Eurid,the company behind .eu domain names ,has recently released the Q1 2012 progress report.The reports revealed that .eu domain name registrations grew by 6.1% year over years.

You can read the press release after the jump :

     ".eu domain name registrations grew by 6.1% year over year, according to the Q1 2012 progress report from the .eu top-level domain registry, EURid. This represents the best annual growth in .eu registrations since Q3 2010. The first quarter also saw 9% more new .eu registrations than at the same time one year ago.

      "I am encouraged by .eu’s good start to the year and our continued upward growth in domain name registrations," said EURid’s General Manager, Marc Van Wesemael. "It is a clear signal that Europeans have a definite appetite for .eu."

      Lithuania recorded the highest annual growth, with a 31% increase of .eu registrations compared with Q1 2011, followed by Austria (22%) and Slovakia (18%). During the same period, registrations in a further seven European Union countries - Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, France, Italy, Malta, Poland and Slovenia - grew by 10% or more.

      .eu completed the first quarter of 2012 with 3.59 million registered domain names. During this quarter, .eu registrations increased in 23 of the 27 EU nations. Malta, Slovenia and Finland all saw quarterly growth of over 4%.

The full report for Q1 2012 is available for download at http://link.eurid.eu/reports.

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