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11.04.2006. |
Hundreds of thousands of people have signed up for new .eu domain name since it became available to the public on Friday, April 7. It follows a four-month period that let firms reserve domains to match their trademarks.
Interest in .eu was expected to be high as with speculators snapping up the most popular domain names.
"Today, Europe's competitive knowledge society becomes very visible to the world on the internet," said the EU Information Society and Media Commissioner Viviane Reding. "Europe and its citizens can now project their own web identity, protected by EU rules," she said.
According to the .eu administrator EURid, German and British net users account for most of the domain name applications. British registrants made up 236,573, just behind Germany with 237,928. In third place were the Dutch with 125,426 applications.
Backed by the European Commission, the .eu domain is intended for organisations and people based in the 25 nations of the trading bloc.
More than 1,500 firms have signed up to sell the .eu domains at prices ranging from 12 to 100 euros.
The sunrise period was run in two stages. For the first two months from 7 December 2005, public organisations and trademark holders could apply. On 7 February those who had owned "other rights" could apply and all EU citizens get the chance from 7 April.
Source: BBC News
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