Use of .eu domain name grows rapidly

Europe's internet domain .eu celebrated its first year of being open to the public in April 2007. Over 2.5 million domain names have been registered. This enormous number of active users makes .eu Europe's third most popular top level domain (TLD) and seventh most popular worldwide. With a 17% increase of registrations over the past five months, .eu is also one of the fastest growing TLD names on the web.

European Commission: Press release: IP/07/483: .eu one year on: over 2.5 million have taken up a European address on the web http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/07/483&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

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