Category: Eurid

Who Is Using Domains and How?

So what happens to a domain after it is registered? Where does it end up? Who uses it? How do they use it? These aren’t trivial questions, as they provide very clear indicators of how an entire namespace is growing or dying .. If a a TLD isn’t used actively then it will die. And… Continue reading Who Is Using Domains and How?

DotEU By The Numbers

The guys over at EUrid released a nice graphic that gives a summary of key data related to .eu in 2013: At the recent ICANN meeting in London EUrid was firmly focussed on highlighting European businesses that actively use .eu for their websites.     Related articles EUrid Awarded .eu Contract For 5 Years (internetnews.me)… Continue reading DotEU By The Numbers

EUrid Awarded .eu Contract For 5 Years

EUrid have officially been awarded the contract to run the .eu domain registry for another 5 years. The contract, which is awarded by the European Commission, was open for tender last year and the official announcement was only made today. The announcement is in today’s Official Journal of the European Union Interestingly there was only… Continue reading EUrid Awarded .eu Contract For 5 Years

EU Registry Reports Strong Growth And High Renewal Rates

Eurid, the registry for the .eu domain name, has released their quarterly results today. The registry’s performance over the last quarter has been strong with registration rates up 7.6% compared to the same period last year. Renewal rates are also doing very well, with a rate of 85% being reported. As in previous reports, the… Continue reading EU Registry Reports Strong Growth And High Renewal Rates

Eurid Rolling Out IPv6 On Production Services

Eurid, the registry operator for .eu, has announced that it will be rolling out IPv6 across its remaining websites, including the registrar extranet. The registry operator is currently running its main site on both IPv4 and IPv6. All sites should be 100% dual-stack from May 2nd 2012. Unfortunately it does not look like they’ll be… Continue reading Eurid Rolling Out IPv6 On Production Services

Eurid Registrar Advisory Board Gets New Member

Eurid has announced that French registrar MailClub is to join the Eurid Registrar Advisory Board. Two of the other members of the board have been re-appointed for a second term. The board’s composition is, therefore, as follows: Dimitris Anthoulakis, Usableweb Ltd (Greece) Markus Eggensperger, United Domains AG (Germany), reappointed for a second term Adam Eisner,… Continue reading Eurid Registrar Advisory Board Gets New Member

EU Registry Suffers Serious Outage

Eurid, the operator of the .eu registry, has suffered a serious outage. According to official communications from the registry the systems were offline from last night until earlier today (though no official communication about the servers coming back online has been made) How long was the registry offline? By the looks of things it could… Continue reading EU Registry Suffers Serious Outage

Eurid Report Shows Registrants Prefer Local Registrars

Eurid, the registry operator for .eu, have released a report in relation to how registrants register their .eu domain names ie. if you are based in country X, are you more likely to use a registrar based “in country” or go overseas? The results show that 65% of registrants stay with a domestic registrar, 18%… Continue reading Eurid Report Shows Registrants Prefer Local Registrars

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