A closer look at the six most populated EU countries shows that in Germany, Poland and France most registrants use a national registrar, a smaller fraction use a registrar from another EU country while the use of registrars from outside the EU is quite limited.
Registrants in Italy also mainly use national registrars, but their second choice is a registrar from outside the EU. Spanish registrants seem to be open to all alternatives with national, other EU registrars and registrars from outside the EU each having a significant market share. The United Kingdom stands out as being the only large country where non-EU registrars dominate.
Most registrars in the EU have the bulk of their business coming from their home country. In fact, registrations originating from a registrar’s own country account for more than 90% of all registrations in 15 of the 27 EU countries. Registrars in Cyprus, Denmark and Luxembourg were the ones with the largest share of their business originating from outside the country.
The highest number of cross-border registrations are seen with registrants from the UK using registrars based in Canada, the US and Germany. Other large cross-border registration numbers are seen in the cases of registrants from the Netherlands and France using German registrars and German registrants using Danish registrars.
Reciprocal cross-border registrant-registrar pairings (meaning that many registrants from “country x” chose a registrar in “country y” and vice-versa) were noted in the cases of Belgium/France, Germany/Austria, Germany/Denmark, The Netherlands/Belgium, Germany/United Kingdom, Germany/France and Denmark/Sweden.
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