07.13.06
2 million .eu domain names SNAPPED
EURid, the registry for the .eu top-level domain, reported on Thursday, July 13, that the number of .eu domain names has passed 2 million.
There are currently 2,029,322 .eu domain names, and .eu has now climbed past the .nl TLD to become the seventh largest TLD in the world. (A list of the top 10 TLDs in the world at the beginning of June can be found here.)
The distribution of .eu domain names is dominated by Germany, United Kingdom and the Netherlands. These three countries hold 62% of the .eu domain names.
Top 10 countries for .eu
Germany (635,123)
United Kingdom (366,290)
Netherlands (239,127)
Italy (117,740)
France (111,173)
Cyprus (84,998)
Sweden (75,924)
Belgium (53,735)
Poland (48,039)
Austria (44,394)
(Data from EURid. Up-to-date statistics regarding .eu can be found at http://status.eurid.eu.)
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