Polish companies lose out in registration of .eu domains

Media concern Agora is fourth in the line for Internet domain agora.eu and although the registrator of the domains has not made the decision yet, it seems that the address will eventually be granted to the Estonian company Oma Varahalduse. From among 295,000 applications submitted to EURid, an organization appointed by the European Commission to manage the ".eu" domains, only 1.1% came from Poland. Agora is not the only Polish company that was late with its application for the relevant domain. For example, LOT Polish airlines submitted the application for the lot.eu domain on the first day it was possible, but did it at 12.06 pm, while a German citizen Alexander Schubert from Berlin did so at 11.33 am and he is the first in line to receive the address. PKN Orlen was also preceded by Dutch Depmarc which applied for orlen.eu. The recovery of an address reserved by someone else may be very costly or could even be impossible. (Puls Biznesu, pp. 1, 4) E.B.