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EU Registry Reports Strong Growth And High Renewal Rates

September 18, 2012 by Michele Neylon

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 growth in .eu domain registration is … [Read more...] about EU Registry Reports Strong Growth And High Renewal Rates

Eurid Rolling Out IPv6 On Production Services

March 5, 2012 by Michele Neylon

Eurid the EU registry - logo (black on white version)

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 offering the full range of services … [Read more...] about Eurid Rolling Out IPv6 On Production Services

EU Registry Giving Away Ipads To Registrants

November 15, 2011 by Michele Neylon

Eurid, the registry for .eu domain names, is running a competition from the end of November until Christmas day. Anyone who registers a .eu domain name between November 24th and December 25th will be entered into a draw to win an iPad 2. Draws are being held on 2, 9, 16 and 27 December 2011 with two iPads up for grabs during each draw. (And of course Blacknight is … [Read more...] about EU Registry Giving Away Ipads To Registrants

Eurid Registrar Advisory Board Gets New Member

November 14, 2011 by Michele Neylon

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, … [Read more...] about Eurid Registrar Advisory Board Gets New Member

EU Registry Suffers Serious Outage

November 16, 2010 by Michele Neylon

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 be anything up to 12 hours, though I … [Read more...] about EU Registry Suffers Serious Outage

Eurid Report Shows Registrants Prefer Local Registrars

August 23, 2010 by Michele Neylon

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% choose another registrar in the EU, while 17% choose a registrar from … [Read more...] about Eurid Report Shows Registrants Prefer Local Registrars

Eurid DNSSEC Goes Live Tomorrow

June 14, 2010 by Michele Neylon

Eurid, the registry operator for .eu, will be signing the .eu zone from tomorrow at 10am Central European Time. They expect that the full signing of the zone will take about two hours to complete. … [Read more...] about Eurid DNSSEC Goes Live Tomorrow

Eurid Now On YouTube

March 18, 2010 by Michele Neylon

Image via CrunchBaseEurid now have a YouTube channel and so far they've got three videos on there, which isn't a bad start.The number of domain registries and registrars setting themselves up on Youtube and Facebook is constantly increasing, though only a very small number of organisations seem to really do anything more than pay lip service to the concepts.Will the same happen … [Read more...] about Eurid Now On YouTube

EU IDNs – Some Governments Still Don’t Get It!

September 20, 2009 by Michele Neylon

Image via WikipediaWhen .eu launched a couple of years ago all member states were given the chance to put names down on a "reserve list". The idea being that these names should only be registered either by the state or its organs. Unfortunately some governments didn't take advantage of this, with the end result being that the .eu launch led to domains like cork.eu and dublin.eu … [Read more...] about EU IDNs – Some Governments Still Don’t Get It!

Eurid To Keep .EU?

March 4, 2009 by Michele Neylon

Image via WikipediaAccording to a news alert I received last night, Eurid's contract to manage the .eu namespace has been renewed for a further 5 years.The news, which appears to have either been broken or leaked at the Eurid registrar dinner last night in Mexico city appeared on a French domain news site, but has since vanished.If anyone can confirm or deny this news it would … [Read more...] about Eurid To Keep .EU?

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