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.