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The EU Gets .eu

Posted by timothy on from the ewe-would-have-worked-too dept.

linugen writes "According to this European Union website, the .eu regulation has finally been accepted. The new ".eu" domain name will complement the existing family of country-code or national Top Level Domains in the EU as well as the "generic" Top Level Domains such as '.com', '.org' and '.info'. Individual users will be able to continue to use these existing domains, but will now have the additional option of a single, European Union domain name as well. Looks like something's finally happening."

26 comments

  1. Only one reaction in France by L.+VeGas · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sacrebl.eu !

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    1. Re:Only one reaction in France by HawkingMattress · · Score: 1

      nope, we just keep on eating frogs.

    2. Re:Only one reaction in France by bigsteve@dstc · · Score: 1
      They're more likely to say:
      "eu"? c'est vraiment mouille!

      ... or at least that's what an anglo might say if he was trying to make a bad french pun :-).

  2. news one year ago by yoshiaki · · Score: 1

    The source was written on 25/03/2002

  3. this would be good for rotten dot com by muzthe42nd · · Score: 1

    after all, they'd love www.rotten.ewwwwwww, sorry, that was crap.
    i shall go shoot myself

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  4. Don't you mean... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The Socalist EU gets .eu?

    1. Re:Don't you mean... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Did you know that some of the most socialist countries in Europe have a better quality of life than the US?

      see:
      http://www.kuro5hin.org/print/2003/2/6/112 55/80477

    2. Re:Don't you mean... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Did you know that some of the most socialist countries in Europe have a better quality of life than the US?

  5. Registering a new .eu domain by Strange+Ranger · · Score: 1

    ...will now have the additional option of a single, European Union domain name as well.

    "Those wishing to register must remit payment in Euros. You WILL learn to use them dammit! No exceptions!

    No not even francs."

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    1. Re:Registering a new .eu domain by linuxology · · Score: 1

      i think you mean pounds

    2. Re:Registering a new .eu domain by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      No, I meant francs. The Euro is for all of Europe and the French are notorious for isolationism and ethnocentric behavior.

      Explanation as analogy: France is to the EU as Quebec is to Canada.

      Thus the joke is that of all the countries in the EU, it will be the French guy standing there saying, "But of course you take francs!" Because being French makes him special.

  6. 2002 by chrisvdb · · Score: 1

    The decision to make a .eu domain was taken exactly a year ago, not today!

    By the way: the EC will make it's decision of the .eu operator public soon. Rumored is that it will be the Brussels based eurid.org.

    Cheers,
    Chris.

  7. Good for peeps? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I got .eu babe.

  8. Book those comedy domain names now! by Kragg · · Score: 1

    This doesn't really matter at all to anybody ever, except the jokers who go and register the funny domains as fast as possible. Losers.

    (By the way, $50 a shot for:
    www.icans.eu
    www.wouldntwannab.eu
    www.ph.e u
    www.nobodysgonnabuythiscrapexceptmayb.eu

    any takers?)

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    1. Re:Book those comedy domain names now! by Yokaze · · Score: 1

      No, I'd rather go for

      all-your-base-are-belong-to.us

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    2. Re:Book those comedy domain names now! by Kragg · · Score: 1

      www.allmybasearebelongto.eu?

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  9. A brave new continent for domain name squatting by babbage · · Score: 1
    % grep 'eu$' /usr/share/dict/words
    adieu
    alpieu
    archboutefeu
    asideu
    eheu
    eu
    farleu
    feu
    leu
    lieu
    Lleu
    masdeu
    milieu
    purlieu
    subfeu
    tereu
    zakkeu

    Not many of these really jump out at me as an English speaker, but a lot of them seem to be derived from French -- implying that Francophones could possibly have a lot of words with a "-eu" suffix.

    "Archboutefeu" is a cool sounding word. What does it mean?

    % dict archboutefeu
    No definitions found for "archboutefeu"

    Any French speakers able to translate that word, or any of these for that matter? The only "obvious" ones to me are 'adieu", "lieu", and "milieu" -- everything else is, well, Greek to me. :-)

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    1. Re:A brave new continent for domain name squatting by Lord+Sauron · · Score: 1

      Portuguese speakers can also have fun with fod.eu.

    2. Re:A brave new continent for domain name squatting by HawkingMattress · · Score: 1

      % dict archboutefeu No definitions found for "archboutefeu" Any French speakers able to translate that word ?
      I'm french, and i have no idea :) and it seems to only appears in strange lists of words in weird newsgroups like alt.revisionism, alt.flame.niggers alt.religion.scientology, or really strange pages :)

    3. Re:A brave new continent for domain name squatting by Anonynnous+Coward · · Score: 1

      Reminds me of my list of Latin words when .us came into being :).

    4. Re:A brave new continent for domain name squatting by babbage · · Score: 1
      Googling for Archboutefeu returns only 20 hits or so, nearly all of which seem to just be random copies of /usr/dict/words etc online. Weird.

      On a guess, I tried deleting "arch-" and got some more results, including:

      Boutefeu

      (Boute"feu) n. [F.; bouter to thrust, put + feu fire.] An incendiary; an inciter of quarrels. [Obs.]

      Animated by . . . John à Chamber, a very boutefeu, . . . they entered into open rebellion.
      Bacon.

      And another page suggests that "Boutefeu chinois" means "Chinese Fireball".

      So at a guess, boutefeu must mean an inflammatory person, and an archboutefeu must be the worst of all such people.

      A troll on a site like Slashdot.fr, in other words :-)

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  10. eh.. why is this in developers? by Miguel+de+Icaza · · Score: 1

    this story doesn't seem to belong here :^)

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  11. Heh...From the title... by Cutriss · · Score: 1

    The EU Gets YOU!

    Oh god...this could make for some very bad Soviet Russia jokes...

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  12. equality in hierarchy! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    So when do all the countries have to move down to .de.eu, .uk.eu, .fr.eu, etc., like all the states in the .US are?

    1. Re:equality in hierarchy! by tetrode · · Score: 1

      A US state is not a country.

      'nuff said.

  13. .fr by Daleks · · Score: 2, Funny

    I wonder if any Republicans want to change .fr to .freedom.