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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. 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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  3. 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

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

    Yahoo has a news article on the topic: Link

  5. 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.

  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. .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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  10. 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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  11. 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?)