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.eu Domain Names Top 2.5M in Year One
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."
You didnt expect them to sit there and let some cybersquatter take it, or worse a rival company did you?
Yet Another (pointless) .tld is launched.
.eu domain - companies are registeriung the domains, but they are just using their normal internationally-known existing ones.
.eu tld is just a money-raising exercise, nothing more.
.eu addresses in use...
Of COURSE major companies are going to buy their domain name - they can't risk cybersquatters, rivals or people with a grudge buying instead, so they have no option.
However, I can tell you that as someone who lives in an EU country, I have never ever seen anyone publish their
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BTW, I am willing to bet that a lot of the "good" names have already been snapped up by cybersquatters already. Which means the vast majority of domains are either squatters or companies keen to avoid being squatted. Which leaves VERY few "legitimate"
People should not be afraid of their governments - Governments should be afraid of their people.
Or you could just use the language indicated in the web browser settings. In this case using a country specific TLD doesn't really help in many cases - you'll still have the same problem in countries like Belgium, Switzerland, Finland, Spain, Ireland, the Netherlands, etc, where more than one language is spoken...
I have a really elegant proof for Fermat's last theorem. If this sig was only a bit longer...
The people having the least problem feeling themselves as a "part of the EU" are those EU citizens that do not live in their own country. For most of my life, I have been a foreigner in the country I live and I had no problem identifying myself as a "European Citizen". Heck, I thought that it would be a good idea to drop all nationalities and call ourselves "Europeans". I still think that (but it will never happen), and now I have adopted the nationality of my host country.
I still am not a real national in the eyes of the people living here. My accent gives me away every single time. Heck, even parts of my in-laws family call me the "Dutch Guy" (albeit jokingly), even though I have never been Dutch. Sure, I speak Dutch, but I am not from the Netherlands.
Nationality is a tricky thing and personally, I feel as if I have none. European would be closest, even if my passport doesn't say so.
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