Tag: Eurid

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

Eurid DNSSEC Goes Live Tomorrow

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.

Eurid Now On YouTube

Image via CrunchBase Eurid 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… Continue reading Eurid Now On YouTube

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

Image via Wikipedia When .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… Continue reading EU IDNs – Some Governments Still Don’t Get It!

Exit mobile version