As of Sunday evening almost 1.3M .eu domain names have been registered.
The pace of registrations is slowing dramatically with fewer than 300,000 registered over the past 48 hours. Many of the initial 1,000,000 registrations were “pre-orders” from drop catching services like Pool. It’s safe to say that most of the good domains are now locked up.
It will be interesting to watch for the first action on the domain aftermarkets for .eu domains. I wouldn’t be surprised if some of the bogus companies that snagged domains during the sunrise period start selling some of their “trademark” domains. This would be proof-positive that the sunrise period of domain registration is a joke.
Germany is leading Europe with 409,653 registrations. Great Britain residents have registered 268,202 and Netherlands residents have registered 152,365.
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