.eu: Your European IdentityResellerClub Reseller Webinar

12 November 2014

Agenda

About EURid and .eu

About EURid

not-for-profit organisation managed and

operated .eu since 2003 upon appointment by the

European Commission, following a tender process.

Going green

environmentally responsible approach to operating .eu

based on the principle of “reduce, reuse and recycle”

Multi-lingual support

24 official EU languages are supported

>750 accredited registrars worldwide

Registry-Registrar-Registrant model

About .eu

Country Code TLD

7 April 2006: live registrations

strictly first-come, first-served basis

Eligibility criteria for .eu

Section 1 of the Domain Name Registration Policy

The registrant must be:

An undertaking having its registered office, central administration or principal place of business within the European Union, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein, Or, an organisation established within the European Union, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein without prejudice to the application of national law, or A natural person resident within the European Union,  Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein.

http://www.eurid.eu/en/document-repository

Why choose .eu?

16 May 2011 City,

Why choose .eu? (1)

Why choose .eu? (2)

Why choose .eu? (3)

Protecting registrants online

Technical protocols

DNSSEC enabled

Registration Screening

To combat cybercrime To ensure the eligibility criteria are met

Only natural persons or organisations based in the European Union, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein may register a .eu domain name

IDNs

Accepted characters:

Alphabetical characters a to zNumbers 0 through 9Hyphen (-)Unicode characters from the Cyrillic, Greek or Latin scriptsCharacters from different scripts cannot be combined

End Q2‘14: 1.4% of all registrations under .eu

IDN World Report 2014 produced by EURid with UNESCO in cooperation with Verisign and the country code Top Level Domain regional organisations (CENTR, LACTLD, APTLD and AFTLD).

We help you to promote .eu

Testimonialswww.ambitionhasanaddress.eu

Google campaign: when?

Duration: 2 months as of 15 October 2014

Target audience: European SMEs, start-ups, businesses 

Google campaign: where?

Spain, UK, Ireland, Norway, Italy, Czech Republic, Netherlands, Belgium, Poland, France and Germany.

Spain: http://www.eurid.eu/es/obtenga-su-eu

UK, Ireland, Norway: http://www.eurid.eu/en/get-eu

Italy: http://www.eurid.eu/it/scegli-un-eu Czech Republic:

http://www.eurid.eu/cs/zaregistrujte-si-eu

Netherlands, Belgium: http://www.eurid.eu/nl/registreer-een-eu

Poland: http://www.eurid.eu/pl/wybierz-domene-eu

France, Belgium: http://www.eurid.eu/fr/obtenez-un-eu

Germany: http://www.eurid.eu/de/registrieren-sie-eine-eu-domain

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Facts & FiguresSource: EURid’s Q2 report

16 May 2011 City,

World top 12 TLDs

New .eu registrations per day

Top 10 countries with most .eu registrations

The countries in the top ten list account for 87.8% of all .eu registrations.

Total number .eu per country of registrant

Growth by country, Q over Q and Y over Y

Domain name registrations increased in 21 countries. Especially popular in HR, RO, FI

Thank you!Joke BraekenDeputy Manager External Relationshttp://www.eurid.eu