Domain Registration Related News
Commission publishes rules concerning .eu
domain name
May 2004
The European Commission has published the
public policy rules concerning the implementation
and functions of the ".eu" top level domain in the
EU Official Journal.
The ".eu" domain is intended to provide a European
internet identity for companies and citizens,
comparable to ".org" or ".com". This regulation is
a further step towards the commercial availability
of ".eu" names. It sets out public policy rules
for a wide range of issues including eligibility,
requests for domain name registration,
accreditation of registrars, provisions for
languages, reservation of geographical and
geopolitical names, registration of names
corresponding to prior rights, and a dispute
resolution procedure.
Last year, the European Commission designated
EURID - the European Registry for Internet Domains
- as the registry for the TLD. The three founder
members of EURID are currently managing the
country codes ".be" (Belgium), ".it" (Italy) and
".se" (Sweden). Two associated members are from
acceding countries.
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