European domains: European Union (.eu)

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To register your European Union domain, click here!

Is your domain name working hard enough?

Currently, whether you have registered a .com or a .co.uk domain there are no restrictions if you would like to register both versions of your domain name - and many people do!.

Of course, the choice is all a matter of your preference - .com is often regarded as "International" where the .co.uk domain is deemed to be "UK only", usually it depends on the target market.

Whilst, the .com domain is recognised world wide, it is easier to remember and to type, and there is a whole world full of people who could register it before you do!

If your target is primarily the UK market then registering just the .co.uk domain would seem to be the obvious choice. The .co.uk instantly identifies you as a UK company and often, given a list of URLs in a search engine, people will choose a domain / URL with their country code. Therefore, it follows that if you want to extend your target market then registering your domain with other country-code top-level domains (ccTLD) will expand your target audience.

Registering both .com and .co.uk (and others such as .at, .dk, .es, .eu, .ie, .it, .nz, .se etc) domain names in fact makes very good sense - it stops anyone else from registering your name and leaves it ready for you to use either right away or in the future. Did you know that with Web Forwarding you can have as many domain names as you like pointing to a single website - see Web Forwarding below.

Email Forwarding

Create an almost unlimited number of unique Email addresses for your domain name (e.g. me@yourdomain.com, info@yourdomain.com,sales@yourdomain.com, etc.) and forward them to your existing email account(s). Set up each employee or family member with their own personal Email address.

Catch All Email

Simply tell us 'one' address to have all your messages sent to and all of your emails will be forwarded to that address.

Web Forwarding

If you already have a website, start using your domain name without the additional cost of hosting. When a user enters your domain name into their browser, they'll be redirected to your existing website.

You can have many domain names forwarded to a single website.

Web Hosting

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Background

Registrations open to residents of European Union member countries only. You may register as many domains as you wish.

.eu domain names can only be registered for one year at a time, and must be at least 2 characters long with a maximum length of 63 characters.

Some domain names have been reserved by eurID, the ".eu" registry, and are unavailable. These include:

• geographical place names - Restricted geographical domain names
• two letter domain names which match official country codes - Restricted country code domain names
• names reserved for use by member states' governments only. Reserved domain names
• names reserved for the European Commission. EU reserved domain names
• names reserved for use by the ".eu" registry

More information on these reserved names, and lists of the reserved names themselves, can be found by clicking here.

Launched in 2006, the .eu domain represents the European region as a whole and has been tremendously successful. At the time of writing, over 2,500,000 .eu domain names have been registered. The European Union consists of 27 member states, and is the largest economic entity in the world. Any resident with a permanent street address in one of the European Union member states can register an .eu domain name.

Bearing in mind the size of the European Union, and the number of countries this body contains, it is predicted the .eu domain name will become the second most popular domain name after .com addresses. There are nearly 500 million people who live in the European Union, and the number of residents gives weight to this claim. The .eu domain name represents their European identity.

• Population is estimated to be 494,070,000 people
• Gross Domestic Product is $15,200 billion US Dollars
• The European Union consists of 27 member states
• The European currency, the Euro, has been adopted as the national currency of 13 member states
• There are 23 different languages in use in the European Union

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