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.eu Domain Names Top 2.5M in Year One

Posted by samzenpus on from the going-like-hotcakes dept.

VictoryDone writes "More than 2.5 million ".eu" Internet addresses have been registered since the European domain name launched just over a year ago. Many worldwide brands — from companies like Air France and Versace to environmental campaigners Greenpeace — now have a ".eu" address, officials said, singling out non-European brands Sony Corp. and Toyota Motor Corp.'s Lexus for also choosing an ".eu" address in ad campaigns."

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  1. Registration restrictions by sakdoctor · · Score: 4, Informative

    "The registrants must be located within the EU"

    Are regulations ever enforced? A little off topic maybe, but yesterday I almost registered a .us domain name.
    As I was about to check out I got a different screen to normal. It said that I had to be a business with links to the US,
    it also mentioned "all your personal information are belong to (.)us".

    Researching it futher I found a right shocker. Swedish (and some others I don't remember) domains often have to pay to change DNS servers. Your rights for a particular domain differ quite a bit with each tld.

  2. Re:What's the point by meringuoid · · Score: 3, Informative
    Without wishing to get involved in flame wars about whether the EU is a good thing or not, for the sort of on-line shopping I do membership of the EU is not really relevant.

    If you buy CDs it is. The CD-WOW lawsuit established that they can't ship cheap CDs and DVDs here from Hong Kong like they used to, but they can from EU nations. The CD sold by the record cartel in Slovenia is identical to the one sold in England, but a whole lot cheaper.

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    Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building.
  3. Re:Pointless by mccalli · · Score: 3, Informative

    country-based tld's are only there because of nationalism, every country wanted one...

    Nope. Take a look at, say, Apple. Here's http://apple.com - familiar, right? Here, on the other hand, is http://apple.co.uk - rather different. Within the UK, Apple Design have the rights to use it. Within the US, it's Apple Inc. that have the right. This isn't a bug or nationalism, it's a feature. I like location-specific URLs. I don't use google.com for example, I use google.co.uk.

    Cheers,
    Ian