Malta with highest annual growth in .eu registrations

Third-quarter .eu domain name registrations grew by over 7% year-on-year for the second consecutive quarter, according to a report from the .eu registry, EURid.

The third quarter's net growth rate of 7.4 percent was consistent with the second quarter's 7.6 percent result.

The report shows that Malta had the highest annual growth, a 35 percent rise in .eu registrations compared with the third quarter of 2011, followed by Slovakia (22%) and Austria (21%). During the same period, registrations grew by over 15 percent annually in a further four European Union countries: the Czech Republic, Greece, Lithuania and Slovenia.

.eu completed the third quarter of 2012 with 3.67 million registered domain names. Across the EU, there were 8% more new .eu registrations in the third quarter than during the same quarter in 2011. During these three months, Malta, Greece, Slovakia and Spain all increased by 5 percent or more.