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.eu Opens for Registration

Posted by CowboyNeal on Wed Dec 07, 2005 12:50 PM
from the euro-stops-here dept.
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jla writes "Today, the .eu top-level domain opens for registration. Handled by EURid, the launch will be divided into two phases: A two-month 'Sunrise,' during which only the holders of certain 'prior rights' will be allowed to register their names, and the following 'Land Rush,' where registrations will be open to everyone. So finally the long-awaited pan-European TLD launches. The big question now is, will EURid's systems be able to handle the load?"
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  • Three Phases (Score:5, Insightful)

    by ackthpt (218170) * on Wednesday December 07 2005, @12:51PM (#14203600) Homepage Journal

    "Today, the .eu top-level domain opens for registration. Handled by EURid, the launch will be divided into two phases: A two-month 'Sunrise,' during which only the holders of certain 'prior rights' will be allowed to register their names,

    Heard all about this on the BBC [bbc.co.uk]. Three phases, actually.

    For two months from 7 December, only registered trademarks, public bodies, company names and some other rights holders can apply.

    A second phase will begin on 2 February, when companies with other rights such as unregistered trademarks, trade names or company names can begin to apply.

    Registration will open to all starting from April.

    and the following 'Land Rush,' where registrations will be open to everyone. So finally the long-awaited pan-European TLD launches. The big question now is, will EURid's systems be able to handle the load?"

    The load of indifference? The big question remains whether it will see large acceptance like .com <sarcasm> As you can see all the .us addresses (where I work actually uses one) were widely adopted instead of .com </sarcasm> Most likely everyone who already has a .com, .de, .uk, .fr, .ch, .es, etc. tld will just be covering themselves and redirect to their existing site and have to pick these up to fend off another opportunity for cyber-squatting. Smells almost like some kind of tax.

    Personally, wonder if I could get n.eu :)

    In other news, 'PodCast' in the New Oxford American Dictionary. [bbc.co.uk]

    • Most likely everyone who already has a .com, .de, .uk, .fr, .ch, .es, etc. tld will just be covering themselves and redirect to their existing site and have to pick these up to fend off another opportunity for cyber-squatting. Smells almost like some kind of tax.

      Which is why the whole current scheme of having only a small number of designated top level domains accomplishes nothing. .com doesn't really mean "company," it doesn't mean anything. They should just open it up so we can visit http://slashdot/ [slashdot]

    • "...only registered trademarks, public bodies, companies....can apply..."

      So...why is it companies and corporations get first shot at them?? What makes them more important on the internet that Joe Blow? While I understand that the internet has become VERY important for commerce, I don't recall it being the majority of the reason it exists. Corporations shouldn't have first crack at anything on the net. It is a network of networks....any computer on it is basically a 'peer', and therefore, noone should be g

  • Haha, not now! (Score:4, Funny)

    by Xarius (691264) on Wednesday December 07 2005, @12:52PM (#14203613) Homepage
    The big question now is, will EURid's systems be able to handle the load?

    Truly this slashdotting will be a good test of that! ;)

  • my domain (Score:5, Funny)

    by mrtroy (640746) on Wednesday December 07 2005, @12:54PM (#14203621)
    Hopefully I can get my ideal domain...

    fuck.eu

  • Who are... (Score:3, Funny)

    by NotoriousGOD (936922) on Wednesday December 07 2005, @12:54PM (#14203630)
    the people with "prior" rights? I bet it's the French. It's always the damn French.
  • Is what they'll say to each other when all the sites fail

  • ramsex.eu reserved (Score:5, Funny)

    by cwis42 (563232) <cwis@NOSpAM.free.fr> on Wednesday December 07 2005, @01:01PM (#14203690)
    Not sure what this means... But ramsex.eu has been officially [eurid.eu] reserved [eurid.eu] by the European Commission for its own use or for use by the Community institutions and bodies.

  • appropriate. (Score:3, Funny)

    by grub (11606) <slashdot@grub.net> on Wednesday December 07 2005, @01:02PM (#14203699) Homepage Journal

    Say it aloud "goatce.eu"

  • a Yahoo! report on the EU domains (Score:4, Informative)

    by yjs (936897) on Wednesday December 07 2005, @01:06PM (#14203740)
    Yahoo has a news article on the topic: Link [cob-web.org]

  • stupid registration restrictions. (Score:4, Funny)

    by cliffy2000 (185461) on Wednesday December 07 2005, @01:14PM (#14203803) Journal
    i really wanted ypiresiasintonismoukatapolemisisapatiz.eu, you know. (i wish i was kidding!)

  • Who thinks... (Score:5, Funny)

    by saskboy (600063) on Wednesday December 07 2005, @01:23PM (#14203873) Homepage Journal
    Who thinks that Taco will forget to register slashdot.eu?

    Then the GNAA or some old people in Korea will use it instead.

  • Yahoo in Russian (Score:4, Funny)

    by Palal (836081) on Wednesday December 07 2005, @01:24PM (#14203878) Homepage
    Yahoo.eu reads like a profanity in Russian... I wonder if they'll register.

