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.eu Opens for Registration
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CowboyNeal
on Wed Dec 07, 2005 12:50 PM
from the euro-stops-here dept.
from the euro-stops-here dept.
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)
(http://www.dragonswest.com/ | Last Journal: Monday November 05, @07:35PM)
"Today, the
Heard all about this on the BBC [bbc.co.uk]. Three phases, actually.
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]
Haha, not now! (Score:4, Funny)
(http://www.gentoo.org/)
Truly this slashdotting will be a good test of that!
EU-US (Score:5, Funny)
EU: *gives distrusting look*
US: Host it for a while... a while... Share the load... the load...
EU: Get away!!
US: I don't want to keep it! I just want to help!
UN: See! See! He wants it for himself!
US: Shut up you! Go away! Get out of here!
EU: No, US. It's you.
my domain (Score:5, Funny)
fuck.eu
Re:my domain (Score:5, Funny)
Re:my domain (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.esatclear.ie/~dbolger)
Re:my domain (Score:5, Funny)
(Last Journal: Friday February 10 2006, @02:51PM)
Good for icky stuff (Score:1, Funny)
Who are... (Score:3, Funny)
Heeeeeeey, Youuuuuuuu! (Score:2)
ramsex.eu reserved (Score:5, Funny)
Re:ramsex.eu reserved (Score:4, Funny)
Re:ramsex.eu reserved (Score:4, Interesting)
(Last Journal: Wednesday December 13 2006, @06:43PM)
I love Swedish. Another fun word in Swedish is "fart", which means "speed" (as in "fartlek", which is an exercise for runners). So in Sweden, schoolchildren can legitimately go around saying "fart" and "sex" all day.
appropriate. (Score:3, Funny)
(http://www.grub.net/blog/index.html | Last Journal: Wednesday June 27, @08:48AM)
Say it aloud "goatce.eu"
a Yahoo! report on the EU domains (Score:4, Informative)
stupid registration restrictions. (Score:4, Funny)
(Last Journal: Friday July 18 2003, @10:58PM)
Who thinks... (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.misscellania.com/ | Last Journal: Monday October 29, @11:47PM)
Then the GNAA or some old people in Korea will use it instead.
Yahoo in Russian (Score:4, Funny)
(http://www.palal.net/)
Russian speakers - rejoice (Score:1, Informative)
Yahoo.eu dorogaja redakcija. (For those that do not read russian - don't worry, we'll keep this a good clean fun).
Already almost 100.000 (Score:4, Informative)
(http://www.houghi.org/)
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.
Re:Already almost 100.000 (Score:5, Funny)
In domains as in life - often requested, rarely granted.
Domain name claims by me (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.devinmoore.com/ | Last Journal: Thursday May 24, @06:16AM)
2. p.eu
3. howar.eu
4. ach.eu
5. InSovietRussiaWeGoogl.eu
6. AndNowImSpent.eu
Yet another idea (Score:1, Funny)
Loaded? (Score:4, Informative)
(http://www.milliondollarscreenshot.com/)
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.
lol no... (Score:1)
(http://www.thecodergeek.com/blog/ | Last Journal: Friday April 01 2005, @01:21PM)
And the censored list... (Score:3, Interesting)
(http://www.theoryint.com/)
domain name (Score:1)
(http://slashdot.org/)
.eu doesn't stand for European ... (Score:5, Informative)
(http://www.milksucks.com/ | Last Journal: Monday September 15 2003, @12:30PM)
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_dom
First Domain? (Score:2)
"firstpost.eu" still seems to be available...
grep words (Score:2)
% grep -iE 'eu$' words
Are they going to give back .de, .uk, .fr, etc? (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://www.cavebear.com/)
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
At the recent ICANN meeting in Vancouver there were demands for names such as
Re:Are they going to give back .de, .uk, .fr, etc? (Score:4, Informative)
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
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.
Must be running low (Score:2)
(http://slashdot.org/)
www.slashdot.com.us.technology
That sure will keep cybersquatters busy guessing.
Ok, I'll add a few that are probably already said (Score:1)
excuse.eu
thank.eu
Okay, I'm done...
list of words and phrases ending in EU !! (Score:2, Interesting)
(http://www.passingnotes.com/ | Last Journal: Wednesday December 14 2005, @01:08PM)
Hmm lets see here... (Score:1)
(http://www.brandnewreality.com/)
$ grep 'eu$'
adieu
lieu
Mathieu
Hmmm, not alot here to work with. Well maybe next TLD.
....and um... (Score:1)
(http://demosthenes2010.com/blog | Last Journal: Sunday November 27 2005, @10:17AM)
Registrars? (Score:2)
(http://blog.bfccomputing.com/ | Last Journal: Tuesday August 07, @06:50PM)
Re:.eu does not matter (Score:4, Funny)
surely you meant co. u k?
Re:Will the EU country codes be moved into it? (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:.eu does not matter (Score:1)
Re:only EU busineeses and people can register? (Score:1)