Web hosting provider Host Color Europe adds .EU domain registration as a free add-on for two of its web hosting plans - Advanced and Business.

The promotional campaign for .EU domain will start at the same time as EURid's ".Eu Awareness Campaign" but will be extended until the end of September 2007.

"Recent surveys showed that almost 2.465,000 .EU names have been registered after the domain's sunrise period announced by the European registry last year", says Host Color Marketing Director Alexander Avramov. "Although the number of the new .EU domains rises month by month, the European businesses are still not active enough on promoting dot-EU and the websites based on the European name" adds Mr. Avramov.

According to the surveys 18% of the Europeans have their own domain name and only 2 percent of those names are under .EU extension.

"Host Color values its presence on any web hosting market around the world but supporting process of building the .EU identity is more than business for our company. It is something we appreciate very much" say the Host Color's executive.

The .EU awareness is still poor among the residents of European Union. Only 66 percent of the Internet users know that the .EU domain exists and that they are eligible to register their own. Only 30% of the Europeans who already have their .EU domains are using it to do business.

Host Color LLC (http://www.hostcolor.com) is a U.S. web hosting company incorporated in Delaware. It hosts its customers web sites is data centers in South Bend, Indiana and Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Company offers discounts to academics and non-governmental organizations. It provides shared hosting services in Europe through Host Color Europe (http://www.hostcolor.eu) web site and Managed Servers through its new web site Host Color Servers (http://www.hostcolorservers.com).