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EU domain plans foiled by London company
News The European Union voted last month to approve the creation of the first level domain .eu by a non-profit organisation which would then offer it to institutions, private users and corporations within the European Union.
[June 7, 2000, 10:34]
EC signs deal for '.eu' domain
News The European Commission on Wednesday signed a contract with a consortium of three European registries to run the proposed .eu top-level domain. During the two-month sunrise period, organisations who can prove ownership of a trademark registered in...
[October 14, 2004, 15:05]
Dot-eu domain is ready to roll
News With just under a week to go until companies can register for a dot-eu domain name, the European Commission is preparing for a rush of registrations when the new top-level domain goes live. Information society and media commissioner Viviane Reding...
[December 2, 2005, 16:00]
European Union approves creation of .eu domain
News The EC's Council of Ministers voted that the new domain be available to institutions, private users and corporations within Europe. It is hoped that the creation of this new domain will consolidate the identity of pan-European businesses and boost...
[May 11, 2000, 16:30]
EC signs deal for '.eu' domain
Talkback With the .NET redelgation, ICANN seems bound to wait until that is resolved to put new TLDs in the root, perhaps even .EU. See also www.eugrab.com
[November 14, 2004, 18:40]
EC signs deal for '.eu' domain
Talkback You'll find that there is actually a DRP for the .eu TLD, but it's buried under lots of links at the EURID site. This blog also contains information about it: http://davehalltechhack.blogspot.com/2004/10/politically-correcteu.html
[October 14, 2004, 16:03]
Doors thrown open to .eu
News The .eu domain is now open to all applicants within the European Union who wish to register web addresses. So far registrar Eurid, has received more than 300,000 applications for addresses with the domain and Marc Van Wesemael, managing director of...
[April 7, 2006, 14:15]
EU readies itself for .eu sunrise
News The European Union has announced that registrations for .eu domain names will begin later this year. The proposed cost for a domain name registration will be €10 plus VAT, which .eu administrator Eurid hopes to lower to €5 plus VAT in the second year.
[October 10, 2005, 17:05]
Gold rush expected for .eu sunrise period
News The sunrise period designed to give European trademark owners first pick at relevant .eu domain names is expected to attract a gold rush of registrations not seen since the days of the dot-com boom. Although EURid, the organisation that will run...
[October 20, 2004, 14:05]
No sex.eu please, we're British
News When the .eu domain goes live, now expected to happen sometime late next year, it is likely that the generic domain names will be among the most hotly contested. Sex.eu is a prime example, said experts on Wednesday, of a domain name that is likely...
[October 20, 2004, 17:50]
Registrars accused of stockpiling 74,000 .eu domains
News EURid, the organisation that administers the .eu top-level domain, has suspended 74,000 domain names after launching a lawsuit against 400 American registrars for "breach of contract". The organisation said on Monday that abusing the registration...
[July 24, 2006, 17:20]
Stockpiling of .eu domains can't be stopped
News A registrar and reseller of .eu domain names has denied accusations that his business has operated unfairly by stockpiling over a thousand three-letter domain names and charging customers over a thousand pounds to buy each one.
[August 9, 2006, 13:55]
ICANN signs in .eu
News ICANN, the international body in charge of managing Internet domains, has given the official go-ahead to the creation of a European top level domain, .eu. Whatever the reason, Marc Van Wesemael, DG of Eurid, revealed: "The insertion of .eu into the...
[March 24, 2005, 16:20]
UK firms lagging on.eu
Talkback I recently applied for a .eu domain name during the sunrise period and provided the necessary documentation to PWC. Thank you for pre-registering your .eu domain name request with Network Solutions**.
[March 8, 2006, 22:11]
Man accused of £1.5m Web scams
News Peterborough Crown Court was told by the prosecution that Peter Francis-Macrae had tricked thousands of people into sending him money to register a .eu domain name on their behalf. According to The Times, at its height the .eu scam brought in £200...
[October 12, 2005, 10:40]
UK firms lagging on.eu
News Damian Schmidt, CEO of rival domain name registrar Strato, said: "We think that in Great Britain the .eu domain just isn't a topic which is interesting people. Schmidt said he isn't sure whether that is for political reasons, or whether UK...
[February 23, 2006, 15:50]
ICANN drops plan to approve .XXX
News But according to reports from Vancouver, there is speculation that the EU put pressure on ICANN not to approve .XXX. The EU is pushing to reduce the US influence over the Internet. Attempts to create a domain name to handle adult online content...
[December 2, 2005, 12:25]
Bill Gates 'can't stop spam'
News The survey also found that 38 percent of respondents didn't believe that the EU anti-spam directive would have any success in reducing unwanted emails. This is not a surprise because research has shown that the majority of spam comes from outside...
[April 30, 2004, 12:35]
No sex.eu please, we're British
Talkback I am not that sure that "sex.eu" could be a valid domain name registration. In the EC regulation building a framework for ".eu" registrations, the article 18 states that a court can block the registration of name contrary to the public policy...
[October 25, 2004, 23:10]
Who needs .asia domain?
Talkback Then let's register .europe (if .eu is too short). I wonder, who needs .asia domain? I cannot imagine, what would be useful for Microsoft.asia? Toyota.asia? Or perhaps Microsoft.southamerica, Dell.australiaandnewzealand, Coca-Cola.africa.
[October 9, 2007, 7:56]
