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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. Of course they got one by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You didnt expect them to sit there and let some cybersquatter take it, or worse a rival company did you?

  2. And how many people actually used it? by mwvdlee · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I live in the EU and can honestly say that I haven't tried typing a single .eu domain name yet, nor have I seen them in ads or links.

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  3. Re:This isn't much used. by JuanCarlosII · · Score: 5, Funny

    I live in France, and have since September. I interact with French people every day.
    ... I have since been accepted into the group and having studied them in their natural habitat they appear to have developed a rudimentary form of communication, an advanced social hierarchy, and a range of basic emotions that make them seem almost human.
  4. 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.

  5. Re:This isn't much used. by BadAnalogyGuy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Also, sacrebl.eu is still wide open.

    Unfortunately, some squatter has already grabbed pepelep.eu...

  6. Re: What else did you expect? by Adhemar · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The .eu tld is just a money-raising exercise, nothing more

    I know quite a number of individuals who have their own .eu domain, and prefer that over a domain with their country's TLD for political reasons: because they do not identify themselves too proudly as a citizen of their country.

    There are several peoples with some degree of autonomist and secessionist movements in Europe:

    • Flanders from Belgium
    • Brittany and Corsica from France
    • Basque and Catalonia from Spain (however the latter have already the .cat TLD)
    • and many others...