The .EU Domain

There aren’t many domains that have as much impact as .eu. It’s not just about targeting a region, a demonstration of where you belong, but also what the .eu domain represents.

The Most Ecological Domain in Europe

If you want to present yourself as an environmentally friendly company, so should your website. You already have environmentally friendly hosting services. WEDOS has the ISO 14001 (environmental management system) certification, we use energy-saving technologies (cooling, servers, processors …) and our DC WEDOS 2 data center cools servers in an oil bath and send excess heat to the city pool. You won’t find anything greener far and wide 🙂

But what about the domain?

EURid has long sought to minimize the environmental impact of its activities. Like us, it has the ISO 14001 certification. It was the first European registry to register with the EU Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS). This program helps companies optimize production processes, reduce environmental impact and use resources more efficiently.

In addition, their activities support a lot of interesting projects outside the EU:

• 2014 – Construction of wind turbines and production of biodiesel from the seeds of the Jatropha plant in Gujarat, India.
• 2015 – Planting of fruit trees in Asturias, Spain, in an area inhabited by the endangered European brown bear, in cooperation with the Spanish organization FAPAS under the “+ BEARS-CO2” program.
• 2015 – Support for the Ecomapuà project, which aims, among other things, to protect the rich biodiversity of the Amazon.
• 2016 – Support for the Dak Rung hydropower project in Vietnam. This renewable energy project was based on the construction of an 8MW hydroelectric power plant on the Dak Rung River, which supplies electricity from renewable sources to both the local population and the Vietnamese energy system.
• 2017-2018 – support for a project to restore drilled wells in Uganda. The aim of the project is to improve the situation by working with the Ugandan community to repair broken wells and restore access to clean and safe drinking water. In 2018, we supported this project for the second year in a row, this time focusing on the Ugandan areas of Dokolo, Otuke and Alebtong.
• 2019 – support for a project to restore drilled wells in Uganda and also support for a project to restore a forest in Monchique, Portugal, in an area affected by devastating fires in the summer of 2018.
• 2020 – Support for the “Water is Life” project in Madagascar.

If you choose an .eu domain for your website, you can not only be sure that you minimize the impact on the environment, but you will also support interesting projects that help.

• Source: https://eurid.eu/en/welcome-to-eurid/going-green/

Who Uses the .EU Domain Most Often

According to a November 2020 survey conducted by EURid on 150,000 selected domains, the following content is most often found on them.

In our experience, .eu domains are most often used by:

E-shops

It does not matter whether the e-shop targets the Czech market or offers distribution of goods to other EU countries. Customers choose the .eu domain for their e-shop because:

• The appropriate .cz domain is no longer available, and the .eu still offers a number of nice free domain opportunities.
• They want to show that they sell European goods.
• They plan to expand to foreign markets and other language versions of the site will be addressed on the same domain.
• They want to target linguistically close markets (Slovakia, Poland), but they want to avoid the local domain.

Companies with Transnational Overlap

Being a company in Europe is no handicap, quite the opposite. The .eu domain aids this, because the condition for its registration is to be based in the EU. With it, customers from all over the world will understand you at a glance.

In addition, you will avoid the prejudices about whether you only supply locally that you would experience with a national domain. You avoid being judged by customers right away, and them perhaps misjudging which part of the planet you are from.

Personal presentations for those who do not want to be limited to the Czech Republic

We live in a time when people are building a personal brand on the Internet. The successful ones have their own websites, where they have their CV for example and sometimes they contribute a demonstration of their work. Not only headhunters who are looking for talented and skilful people for their clients can easily find them. It works well, we found a few colleagues for us in WEDOS 🙂

If you want to show that you are not afraid to work abroad, then choose the .eu domain.

Tourism and Accommodation

If you are targeting foreign clients to whom you want to offer an experience or accommodation, then the .eu domain is certainly an interesting choice, especially in combination with the name of the city or locality. Many official websites of cities, state organizations and authorities use the .eu domain, not only for communication with foreign tourists.

With the .eu domain, your customers will assume that you will have a presentation in at least English and that your staff will speak English. In addition, EURid invests a lot of money in promoting the .eu domain as high quality and secure.