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CORANTE John Yunker is founder of Byte Level Research and author of the widely acclaimed book, Beyond Borders: Web Globalization Strategies and editor of Global By Design.

He has covered the emerging field of Web globalization for half a decade and has published a wide range of reports dedicated to best practices in Web localization and internationalization.
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April 7, 2006

The .eu Land Rush Has Begun

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Posted by John Yunker

I'm not surprised to see the feeding frenzy over .eu. This article reports that more than half a million domains were registered within the first hour of sales. According to the article, "EU Commissioner Viviane Reding said the Commission hopes the new ".eu" name will one day rival the ".com" name."

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