Successfully Launched - .EU - Press Release

[MadAboutDomains]

PRESS RELEASE
.EU SUCCESSFULLY LAUNCHED (UPDATE 18:39 CET)
Brussels, Belgium – 7 December 2005.

Today at 11:00, EURid opened its systems to receive applications for .eu domain names. Some 800 Registrars in 25 countries are still sending in the applications they received from numerous candidate domain name holders all across the EU.

TOTALS
At 11:15:00, we had received 40.503 applications (> 40/second with peaks of >60/second).
At 12:00:00, we counted more than 80.000 applications (>23/second).
At 13:55:00, we counted 95.370 applications.
At 16:13:00, we counted 98.718 applications.
At 17:12:00, we counted 99.928 applications.
At 18:45:00, we counted 100.000 applications.

BREAKDOWN at 17:12:00 CET
Total applications 99.928
Unique applications (only 1 application for the domain name) 78.565
Corresponding to
• geographical indications or denominations of origin 645
• public bodies 7.728
• national trade marks 70.090
• community or international trade marks 21.455

Top 3 by time of reception (milliseconds):

1. tickets.eu 11:00:01.699
2. job.eu 11:00:01.711
3. hotels.eu 11:00:01.712

Top 12 most requested domain names at 17:38 CET :
1. sex.eu 213
2. hotel.eu 112
3. travel.eu 90
4. jobs.eu 89
5. hotels.eu 86
6. casino 76
7. poker 72
8. golf 67
9. business 66
10. music 64
11. porn 63
12. shopping 63

Breakdown per country at 17:34 CET :
percentage of applications by applicants originating from
1. Germany 34.89%
2. France 12.76%
3. The Netherlands 12.39%
4. UK 10.14%
5. Belgium 5.85%
6. Sweden 4.80%
7. Italy 4.15%
8. Austria 3.05%

Please bear in mind that these applications are made under Sunrise I, the first phase of the .eu launch in which only public bodies and holders of prior rights (such as trade marks) can apply for registration.
An updated statement will follow tomorrow, 8 December.

Source: http://www.eurid.eu/en/registrant/press

 

[gazzip]

Nice read - Top 12 most requested domain names at 17:38 CET :
1. sex.eu 213
2. hotel.eu 112
3. travel.eu 90
4. jobs.eu 89
5. hotels.eu 86
6. casino 76
7. poker 72
8. golf 67
9. business 66
10. music 64
11. porn 63
12. shopping 63

Now there's a surprise !! :lol:

 

[MadAboutDomains]

Nice read - Top 12 most requested domain names at 17:38 CET :
1. sex.eu 213
2. hotel.eu 112
3. travel.eu 90
4. jobs.eu 89
5. hotels.eu 86
6. casino 76
7. poker 72
8. golf 67
9. business 66
10. music 64
11. porn 63
12. shopping 63

Now there's a surprise !! :lol:

haha... Although Im surprised that Porn wasn't higher up the list. Also, I'm slightly surprised that 'Golf' is in the mix at all!

 

[gazzip]

haha... Although Im surprised that Porn wasn't higher up the list. Also, I'm slightly surprised that 'Golf' is in the mix at all!

I'm surprised Porn is'nt higher aswell, there's some serious money in Golf, big bucks.

 

[MadAboutDomains]

I'm surprised Porn is'nt higher aswell, there's some serious money in Golf, big bucks.

Actually, now you come to mention it, there is even an artical on DN Journal about some golf domains

 

[Macke]

damn. a swede seems to be first in que for Travel.eu, Poker.eu and Sex.eu.
And the funny shit is that he got trademark for ALL of them.. in the category for some kind of meat. funny. but he is a serious professional also..

 

[wot]

damn. a swede seems to be first in que for Travel.eu, Poker.eu and Sex.eu.
And the funny shit is that he got trademark for ALL of them.. in the category for some kind of meat. funny. but he is a serious professional also..

I am sure it all completely genuine and eurid will confirm that :td: Why should they be any smarter than the other cctld monitors.

There was a succesfull .in trademark reg for SMS.in , to the best on my knowledge the guy got the trademark because his supermarket initials were SSM - not even in the right order