.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?"

Comments

Re:Will the EU country codes be moved into it?

[VJ42]

What would the point be? turning www.bbc.co.uk into www.bbc.co.uk.eu (for example) would serve no point execpt to help people with geography.

And the censored list...

[matt4077]

There is a list at http://www.eu-registry.info/downloads/1-blocked.tx t with all the "reserved" domains. Interestingly, especially german, spanish and greek terms to be on the list (mostly political stuff like hitler.eu). Seems like some countries care less for freedom of speech than others.

Re:ramsex.eu reserved

[s20451]

Based on the context of the list, I think it's Swedish. "Ram" means "frame" in Swedish, and "sex" is the number six.

I love Swedish. Another fun word in Swedish is "fart", which means "speed" (as in "fartlek", which is an exercise for runners). So in Sweden, schoolchildren can legitimately go around saying "fart" and "sex" all day.

Re:Yahoo in Russian

[Anonymous Coward]

Some more Russian profanity, from exotic lands far away: http://www.iana.org/cctld/cctld-whois.htm

nafi.ga (Gabon)
su.ca (Canada)
zho.pa (Panama)
h.er (Eritrea)
dur.ac (Ascension Island)
pedof.il (Israel)
mnepoe.by (Belorussia)
pidar.as (American Samoa)
eb.an (Netherlands Antilles)
idina.hu (Hungary)

Not Russian, but still fun:
*.bj (Benin) No comments necessary.
ba.ca (Canada) Just for you, anime fanboys :-)

This is by no means exhaustive, of course.

list of words and phrases ending in EU !!

[passingNotes.com]

here's a list of words/phrases ending in EU that i generated using some nifty software - all are words that end with "eu" so that you can grab cool names if you're so inclined (list is enormous, this one is just a tiny little bit of it)... cordonbleu (eg www.cordonbl.eu) and so on down this list... bleu lieu Bikenibeu (a city) ...actually, you know, just go do this yourself (went to cut and paste by category and realized that there are thousands of european words ending in EU - hence the great promise for the domain!!!!! ...or if you want a custom list, then just ping me and i'll actually take the time to cut and paste them all for you...dave (at) gmail.pro