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.eu Opens for Registration
jla writes "Today, the .eu top-level domain opens for registration. Handled by EURid, the launch will be divided into two phases: A two-month 'Sunrise,' during which only the holders of certain 'prior rights' will be allowed to register their names, and the following 'Land Rush,' where registrations will be open to everyone.
So finally the long-awaited pan-European TLD launches. The big question now is, will EURid's systems be able to handle the load?"
Yahoo has a news article on the topic: Link
Our dream (and a running joke of the last 10 years) - yahoo.eu will finally become a reality :) Can't wait to use that domain.
Yahoo.eu dorogaja redakcija. (For those that do not read russian - don't worry, we'll keep this a good clean fun).
Dutch/Belgian article.
98.7198 registerd of wich 77.684 (Only one request)
The firsts where tickets.eu, job.eu, and hotels.eu.
sex.eu was asked for 204 times.
So expect to get mail for tickets to have sex in European hotels while looking for a new job.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
The big question now is, will EURid's systems be able to handle the load?
According to my provider, there was some problems during the first ten minutes (connections were limited to one every ten seconds). No more problem now but anyway the rule stands: one connection per registar and one domain per second.
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Germany doesn't care about freedom of speech at all when it's used to "attack the free democratic foundation of the country", which can lead to your right to free speech being revoked.
Justice is the sheep getting arrested while an impartial judge declares the vote void.
it stands for European Union
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The Swiss won't be able to register for the ".eu" web domain when the European Union (EU) begins accepting registrations for internet addresses next month, even though the country is in the heart of Europe. EU regulations prohibit non-members from registering. Only people resident within the EU or undertakings having their registered office, central administration or principal place of business within the European Community can apply.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/21/swiss_dom
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The TLD is restricted for EU members only.
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Except the EU is an Intranational organisation, not a Federation. Many of us would like it to be a Federation, but it isn't.
Since the European Union (.eu) is a federation of states not all that different in the gross sense from the United States (.us), consistency argumes that the members of .eu should relinquish their individual top level ccTLDs, such as .uk, and .de.
.eu domain is somewhat perverted, if you ask me. 'eu.int' has sufficed to date, and I see no reason it wouldn't have continued to do so. But the EU parliament wanted .eu, so they got it.
Actually, it is quite different in many ways from the US. The EU doesn't have a consistent foreign policy or central taxation, no consistent internal criminal legal framework (except for a very few special cases, all European law deals with economic matters -- the Convention on Human Rights is a notable exception to this). There is no eu-wide system of education, telecommunications or postal service. We have no equivalents to the FBI, CIA or NSA, nor indeed many of the other US national agencies. There are multiple currencies in use within the borders of the EU.
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And ICANN has granted a top level domain for speakers of the Catalonian language. (Why not ones for English, Mandarin, or Boontling?)
Catalunya is a semi-autonomous state with its own government independent of the Spanish government. There's an argument that it almost qualifies as a country, therefore a country code may be useful for it.
However, the same argument would, I believe, also apply to Scotland and Wales, and probably to US states.
Since the European Union (.eu) is a federation of states
It is not. It is a is an intergovernmental and supranational union of states.
But looking at the list: hitler.eu isn't on the black list. In fact, those are the only two instances of "hitler" on the list.