Domain Registration Related News
.eu moves forward
July 2004
The newest top level domain .eu is slowly
moving forward towards introduction sometime in
late 2004. As you can probably guess, .eu is a new
top level domain designed for use by residents and
businesses in EU member states. It will be the
first domain space that is not purely generic,
like .com, and not specific to a single country,
like .uk, although to allow its introduction the
international standards body has effectively
designated it as a country - Euro-sceptics take
note!
The introduction of .eu has taken some time, with
the domain originally being announced some years
ago. In May 2003, Brussels-based EURid - an entity
made up of a consortium of the Swedish, Italian
and Belgium country code naming authorities - were
appointed by the European Commission to run the
new domain with responsibility for appointing
registration service providers and other technical
issues.
EURid are currently in the final stages of
contractual negotiations with the Commission and
are thrashing out the details of the Public Policy
Rules (PPR) for .eu which are being drafted in
consultation with the Member States.
Once that's finalised they must then go about
getting the technical aspects of the domain
arranged by negotiating another agreement with the
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and
Numbers (ICANN) - the authority that oversees the
introduction of new domains into the domain name
system's "root".
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