.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.

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more info than slashdot deserves...

[anticypher]

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.

[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 .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.

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