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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. Haha, not now! by Xarius · · Score: 3, Funny

    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! ;)

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    1. Re:Haha, not now! by bhtooefr · · Score: 2, Funny

      I can resolve it, and I'm in the US.

  3. my domain by mrtroy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hopefully I can get my ideal domain...

    fuck.eu

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    1. Re:my domain by paranode · · Score: 4, Funny

      New French Government site - sacrebl.eu

    2. Re:my domain by dbolger · · Score: 5, Funny

      I was gonna make that joke, but then I thought, "nah, it will just cost me karma", and I didn't. So tohellwith.eu ;P

    3. Re:my domain by amliebsch · · Score: 5, Funny

      In Soviet Russia, domain.registers.eu

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  4. Who are... by NotoriousGOD · · Score: 3, Funny

    the people with "prior" rights? I bet it's the French. It's always the damn French.

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    1. Re:Who are... by Tony+Hoyle · · Score: 2, Funny

      Nah it's the germans. They've covered their domains with beach towels before anyone else got a look in.

  5. ramsex.eu reserved by cwis42 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

    1. Re:ramsex.eu reserved by spot35 · · Score: 4, Funny

      In other news, sheep were seen following a web admin who had recently registered bar-ram.eu

    2. Re:ramsex.eu reserved by s20451 · · Score: 3, Interesting

      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.

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    3. Re:ramsex.eu reserved by Jugalator · · Score: 2, Funny

      So in Sweden, schoolchildren can legitimately go around saying "fart" and "sex" all day.

      Well, I pity the countries where this is illegal.
      In which civilized country can't you even utter these words legitimately?

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  6. appropriate. by grub · · Score: 3, Funny


    Say it aloud "goatce.eu"

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  7. a Yahoo! report on the EU domains by yjs · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yahoo has a news article on the topic: Link

  8. stupid registration restrictions. by cliffy2000 · · Score: 3, Funny

    i really wanted ypiresiasintonismoukatapolemisisapatiz.eu, you know. (i wish i was kidding!)

  9. EU-US by paranode · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

  10. Who thinks... by saskboy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Who thinks that Taco will forget to register slashdot.eu?

    Then the GNAA or some old people in Korea will use it instead.

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    1. Re:Who thinks... by Jugalator · · Score: 2, Informative

      The TLD is restricted for EU members only.

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  11. Yahoo in Russian by Palal · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yahoo.eu reads like a profanity in Russian... I wonder if they'll register.

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  12. Already almost 100.000 by houghi · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.

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    1. Re:Already almost 100.000 by Odin's+Raven · · Score: 4, Funny
      sex.eu was asked for 204 times.

      In domains as in life - often requested, rarely granted.

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  13. Domain name claims by me by 192939495969798999 · · Score: 4, Funny

    1. aeiou.eu
    2. p.eu
    3. howar.eu
    4. ach.eu
    5. InSovietRussiaWeGoogl.eu
    6. AndNowImSpent.eu

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  14. Loaded? by trollable · · Score: 3, Informative

    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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  15. Re:.eu does not matter by Anonymous+Luddite · · Score: 3, Funny

    >> co.ck mean nothing

    surely you meant co. u k?

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  16. Re:Will the EU country codes be moved into it? by VJ42 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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.

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  17. And the censored list... by matt4077 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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.

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    1. Re:And the censored list... by KDR_11k · · Score: 2, Informative

      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.

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  18. .eu doesn't stand for European ... by DrSkwid · · Score: 4, Informative

    it stands for European Union

    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_doma ins/

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  19. 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?)

    1. Re:Are they going to give back .de, .uk, .fr, etc? by julesh · · Score: 3, Informative

      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.

      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.

      The .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.

      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.

    2. Re:Are they going to give back .de, .uk, .fr, etc? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      Since the European Union (.eu) is a federation of states

      It is not. It is a is an intergovernmental and supranational union of states.

  20. list of words and phrases ending in EU !! by passingNotes.com · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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

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