About 2.6 million domain names have already been registered, the European Commission reported on Wednesday. One survey indicates that as many as one out of every five Europeans owns a .eu name.
Germany holds the most registrations, with 795,000 domains. It is followed by the United Kingdom, with 439,000, and the Dutch with 320,000. Registrations are limited to EU residents, and cost between 10 to 30 euros ($13.37-$40.11 USD) per year.
.eu was opened to the public in April of last year following a six-month period where businesses got priority on their copyrighted and trademarked names. The EC claimed that some 700,000 registrations were received in the first four hours alone.
80 percent of those domains purchased are running a website. Only .uk and .de are more popular than .eu, although as preliminary statistics show, those countries also carry the highest .eu registration rates as well.
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