People registered over 1,000,000 .eu domain names during the first day of open registration.
The EURid web site shows 1,089,012 active domain names as of this writing. 702,684 domains were registered within the first 4 hours. The first five domain names registered this morning were dekoration.eu, buchung.eu, tankstellen.eu, exhibitionist.eu, and eurorechner.eu.
What countries are registering the most domains? Germany is in first place with 286,062. This isn’t a huge surprise since the country’s .de domain name is the second most registered domain in the world. In second place is Great Britain with 249,719. The Netherlands rounds out the top 3 with 141,346.
It’s unclear how many of these registrations are purely speculative. The domain name community will keep a close eye on the .eu domain over the next few months to see if it takes off with consumers. The value of speculative domains will only be realized if European internet users and corporations widely adopt the new domain.
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