  • Already almost 100.000 (Score:4, Informative)

    by houghi (78078) on Wednesday December 07 2005, @01:26PM (#14203905) Homepage
    Dutch/Belgian [standaard.be] article.
    98.7198 registerd of wich 77.684 (Only one request)
    The firsts where tickets.eu, job.eu, and hotels.eu.
    sex.eu was asked for 204 times.

    So expect to get mail for tickets to have sex in European hotels while looking for a new job.
  • 1. aeiou.eu
    2. p.eu
    3. howar.eu
    4. ach.eu
    5. InSovietRussiaWeGoogl.eu
    6. AndNowImSpent.eu

  • Loaded? (Score:4, Informative)

    by trollable (928694) on Wednesday December 07 2005, @01:29PM (#14203944) Homepage
    The big question now is, will EURid's systems be able to handle the load?

    According to my provider, there was some problems during the first ten minutes (connections were limited to one every ten seconds). No more problem now but anyway the rule stands: one connection per registar and one domain per second.

  • And the censored list... (Score:3, Interesting)

    by matt4077 (581118) on Wednesday December 07 2005, @01:45PM (#14204061) Homepage
    There is a list at http://www.eu-registry.info/downloads/1-blocked.tx t [eu-registry.info] with all the "reserved" domains. Interestingly, especially german, spanish and greek terms to be on the list (mostly political stuff like hitler.eu). Seems like some countries care less for freedom of speech than others.
    • Germany doesn't care about freedom of speech at all when it's used to "attack the free democratic foundation of the country", which can lead to your right to free speech being revoked.

  • .eu doesn't stand for European ... (Score:5, Informative)

    by DrSkwid (118965) on Wednesday December 07 2005, @02:09PM (#14204225) Homepage Journal
    it stands for European Union

    The Swiss won't be able to register for the ".eu" web domain when the European Union (EU) begins accepting registrations for internet addresses next month, even though the country is in the heart of Europe. EU regulations prohibit non-members from registering. Only people resident within the EU or undertakings having their registered office, central administration or principal place of business within the European Community can apply.

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/21/swiss_doma ins/ [theregister.co.uk]

  • We of course have the "First Post" lamewats here on Slashdot, but is there an equivalent for addresses under new TLDs? Do goofs come out clamouring to file quick registrations so they can try to claim they got the first one?

    "firstpost.eu" still seems to be available...

  • % grep -iE 'eu$' words

    • adieu
    • alpieu
    • archboutefeu
    • asideu
    • eheu
    • eu
    • farleu
    • feu
    • leu
    • lieu
    • Lleu
    • masdeu
    • milieu
    • purlieu
    • subfeu
    • tereu
    • zakkeu

  • Are they going to give back .de, .uk, .fr, etc? (Score:5, Insightful)

    by karl.auerbach (157250) on Wednesday December 07 2005, @02:50PM (#14204541) Homepage
    Since the European Union (.eu) is a federation of states not all that different in the gross sense from the United States (.us), consistency argumes that the members of .eu should relinquish their individual top level ccTLDs, such as .uk, and .de.

    Otherwise the US, Canada, and other countries that are formed using a model with overall sovreignty split between an overall federal government and several component states, should obtain top level domains for the individual states, such as .cal for California.

    At the recent ICANN meeting in Vancouver there were demands for names such as .berlin and .nyc (New York City). And ICANN has granted a top level domain for speakers of the Catalonian language. (Why not ones for English, Mandarin, or Boontling?)
    • TLD should be opened to registration in a manner similar to how .eu is now opened.

    • Re:Are they going to give back .de, .uk, .fr, etc? (Score:4, Informative)

      by julesh (229690) on Wednesday December 07 2005, @03:31PM (#14204855)
      Since the European Union (.eu) is a federation of states not all that different in the gross sense from the United States (.us), consistency argumes that the members of .eu should relinquish their individual top level ccTLDs, such as .uk, and .de.

      Actually, it is quite different in many ways from the US. The EU doesn't have a consistent foreign policy or central taxation, no consistent internal criminal legal framework (except for a very few special cases, all European law deals with economic matters -- the Convention on Human Rights is a notable exception to this). There is no eu-wide system of education, telecommunications or postal service. We have no equivalents to the FBI, CIA or NSA, nor indeed many of the other US national agencies. There are multiple currencies in use within the borders of the EU.

      The .eu domain is somewhat perverted, if you ask me. 'eu.int' has sufficed to date, and I see no reason it wouldn't have continued to do so. But the EU parliament wanted .eu, so they got it.

      And ICANN has granted a top level domain for speakers of the Catalonian language. (Why not ones for English, Mandarin, or Boontling?)

      Catalunya is a semi-autonomous state with its own government independent of the Spanish government. There's an argument that it almost qualifies as a country, therefore a country code may be useful for it.

      However, the same argument would, I believe, also apply to Scotland and Wales, and probably to US states.
  • Oh crap! You mean we are running out of .com addresses? Maybe we should just add a couple more address extensions like IP6. Like:

    www.slashdot.com.us.technology

    That sure will keep cybersquatters busy guessing.

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