Germans lead the charge to register .eu domain names

Since Friday, any of the European Union’s 450 million citizens can register a new .eu domain name. Though the Brussels-based European Registry of Internet Domain Names (EURid) did not expect to be trampled in the stampede, it received 350,000 pre-registration applications and a further 560,000 on the first day – making .eu bigger than many small country domains, though still behind the 4.8m permutations of .uk, or the 10m .com domains.