will be used for a real website - but i still don’t call .com a disaster…

Thanks.