Eurid, the organisation appointed by the European Commission to administer registration for the ''.eu'' domain name, began receiving applications at 11 a.m. on December 7th. As of 11:15, Eurid had received 40,503 applications for .eu domain names. At last count, which occurred at 1:55 p.m., there were 95,370 applications, 75,306 of which were unique domain name requests.

66,852 of the applications were for national trade marks, 20,673 for international trade marks, 7,225 for public bodies and 620 with geographical indications. The top four most requested domain names have so far been ''sex.eu'', ''hotel.eu'', ''travel.eu'' and ''job.eu'', in that order. The first phase of registration, reserved for trademarked companies and public organisations, extends until 6 February 2006.

The status of .eu domain registration is periodically posted on the Eurid website.