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.Eu TLD to be Created?
ksw writes: "CNET has this story about the proposed .eu tld. So all we need now is the EU-Parliament's blessing and we're on our way. I wonder what their take on squatting will be......." I'm not quite sure how this is going to play out ... The European government has no particular authority to simply order that new domains be created in the root servers.
Why is the EU getting a TLD while all of the countries within the EU have TLDs? Will all of the country domains, like .de, .it, etc, be subsumed under the super-entity, so one has *.it.eu? Or, as is more likely the plan, will a business in Italy have to choose between .it and .eu (while still probably going with .com).
Poor planning, IMHO.
Yours truly,
Mr. X
...unintended consequences...
From the commission report page 7:
On September 25, 2000 ICANN issued a resolution providing that alpha-2 (&) codes are delegable as ccTLDs only in cases where the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency, on its exceptional reservation list, has issued a reservation of the code that covers any application of ISO 3166-1 that needs a coded representation in the name of the country, territory or area involved . Such conditions are met by the EU code which is therefore delegable to the Community.
In other words, the delegation from the commission offered the ICANN some money, and the ICANN quickly added an exception to the ISO 3166 rule.
the AC
Hemos is like...sci-fi fans;he thinks technology is cool, but he hasn't bothered to understand the science it's based on
Here is some more information on this. It comes out of the Information Society Promotions Office, just one of the many ways us Europeans tax euros are wasted^Wspent.
.eu TLD, put in a bid, and apply pressure to the ICANN as needed to ensure success. This was part of a buzzword driven initiative called eEurope, which sprang into being just when the e-bubble burst last year.
[as a brief digression, fear and loathing of the dreaded DG-13, errr... ISPO, is directly proportional to the closeness to the commission. Americans have very little to fear, but I live no more than 40Kms from them, and they equal micro~1.oft for my disdain. Think "living in the shadow of the land of Mordor"]
Last year, the ISPO put out a CFP to the big-5 usual suspects, (i.e. PWC, E&Y, D&TT, AA, KPMG) about creating a new TLD, back when ICANN was asking for new TLD proposals. But the RFP was, as the norm, heavily stacked to be given to whoever bought the last round of beers. [/rant]
The proposal called for a consultant group to approach ICANN, IANA, IETF and any who might influence the decision, on how to create a
Moving with great haste, for the commission, just one year after the idea was proposed, a report (sorry, PDF) was given to the commission, and now they are going ahead with the creation of a registry to administer the new TLD. A longer, more detailed report was submitted at the beginning of this year.
It is interesting to note they ignored calls for the registry to be run as a business (as NSI) and they want to make it "a not-for-profit organisation operated in the public interest."
the AC
Hemos is like...sci-fi fans;he thinks technology is cool, but he hasn't bothered to understand the science it's based on
IANA has stated a number of times that it is not in the business of deciding what is or is not a country. Instead, they use the ISO 3166 standard to decide when they create new ccTLDs.
.eu would be created as a ccTLD would be if the UN added the EU to its list of "standard country codes".
.eu ccTLD any time soon? No.
Reading the rules for adding a name to the ISO-3166 standard you'll see that the only way that
Is the UN likely to recognize the EU as a nation any time soon? No. Is there likely to be a
Tarsnap: Online backups for the truly paranoid
beija.eu == kiss.me ;-P
sou.eu == its.me
sefud.eu == yourefuck.ed -- all right, not the same thing but what the hell.