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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.