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.eu Opens for Registration

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the euro-stops-here dept.

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?"

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  1. Three Phases by ackthpt · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "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,

    Heard all about this on the BBC. Three phases, actually.

    For two months from 7 December, only registered trademarks, public bodies, company names and some other rights holders can apply.

    A second phase will begin on 2 February, when companies with other rights such as unregistered trademarks, trade names or company names can begin to apply.

    Registration will open to all starting from April.

    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?"

    The load of indifference? The big question remains whether it will see large acceptance like .com <sarcasm> As you can see all the .us addresses (where I work actually uses one) were widely adopted instead of .com </sarcasm> Most likely everyone who already has a .com, .de, .uk, .fr, .ch, .es, etc. tld will just be covering themselves and redirect to their existing site and have to pick these up to fend off another opportunity for cyber-squatting. Smells almost like some kind of tax.

    Personally, wonder if I could get n.eu :)

    In other news, 'PodCast' in the New Oxford American Dictionary.

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  2. Are they going to give back .de, .uk, .fr, etc? by karl.auerbach · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

    Otherwise the US, Canada, and other countries that are formed using a model with overall sovreignty split between an overall federal government and several component states, should obtain top level domains for the individual states, such as .cal for California.

    At the recent ICANN meeting in Vancouver there were demands for names such as .berlin and .nyc (New York City). And ICANN has granted a top level domain for speakers of the Catalonian language. (Why not ones for English, Mandarin, or Boontling?)