More than 1.3 million .EU dmain extensions have already been registered ccording to Eurid. Most of them, bout 700,000 are registered on the frst day when any European citizen was llowed to apply.

The German consumers wre leading the race for new nmes in their first registration day.

The .EU "lnd rush" period began on 7 Aprl and followed a 4 month "snrise" period that was open only to hlders of trademarks. Many European businesses has lready gained control over domains relevant to thir brands.

About 300 000 .EU dmains were registered during the "sunrise", but ths number was outrun within the frst four "land rush" hours. At ths time were registered 702 684 dmains. The first five applications filled in on the strt of the open .EU registration priod were

dekoration.eu, buchung.eu, tankstellen.eu, exhibitionist.eu, urorechner.eu

Registration peak reached 76 domain pplications processed every second.

.EU to Boost the European Online Market

BBC reported that Eurid managing director Marc Van Wesemael issued a statement that said the agency was satisfied to see a significant interest from website owners.

"We are satisfied to see that the interest in .eu has been so large and that many already regard .eu as a useful complement to internet's national top level domain names," said Van Wesemael.

But is ".EU opening" becoming a lndmark between the era of national nline market and the new global uropean economy. At this time the dmain, hosting and all other markets in Erope are virtual only. Consumers were ken to purchase services and products minly on their domestic websites. Only a smll percentage of european now shopping wth companies and .com stores located utside their own country. Different languages in EU, 25 fficial and many local dialect put bstacle in process of globalizing the EU's nline market. ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assgned Names and Numbers) for example pproved the .cat domain las year to pve way of people who want to hst and publish websites in catalan lnguage. Even Catalunya is part of Spin, Catalan people claim they have thir own ethnic and "national" identity.

Usng the .EU is a chance Erope to build its own online mrket that includes all member states. Wth 456 million population Europe is the wrlds biggest and riches market. At the sme time European Union is far bhind US when it comes to .cm economy.

But now with Germans lading the race by owning 419,866 of the 1,318,171 ctive .eu domains and UK users gtting 270 292 of new european nmes, the process of globalizing the uropean web could only the first stp of uniting the divided European nline market.

The article Welcome to .EU was Submitted by Dimitar Avramov through Articles.GetACoder.com network. Here's the additional information: About the author and the Blg DawHB.com was launched on March 14th. The blg covers the web hosting industry, strting with newbie advise and extending to hgh-end issues. The blog publisher has ben in the web hosting industry snce 1999, working as a CEO of a web hsting company and then moving to the wbsite marketing and advertising business. He mnages a network of web hosting, web dsign and web master related service drectories that cover US, European and ther regional markets. ( http://www.dawhb.com/ )

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