.eu Opens for Registration 168
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?"
Three Phases (Score:5, Insightful)
"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]
Re:Three Phases (Score:2)
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]
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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
Re:Three Phases - .SCO for Scotland (Score:2)
There's also going to be a
Definitely seems to be a cash cow - taking this to the natural progression, there will also have to be a
Re:Three Phases - .SCO for Scotland (Score:2)
From your link:
"In the long run I would like to see a three-letter code '.sco' which would give Scotland its own global address.
With respect, why should Scotland get it's own TLD? Because it's historically it's own culture and was conquered by the British? I'm not flaming -- but really, where the heck do we draw the line? Should every single American state get it's own TLD? American states arguably have as much (if not more?) autonomy then Scotland does. I'm sure some of my friends from the South w
Re:Three Phases - .SCO for Scotland (Score:2)
Uh, British is a term that encompasses everyone in the whole country (Wales, England, Scotland etc..). In terms of being conquered, it was the Scottish highland chiefs who sold out their land rights to English sheep farmers, and then moved down to London. Thus premeditating the Highland Clearances.
Scottish MP's like doing things to enhance Scottishness - it keeps the nationalists h
Haha, not now! (Score:4, Funny)
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.
Re:Haha, not now! (Score:1)
barstards!
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my domain (Score:5, Funny)
fuck.eu
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Chances are they've never heard the phrase in their lives. Apparently "sacre bleu" (sacred blue, if you can't figure that out) is an obscure religious-themed swear they used to use in Quebec. And only in Quebec, and only a long time ago.
Somehow it got into the American public consciousness and was associated with the French....
Re:my domain (Score:1)
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cialisfor.eu? I've been getting ads for that site in my inbox for months...
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Good for icky stuff (Score:1, Funny)
Who are... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Who are... (Score:3, Funny)
Heeeeeeey, Youuuuuuuu! (Score:2)
ramsex.eu reserved (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:ramsex.eu reserved (Score:4, Interesting)
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.
Re:ramsex.eu reserved (Score:1)
A particularly funny case of which is the word infart which means drive-in.
Re:ramsex.eu reserved (Score:2)
So THAT'S why my Sweedish 6 speed bike always had people making fun of me...
Re:ramsex.eu reserved (Score:3, Funny)
Well, I pity the countries where this is illegal.
In which civilized country can't you even utter these words legitimately?
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Finally, every slashdotter's first-posting skills will come in handy!
Re:ramsex.eu reserved (Score:2)
An EU-sponsored sex ram program... Wow.
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1000-jaehriges-reich
1000jaehrigesreich
3-reich
3reich
4-reich
4reich
nazi-deutschland
nazi-reich
nazideutschland
nazireich
But why not simply nazi.eu?
appropriate. (Score:3, Funny)
Say it aloud "goatce.eu"
a Yahoo! report on the EU domains (Score:4, Informative)
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stupid registration restrictions. (Score:4, Funny)
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Re:stupid registration restrictions. (Score:1)
Who thinks... (Score:5, Funny)
Then the GNAA or some old people in Korea will use it instead.
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Yahoo in Russian (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Yahoo in Russian (Score:1)
An alternative (Score:2)
Yahoo.eu reads like a profanity in Russian... I wonder if they'll register.
Yah.eu?
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).
Comment removed (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Already almost 100.000 (Score:5, Funny)
In domains as in life - often requested, rarely granted.
Re:Already almost 100.000 (Score:2)
sex.eu was asked for 204 times
This shows that many applicants did not even read the rules!
I thought... (Score:2)
Domain name claims by me (Score:5, Funny)
2. p.eu
3. howar.eu
4. ach.eu
5. InSovietRussiaWeGoogl.eu
6. AndNowImSpent.eu
That's quite a list (Score:2)
1. aeiou.eu
2. p.eu
3. howar.eu
4. ach.eu
5. InSovietRussiaWeGoogl.eu
6. AndNowImSpent.eu
wh.eu
Yet another idea (Score:1, Funny)
Loaded? (Score:4, Informative)
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)
And the censored list... (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:And the censored list... (Score:2, Informative)
domain name (Score:1)
.eu doesn't stand for European ... (Score:5, Informative)
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
Re:.eu doesn't stand for European ... (Score:2)
Sounds like BS.
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.
I thought the same applied to trademarks. i.e. Swiss companies won't have a problem because th
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)
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:2)
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.
Re:Are they going to give back .de, .uk, .fr, etc? (Score:2)
Not yet!
>We have no equivalents to the FBI, CIA or NSA, nor indeed many of the other US national agencies.
The US originally didn't have those, but then the feds got power hungry...
Re:Are they going to give back .de, .uk, .fr, etc? (Score:2)
I thought that was one of the similarities
.cat (Score:2)
At least officially, the domain is not for Catalonia entities, but for Catalan-language entities, either from Catalonia, Valencia, Balearic Islands, Andorra, French Catalonia or even Italian Alghero.
Re:Are they going to give back .de, .uk, .fr, etc? (Score:2, Informative)
It is not. It is a is an intergovernmental and supranational union [wikipedia.org] of states.
Re:Are they going to give back .de, .uk, .fr, etc? (Score:2)
No, the EU is a confederation, where each member state retains sovereignty.
the United States (.us)
Why doesn't the US relinquish the TLDs
overall sovreignty split between an overall federal government and several compon
Re:Are they going to give back .de, .uk, .fr, etc? (Score:2)
The States of the US may not be independant, but they do have certain attributes that are supposed to make them nearly so. They were *supposed* to have nearly full authority, except where the Federal was allo
Re:Are they going to give back .de, .uk, .fr, etc? (Score:2)
The US wo
Re:Are they going to give back .de, .uk, .fr, etc? (Score:2)
The powers that are given to the Federal are reserved to the Federal. It supercedes all lower levels in that regard. The supreme law is the Constitution, which the government *can't* violate (in theory). Then there are things for just the Federal, and which the States are not to interfere with, and then everything else is State. The Consitution says thing
Re:Are they going to give back .de, .uk, .fr, etc? (Score:2)
BTW - that the EU is not a country is why so many people, especially in the US, were fighting the decision to create the ".eu" TLD. The member countries are sovereign, not bound into the EU such as the States are to the Federal in the US, and have their own TLDs.
Why is that so objectionable? We have
Re:Are they going to give back .de, .uk, .fr, etc? (Score:2)
Must be running low (Score:2)
www.slashdot.com.us.technology
That sure will keep cybersquatters busy guessing.
list of words and phrases ending in EU !! (Score:2, Interesting)
Registrars? (Score:2)
Re:.eu does not matter (Score:4, Funny)
surely you meant co. u k?
Re:.eu does not matter (Score:1)
Re:Will the EU country codes be moved into it? (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Will the EU country codes be moved into it? (Score:1)
WHY DO THEY HATE AMERICA?
Re:Will the EU country codes be moved into it? (Score:1)
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Re:only EU busineeses and people can register? (Score:1)