Will be responsible for the helpdesk support offered to customers; plans to add offices in Czech Republic and Italy.

EURid, a Brussels based registry for .eu domain names recently announced that it has opened a regional office in Stockholm, Sweden to support Northern Europe.

As a next step, offices are also planned for the Czech Republic and Italy. The Stockholm office and the future regional offices in Prague and Pisa will assume responsibility for the helpdesk support offered to registrars, domain name holders and the general public in their respective local languages. So far there are about 2.1 million registered domain names, making .eu the seventh largest top level domain in the world, claims the company. The Stockholm office will be managed by Patrik Lindén who has been with EURid since January. Patrik has previous experience with the Swedish Internet Infrastructure Foundation (IIS), the registry for the national Swedish Internet top level domain .se.

"We stated already in our proposal to the European Commission that we intended to establish a regional structure. I am now pleased to see that the Stockholm office is in place and that the other offices will follow soon. Stockholm, and Scandinavia in general, is a very IT mature region and ranks high in the number of registered .eu domain names so it was natural to place our Northern region office there," says Marc Van Wesemael, General Manager of EURid.