Well, yesterday was April 7, 2006 the public “landrush” launch of the .eu gTLD. THe Registry EURid has published a live ranking of registrant countries.
At the time of writing it reads
AT 24,425
AX 613
BE 30,604
CY 72,923
CZ 14,715
DE 369,540
DK 18,059
EE 1,015
ES 19,761
FI 3,704
FR 47,821
GB 259,036
GF 3
GI 216
GP 10
GR 5,544
HU 6,535
IE 15,708
IT 78,190
LT 1,208
LU 9,209
LV 2,048
MQ 4
MT 6,681
NL 145,679
PL 19,991
PT 2,099
RE 54
SE 59,467
SI 979
SK 3,791
I’d like to see this list supplemented with the populations of the countries, and per capital figure therefrom calculated. But even in it’s absense a few things are clear DE - Germany and NL- Netherlands like the domain, and indeed these are in the core of the Union. More surprising is the high uptake from GB - Great Britain, what about their euro-sceptics? and the low uptake from FR - France. Continue reading ‘.eu gTLD registrant locations’
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