The registry for the .eu top level domain (TLD) received 390,000 applications in the first 100 minutes after registration was opened to all residents of the European Union, EU Information Society and Media Commissioner Viviane Reding said Friday.“At this speed, .eu will become a real competitor to .com,” Reding said in a news conference Friday.The .eu registry operator, Eurid vzw, has approved a number of registrars around the European Union to handle applications. SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER From our editors straight to your inbox Get started by entering your email address below. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe Reding said the price of a .eu TLD will vary, and she advised European residents to shop around for the best deal. “I have seen a price of €15, but a spokesman for a colleague of mine found a price of €12 by a registrar based in the Czech Republic,” she said. “The system relies on open competition between registrars.”During the so-called sunrise period, which began on Dec. 7, companies and trademark owners made 340,000 applications to register domain names, and just under 25,000 have been granted, Reding said. -Paul Meller, IDG News ServiceCheck out our CIO News Alerts and Tech Informer pages for more updated news coverage. Related content feature SAP prepares to add Joule generative AI copilot across its apps Like Salesforce and ServiceNow, SAP is promising to embed an AI copilot throughout its applications, but planning a more gradual roll-out than some competitors. By Peter Sayer Sep 26, 2023 5 mins CIO SAP Generative AI brandpost Mitigating mayhem in a complex hybrid IT world How to build a resilient enterprise in the face of unexpected (and expected) IT mayhem moments. By Greg Lotko, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Mainframe Software Division Sep 26, 2023 7 mins Hybrid Cloud brandpost How AI can deliver eye-opening insights for IT AIOps can leverage machine learning to provide a robust set of proactive predictive analytics capabilities for a wide range of infrastructure. By Carol Wilder, VP of Product Management, Dell Technologies Sep 26, 2023 6 mins Artificial Intelligence brandpost 5 steps we can take to address the cyber skills shortage The cyber skills shortage is not going away anytime soon, despite the progress we are making as an industry to attract new talent. Per the latest “ISC2 Cybersecurity Workforce Study,” we added more than 460,000 warm bodies over the past y By Leonard Kleinman Sep 26, 2023 7 mins IT Leadership Podcasts Videos Resources Events SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER From our editors straight to your inbox Get started by entering your email address below. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe