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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?"
"Today, the
Heard all about this on the BBC. Three phases, actually.
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.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
The big question now is, will EURid's systems be able to handle the load?
;)
Truly this slashdotting will be a good test of that!
C17H21NO4
Hopefully I can get my ideal domain...
fuck.eu
[I can picture a world without war, without hate. I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it]
Think of ending every URL with valley-girl-speek "eeeyuuu!".
the people with "prior" rights? I bet it's the French. It's always the damn French.
Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.
Is what they'll say to each other when all the sites fail
Guy asked me for a quarter for a cup of coffee. So I bit him.
Not sure what this means... But ramsex.eu has been officially reserved by the European Commission for its own use or for use by the Community institutions and bodies.
Say it aloud "goatce.eu"
Trolling is a art,
Yahoo has a news article on the topic: Link
i really wanted ypiresiasintonismoukatapolemisisapatiz.eu, you know. (i wish i was kidding!)
US: I could help a bit. I could host it for a while.
EU: *gives distrusting look*
US: Host it for a while... a while... Share the load... the load...
EU: Get away!!
US: I don't want to keep it! I just want to help!
UN: See! See! He wants it for himself!
US: Shut up you! Go away! Get out of here!
EU: No, US. It's you.
Who thinks that Taco will forget to register slashdot.eu?
Then the GNAA or some old people in Korea will use it instead.
Saskboy's blog is good. 9 out of 10 dentists agree.
Yahoo.eu reads like a profanity in Russian... I wonder if they'll register.
-Palal
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.
1. aeiou.eu
2. p.eu
3. howar.eu
4. ach.eu
5. InSovietRussiaWeGoogl.eu
6. AndNowImSpent.eu
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Pornsters will take note that pee.eu can be used for both water sports and scat.
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.
Million Dollar Screenshot
>> co.ck mean nothing
surely you meant co. u k?
http://request-header.info
...it's not .edu
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.
If I have nothing to hide, you have no reason to search me
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.
Fleur de Sel
Um, don't most British people think Europe is on the other side of the English Channel?
None of them can see the clouds; The polished wings don't care.
It does matter to people who don't speak English.
Justice is the sheep getting arrested while an impartial judge declares the vote void.
But I thought Europe was all about having control of DNS for themselves. Oh wait... they don't mind control so long as it's European control. The obvious answer is that Hitler has been cloned and is using mind control rays to make Europe do his will. Thank god for good old American-made tin foil hats.
WHY DO THEY HATE AMERICA?
I pretend to know more than I really do by mooching off google and wikipedia.
I call dibs on rosesareredvioletsarebl.eu
This signature is a waste of 42 characters
1. aeiou.eu
2. p.eu
3. howar.eu
4. ach.eu
5. InSovietRussiaWeGoogl.eu
6. AndNowImSpent.eu
wh.eu
I want to drag this out as long as possible. Bring me my protractor.
.eu is supposed to be some form of ccTLD. It's like a french website on .us.
Justice is the sheep getting arrested while an impartial judge declares the vote void.
it stands for European Union
a ins/
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
There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter
Yahoo.eu reads like a profanity in Russian... I wonder if they'll register.
Yah.eu?
I want to drag this out as long as possible. Bring me my protractor.
We of course have the "First Post" lamewats here on Slashdot, but is there an equivalent for addresses under new TLDs? Do goofs come out clamouring to file quick registrations so they can try to claim they got the first one?
"firstpost.eu" still seems to be available...
% grep -iE 'eu$' words
org.slashdot.post.SignatureNotFoundException: ewg
.co.ck belongs to the Cook Islands. Probably the only unintentionally hilarious TLD. http://www.google.co.ck/
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.
.cal for California.
.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?)
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
At the recent ICANN meeting in Vancouver there were demands for names such as
Oh crap! You mean we are running out of .com addresses? Maybe we should just add a couple more address extensions like IP6. Like:
www.slashdot.com.us.technology
That sure will keep cybersquatters busy guessing.
wasa-matta-wit.eu
excuse.eu
thank.eu
Okay, I'm done...
Here a Sig There a Sig Everywhere a Sig Sig...
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
enjoy life, and Gmail.pro
oh come on, that whole show was comedy genius, anyone who's spent 5 minutes in the 'new media' scene or around these kinds of people will say its spot on. The attention to detail was brilliant - an entire model of phone built just to illustrate the character! (ok so its a prop but they even went as far as to create the little wasp animation). The cat with the scissors in its head just topped the whole thing off.
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Use my handy grep command on the dictionary
/usr/share/dict/words
$ grep 'eu$'
adieu
lieu
Mathieu
Hmmm, not alot here to work with. Well maybe next TLD.
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You can of course complain at the following website: http://www.bbc.complaints.p.o.box.1922.glasgow.g23 wt.co.uk/
why do the corporations get first choice on the domain names again?
We seldom regret saying too little but often regret saying too much.
The real mistake is trying to apply our notion of national identity and governance to other nations. Relegating all European nations to an .eu tld is an attack on sovereignty because it is an attack on the national identity of each nation in the European Union.
New York City would not be the same without Chinatown or Little Italy. Being from the Bronx, Queens, Manhattan, Brooklyn, or Staten Island mean different things, too. These identities are important distinctions in certain social contexts and so are .uk, .de, .fr, and the other tlds. Sometimes it is not always good to simplify things down to a single moniker (.eu) for convenience. People and nations have fought to the death over such things.
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.
.sco domain for Scotland.
.eng for England.
There's also going to be a
Definitely seems to be a cash cow - taking this to the natural progression, there will also have to be a
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..this was supposed to be for previous holders of registered trademarks. Who decided that some entrepenuer had a trademark on tickets, job, or hotels? Is this just some dirty politics, or is the mechanism to block regular users (until april) completely ineffective?
"And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the World"
1 John 4:14
Hmmm, they did over 40,000 business transactions in the first 15 minutes. I'd guess a little link from slashdot isn't going to bother them. The general press - worldwide - wrote about them today and their site was still up.
:) .
Well, it was a little slow when I looked, but I forgive them
From your link:
"In the long run I would like to see a three-letter code '.sco' which would give Scotland its own global address.
With respect, why should Scotland get it's own TLD? Because it's historically it's own culture and was conquered by the British? I'm not flaming -- but really, where the heck do we draw the line? Should every single American state get it's own TLD? American states arguably have as much (if not more?) autonomy then Scotland does. I'm sure some of my friends from the South would point out that the United States historically wasn't very "United". What's next? A .csa TLD? .nys for New York State?
Besides the nationalist argument, what argument do they have exactly? Am I the only one that thinks new TLDs (.xxx comes to mind) are only a tax imposed by ICANN and the registers on trademark holders and cybersquatters? They form a new TLD, every single decent domain is snatched up by trademark holders (AOL, IBM, Google, Yahoo all come to mind) or cybersquatters. How exactly is this helping the internet community? I get to spend more money to defend my trademark... great!
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
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.
At least officially, the domain is not for Catalonia entities, but for Catalan-language entities, either from Catalonia, Valencia, Balearic Islands, Andorra, French Catalonia or even Italian Alghero.
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Men with no respect for life must never be allowed to control the ultimate instruments of death.
GW Bu
Shows what you know: Australia is in Europe!
Look out!
So, of that long list of registrars I've never heard of, who's had good experiences and which of them support FLOSS or at least have solid freedom policies?
My God, it's Full of Source!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
With respect, why should Scotland get it's own TLD? Because it's historically it's own culture and was conquered by the British?
Uh, British is a term that encompasses everyone in the whole country (Wales, England, Scotland etc..). In terms of being conquered, it was the Scottish highland chiefs who sold out their land rights to English sheep farmers, and then moved down to London. Thus premeditating the Highland Clearances.
Scottish MP's like doing things to enhance Scottishness - it keeps the nationalists happy, especially since high-tech industries that are profitable usually end up relocated down South (eg. defense software).
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