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.eu Domains to Go on Sale in a Month

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the domain-squatters-of-the-old-west dept.

conJunk writes "The BBC is running an article about the start of .eu TLD sales. From the article: 'The .eu domain was launched in December and opens to the public in four weeks. Trademark holders have had a 'sunrise period' since December to register their own trademarks... and all EU institutions will begin using the .eu domain in their web addresses from April next year.' Winners and Losers? Volkswagen scooped Ralph-Lauren for polo.eu by three and a half minutes." Update: 03/10 15:32 GMT by Z : Volvo != Volkswagen.

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  1. Dibs on bl by gEvil+(beta) · · Score: 5, Funny

    I should have sacre.bl.eu up shortly. Other subdomains will be available for low, low rates. Surprisingly, EURid says that it's actually still available...

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  2. Re:But what domain will the EU use? by bitt3n · · Score: 5, Funny

    I expect all traffic from the US government will be forwarded to screw.eu

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  3. Re:organisation? by redalien · · Score: 5, Informative

    It is pretty damn simple, some organisations decided to sell third level domains, some second level. This allows the same name to be used in different contexts. The .uk options that I know of are:

    .co.uk COmmercial .org.uk ORGanisation .me.uk Personal site (clever name, eh?) .plc.uk Public Limited Company .ltd.uk LimiTeD liability Company .mod.uk Ministry Of Defense (Includes all armed forces) .police.uk Police, obviously .gov.uk Government .ac.uk ACademic institutions .sch.uk SCHool (this one is broken down more to schoolname.localeducationauthority.sch.uk, so my secondary school was barrbeacon.walsall.sch.uk) .nhs.uk National Health Service Why shouldn't there be a logical distinction between the hospitals in Birmingham and the government in Birmingham? It just makes sense to me, you wouldn't want birmingham-council.uk, birmingham-nhs.uk, as you wouldn't have a restrictive pattern to ensure uniformity. I once surprised somebody by going to a police website without googling...

    "How did you know the URL?"
    "Err.. it's the name of the force, followed by .police.uk..."