French reject .EU domains as Cypriot registrations beat the French
French registrations of .EU domains show a clear rejection of the name by the French. After 24 hours, the French have only registered one fifth the number of domains (48,000) that the British have registered (260,000) – even though proportionately the countries are virtually the same size. But French registrations at are also significantly behind […]
Rush for .EU begins "most important top level domain ever"
The BBC reports on the opening of the doors of EurID to allcomers trying to register one of the valuable .EU domains – now on a first come first served basis. Already 300,000 have used the sunrise period to register a domain where a previous claim existed – such as a trademark or trading history. […]
UK behind Germany, France and the Netherlands on .eu applications
The number of applications for .eu domain names seems to be somewhat tardy in the UK, according to the current figures from Eurid – where Germany – not surprisingly – is way in the lead with 81,000 applications, followed by the Netherlands with 44,000, France at 29,000 and the UK trailing the leading group with […]
Google starts business in Hungary – officially
Nepszabadság Online reported Google has launched its own Ltd in Hungary. The Google Számítástechnikai Szolgáltató Kft. (Google IT Services Ltd.) has 25 million HUF capital (approx. EUR 100.000), The management are David C. Drummond, George Reyes and Nikesh Arora. Although that capital is relatively high, we don’t expect any extensive business activity because they likely […]
Berlin: Travelocity says travel consolidation will cut search engine revenues
Speaking at the eyefortravel Sales and Marketing in Travel Europe conference in Berlin, Jan Oetjen, Travelocity’s managing director Germany, said that the search engine revenues would be cut following the likely consolidation in the travel industry. “We all know that travel is a major buyer for the search engines, consolidation would bring down the costs […]
25% of Belgian companies may switch to .EU domain
Proximedia of Belgium is predicting that 25% of Belgian companies are likely to switch to using a .be domain name. European businesses abuzz over ‘.eu’ domain names – INQ7.net
Firefox browser use expands rapidly in Europe
XiTimonitor has published a study showing that Firefox is truly taking off with European audiences. Norway and Portugal have been the fastest growers in the last with 19% and 15% respectively. Five eastern European countries score for the first time – Bulgaria, Croatia, Latvia, Ukraine and Slovakia. Top scorers are Finland, Germany and Poland.
Big Clique African-American search engine launches in 17 languages
Mr. Olu, the Will Smith of search engines, has created a new search engine for the world – Big Clique – in fact covering 17 languages from day one an amazingly ambitious undertaking! Big Clique claims to offer ‘Just search…’ and nothing else. The choice of languages is intriguing comprising English, Italian, German, Spanish, Finnish, […]
Big businesses use the internet to buy, and they’re all connected – Eurostat
The official statistics body of the European Union – known as Eurostat – announced its 30 nation report on internet usage throughout Europe on Friday. Report author Morag Ottens, concludes “In most countries internet penetration has reached saturation point in large enterprises” – he also found that 48% of large European enterprises had purchased via […]
The search marketing association EU goes for lift off
For some months a group of search marketers around Europe have been drafting a constitution and plans for an association to represent search marketers. Following the success of the SMA-UK, Mikkel deMib Svendsen and Andy Atkins-Krüger have been working with Sante Achille from Italy, Ben van den Bergh from the Netherlands, Olivier Guillo of France, […]